2 RV's to Draper UT

... spending the night at Lincoln NE

We have three plus days to do what we did in 2-1/2 last trip so we are not in a huge rush this AM. We shoot for 7 AM but get out closer to 8 AM. We have been unpacked for a while so we have to remember all the stuff we take with us.

Almost no slow down at the usual slow spots even though it is Friday AM rush hour.

1st stop is Northfield Flying J for gas. It is cheaper than closer to home but still $.40+ more than it will be in IA. (but we can't make it to IA and on 10 gallons it's not worth putting in just enough to get to IA.

Before we get off the freeway in IA, I see the tops of some corn over the ditch bank that looks ready bad. Then the hill lowers and I realize this is a bean field with lots of volunteer corn. So now I'm thinking that this corn looks better than some of the actual corn fields.

Still on the freeway we see what we think is a burnt out windmill. Very small at the top of the pole with a couple of long strands hanging almost strait down. I will try to get a picture on the way back if I think of it. BB saw online where one was hit by lightning and burnt out, could have been what happened here.

As we are coming into town, BB gets a text message to call the main off. We pretty much know that that means.

As soon as we are stopped, she does call. She needs to do a random drug test today. The closest place is closed on Fridays (?) so we will have to stop when we go through Des Moines.

2nd stop was the office to pick up our RV's. In and out in under an hour. No one in the yard picking up when we were there but there was someone in training. Looked at them a couple of times but didn't say anything to them.

We have enough fuel to get to our first Loves where we get cheater fuel. I was going to be close but the range usually goes up. These RV's only have <> 50 miles on them so the range is not very accurate. This time I did not gain much. Warning light had been on for a while and I had less than a gallon left when I got there.

3rd stop is the Loves in Ellsworth for fuel and food. The person here does not know how to put both pumps on one receipt which is what we are trying to do now.

Food was Hardee's. Both of us only ate half of our buns, we are trying to cut back on food and this place likes huge portions. For a while I wouldn't even eat here. Then I think their burgers were 1/3, 1/2 and 1#. I don't even need 1/4#. Even without half the bun it was still too much food. But good.

While we are eating, BB pulls up the location of the clinic and I am looking at it upside down. She still wants me to lead instead of using the GPS so off we go.

I do write down the address in case I need to look it up.

We get off at the correct exit, but the cross street I thought we were going to take goes into a business. The next cross street is further from the freeway than I was thinking. At that point I should done some re-thinking. Instead I still took a right when I got to the correct street. A couple of blocks down it dead ends into a park. BB makes a U-turn and heads back from where we came. We should have taken a left where we turned.

4th stop was the drug test. Between the off freeway and wait it took us about 45 minutes. We have the time, it just means less time in the hotel tonight. We are heading into the weekend so make our reservations from here.

As we pass the last rest area in IA there is an RV pulling out. And the same pickup with a motorcycle in the truck bed that was at the shipper this AM.

Within a few miles they pass us and it is one of ours.

5th stop is the Loves in Omaha. Later tonight we are wondering why we stop there for fuel. We have plenty to get to the next fuel stop and every stop charges us a fee. We are guessing at one point the fuel was enough cheaper that it paid to fill early. This place does try, and is able to combine our fuel receipts.

When I ask BB while we are fueling if she saw the RV at the rest area, she wondered if it was KD, someone who is very active on FaceBook. Her husband drives tow-away and I have been messaging her since the first of the year about driving. She had posted on the company group that she was hired on, but I'm not on the group anymore so I didn't know that.

7th stop is the Quality Inn in Lincoln. From there we call ahead for food at the Cracker Barrel. When we go to pick it up, we also buy a loto ticket for tonight for the billion dollar drawing.

Back at the hotel I message KD and it was them we saw. They are staying in York tonight so that tomorrow they can make it to Rawlins where the hotels are cheaper.

Loadboard

US - 176

IA - 47

MN - 5