2 RV's to Draper UT

... spending the night at Laramie WY

Breakfast is ... crowded. A lot of things at this Quality Inn scream Super 8 and this is one of them. Also the food. Only hot food was the gravy for biscuits and gravy. I was only planning on yogurt today and BB brought her 'lite food' from home. Yogurt was warm (?,) like the fridge was not turned on. But they only opened breakfast an hour ago so it should be OK.

Looking at the fields where all the hail damage was there is a lot of corn that is still growing from the '1st crop.' Some of it now has been sprayed/killed off. Other fields are just letting it grow. Out of all those miles of fields I only saw one where it was replanted as corn and that corn is still a few feet shorter than the rows they left in the field.

1st stop is the rest area by Grand Island.

2nd stop is the Loves for fuel and food. As we are crossing the freeway bridge someone is flashing their headlights at me. It is KD and her husband from yesterday, just leaving.

At Loves it is the same cashier that shut our pumps off last time because I gave her my expired :) drivers license, so I give them my current one. And when I check out they are able to combine the two pumps.

We look at shelf food and Subway but decide on McD's. 25 minute wait for 'fast food.' The line/list was longer when we left than when we got there.

3rd stop is rest area near Sidney. BB makes reservations from here because there is little cell service at the Port of Entry. This time we parked next to the cars because down where we usually parked, the trucks had parked in the travel lane and I didn't think there was room for cars to get between us. But by the time we leave a pickup and trailer parked where we would have and we could get through. With about a foot to spare.

4th stop is the POE for our permits. No line. Quick in and out. We follow a officer out. They are doing a complete inspection on a truck next to us.

Then was I am in gear there is a transporter RV pulls up next to me. It is our 'new' company. Their placards have both names on them. Right behind him is a cement mixer, they park in the same spot even though there are lots of places open, I assume they were running together.

No major traffic in Cheyenne because of the big event.

5th and final stop was at the Sinclair in Laramie for Papa Johns. As I pull in I see KD and husband pulling in to a place down the street. We go in the store but there are no pizza's on the shelf. It is only 4 PM local, 5 PM for us. It will only take eight minutes so I order a pizza and we wait.

'Jim?" a lady walks up to me. It is KD, she walked across the street of find us and invite us over. We declined, we had already ordered food. It would have been interesting, maybe our paths will cross again.

Once we have our food we head to the hotel, the Comfort Inn. It is $200 tonight so we use rewards points. We could have pushed on to Rawlins but that would be a long day. Maybe if we hadn't lost the hour yesterday for the drug test.

Loadboard

US - 158

IA - 34

MN - 5

From here we have 400 miles to go. One more fuel fill and then add a couple of gallons in Green River.

The closest Choice hotels near Draper do not get raving reviews so we are looking at maybe the Best Western tomorrow night.