2 RV's to Draper UT

... spending the night at Grand Island NE

We pull out a little after 7 AM.

1st stop is just south of town at an exit to call for our trips. We get them.

2nd stop is at Albert Lea at the Loves/Wendy's for breakfast. I should have checked my receipt, I did not get what I ordered but we were not going back in. There was a line for ordering food and a line after we order. We could see from the register that they were cooking up 'real' eggs so that is a plus. (I got spicy sausage instead of bacon)

3rd stop was the shipper. They are not working today. So likely they are not working the next two weeks. Some of our larger shippers take two weeks off at the 4th of July and Christmas for a plant shut down. If that's the case there will not be anything new put on the load board for IA for the next two weeks. Good time to take a vacation.

... while we are at the shipper we see that our 'rental dispatcher' has put six trips out of MN. :( After we have committed to a trip. Later today he adds more trips. That was what we spent most of our summer doing last year was his trips and we used our personal car as a chase car because rental cars were so hard to get.

4th stop was the Loves in Ellsworth for fuel and food/Hardees. Another long line for food. After we had ordered and were waiting for our food I noticed someone order and then grab a bag of food as he walked past. That didn't look right. Then after we got our food I noticed that someone ahead of us was still waiting. Before I said anything the person from earlier came back up with the bag of food he had grabbed and said it wasn't his ... by now he had had the food for 5-10 minutes. The person whos food it was grabbed it and left (tired of waiting?)

I had a Frisco burger. 1/3#. Way too much food.

5th stop was the rest area near Adair.

We see a few other transporters today. No one else at the shipper, but we do see a cement truck, dump truck, vac truck, plus stacks of trucks.

6th stop was the Loves in Omaha for fuel. 102 degrees. It stayed 100+ for a few hours.

From here we decide where to stop for the night. We will run a little later tonight. We want to drop on Thursday and we have to beat a 3:30 close and pick up the rental car before we drop. The Comfort Inn in York is now a Quality Inn so it is a Quality Inn either way. We pick Grand Island.

This time I counted. There were (still) 12 irrigation circles east of York that were rolled and 10 west of York. The re-planted crops are up so I am thinking that SOME of the circles may have been fixed by now ???

7th stop was the Bosselmans/Pilot in Grand Island for food. All three fast food places are open today. Krispy Chicken ... I ask. All food is 'cajun' :( Little Caesars does not have any food on the shelf so we would have to order and wait. BB also looks at the shelf food that we had last time. She was hoping for soup but one bucket was missing and the other was empty. They did have Cinnabon's that is not listed on the signs outside.

But we end up at Subway. They have a new menu and I did not get what I wanted. I did not notice they had not put the bacon on the sandwich and I asked them about the 'garlic' part of the sandwich and they said it was part of the chicken. No ... I looked online and the garlic is one of their eight sauces. Twice today. 

then to the Quality Inn.

Load board

US - 173

IA - 60/58

MN - 11

Tomorrow we will go 500-600 miles, we will decide at the 500 mile mark. There are only hotels about every 100 miles in WY. Plus we have a few fuel stops and one Port of Entry to slow us down.