220701 MN-ND
1 trash truck to Williston ND (delivered)... spending the night at home No alarm, OK breakfast. We head out by 8 AM (instead of 7:30) 1st stop is just west of Jamestown at the rest area. It hasn't been two hours yet but it has been 100 miles... and we are not ? in a rush. 2nd stop is in Fargo for Sc...
220630 MN-ND
1 trash truck to Williston ND (delivered)... spending the night at Jamestown ND At breakfast there is yogurt, waffles, one type of fruit, juice. I grab one yogurt and then I guess I must have stared at someone... "What? Is this your table" the person asked. 'No... just wondering where you got that f...
220629 MN-ND
1 trash truck to Williston ND... spending the night at Jamestown ND 6 AM alarm. Breakfast was not bacon, so I had a small omelette and a yogurt. We did pull out a couple of minutes early, long day ahead. 1st stop is at the MN rest area near Glenville. 2nd stop is at the shipper. Only three keys in o...
220628 NE-IA
1 trash truck to Guttenberg IA (Failed) 1 trash truck to Williston ND (Wednesday)... spending the night at Story City IA Breakfast was mussy eggs and good bacon. Plan was to be at the shipper at 8 AM and we were slow enough this AM that that is about the time we got there.... Just before their 8 AM...
220627 NE-IA
1 trash truck to Guttenberg IA (Tuesday)... spending the night at Gothenburg NE No timetable, no alarm. At 8:30 we head down for breakfast. There is still food but there are also 'No taking food from dining area' signs. So we only take what fits in our pockets, fruit cups and fruit... and carry our...
220626 MN-MO
1 trash truck to Springfield MO (delivered)... spending the night at Grandview MO BEEP - BEEP - BEEP - BEEP... it is 12 midnight and the fire alarm is going off. I get up and use the bathroom and go back to bed... BB gets up and looks out in the hall. People are leaving their rooms, others are looki...
220625 MN-MO
1 trash truck to Springfield MO... spending the night at Story City IA Change of plans due to someone else's illness. We are heading to MO today instead of Sunday. That will give us a half day head start on the trip and spit the miles over three days if the ride is too rough. We got that message abo...
220623 MN-MN
1 bus to White Bear Lake MN (canceled) 1 trash truck to Springfield MO (sometime over the weekend)... spending the night at home I got a call mid morning to move a bus to a shop from our storage lot. Before we got ready, I got another call saying that someone else had started the bus since the call...
220622 ND-MN
1 roll-off to Lake Elmo MN (delivered)... spending the night at home Alarm at 6 AM, breakfast at 7 AM. I just had yogurt. I am still stuffed from last night. 1st stop is the shipper in Fargo. There are only two new trucks and mine has a sold sign in it. The person I need is at the service desk when...
220621 MN-ND
1 mixer to Fargo ND (delivered) 1 roll-off to Lake Elmo MN (Wednesday)... spending the night at Fargo ND Wasn't expecting this. It did end up raining overnight and the temps dropped into the low 70's. At those temps I could have gotten out in the garden long enough to do some planting. But did not r...
220620 MN-MN
1 vac truck to Hopkins MN (delivered) 1 mixer to Fargo ND (Tuesday) 1 roll-off to Lake Elmo MN (Wednesday)... spending the night at home Dispatch had asked what time I wanted to come in so I said 9 AM. That puts us behind the traffic and any rush at the office. The place last night does not serve br...
220617 NY-IL
1 city bus to Chicago IL (breakdown)... spending the night at home 'Limited breakfast' still. So I had yogurt and juice. We hit the road a little after 7:30. 1st stop was the Flying J in Waterloo so that I could make phone calls. First I call my local dispatch to let them know I will be in town and...
220616 NY-IL
1 city bus to Chicago IL (breakdown)... spending the night at North Liberty IA I woke about a half hour before the alarm went off, BB woke up five minutes before the alarm went off. We both slept much better than the prior night. We head down for breakfast but they do not have the usual hot food and...
220615 NY-IL
1 city bus to Chicago IL (breakdown)... spending the night at Ashtabula OH We both woke about about 8 AM, dispatch had messaged me about a half hour before to ask if my bus had been picked up. I didn't want to 'beep' them with a message in the middle of the night so I had let them know I would be up...
220614 NY-IL
1 city bus to Chicago IL (breakdown)... spending the night at Albany NY... it is after midnight and we just checked into the hotel. The bus will be hauled back to the shipper and we are deadheading home in a rental car. (The following was written three days later) We head out of the hotel just befor...
220613 NY-IL
1 city bus to Chicago IL... spending the night at Plattsburgh No breakfast today. We are going to be eating 'brunch' with family at 10 AM. We pull out of the hotel around 9 AM. This will all be roads we have been on before, just 50 mph max. 1st stop is the Creek House Diner. Our family is a 'known'...
220612 VT
non-work... spending the night at Rutland VT Ate breakfast at the hotel. Went for a half hour walk on the city streets. Drove to White River Junction for a memorial service. Ate after the service. Small service, less than 100. No one other than those pre-booked had any comments. Drove back to the ho...
220611 VT
non-work... spending the night at Rutland VT No reason to get up and going early so we do not. My breakfast is the carrot cake from a couple of nights ago, and a yogurt. We do pull out at 8:30 AM. 1st stop is '40 steps,' we are early so we find a place to park, half the spots are still empty. Once w...
220610 IA-NY
1 RV to Syracuse NY (delivered) 1 RV to Kingston NY (delivered)... spending the night at Warwick RI We slept in, sort of. We got up based on central time. Yogurt today, it's been a while. We pull out aast 8:30 local. 1st stop is the Sunoco a few blocks away. I need three gallons of gas to get to the...
220609 IA-NY
1 RV to Syracuse NY (delivered) 1 RV to Kingston NY... spending the night at Glenmont NY Breakfast, two egg patties and a sausage. And apple juice, the OJ was out. It has been raining overnight and will be again as soon as we get down the road. But as we are loading up all is dry. BB referred to thi...
220608 IA-NY
2 RV's to NY... spending the night at Hamburg NY Breakfast, eggs and sausage. Left out at 7:30. Someone had parked cross-ways in front of us so we would have had to back out instead of pull thru but he left just before us. Not much for traffic this AM. OK, there was traffic, just no major slow downs...
220607 IA-NY
2 RV's to NY... spending the night at Ottawa IL This AM we are out of the house within an hour of when the alarm goes off. 1st stop is in Northfield at the Flying J for fuel. Their high sign said one price, their low sign said another price. We paid the higher price. 2nd stop was Wendy's in Medford...
220606 IA-NY
2 RV's to NY (Tuesday)... spending the night at home 8 AM I call and we get two RV's to NY. BB will drop hers in Syracuse and then we will pick up a car. Cars are cheaper there than anywhere east of there. Mine will be dropped in Kingston, likely on Friday. Last trip I had forgotten my phone cord so...
220605 IA-NY
2 RV's to NY (maybe Tuesday)... spending the night at home When we were out and about today, within an hour there were two different cars that passed me and came over on me when they were half way past me. Ours is a bright red car so it can't be that they couldn't see me. We ended up making reservat...