1 Straight truck to Coralville IA (delivered)

2 RV's to Draper UT

... spending the night at Ankeny IA

:) I'm still alive :)

BB said yesterday that I would get food poisoning if I ate the day out cheese curds. I didn't. I had eaten about a 1/4th of them the night I got them, then another 1/4th for breakfast yesterday (they were in the fridge overnight) then I ate most of the last half of them late yesterday afternoon while driving.

Breakfast today - omelette and sausage.

Before 8 AM we walk over to get our rental car. Then come back and load our stuff from the hotel and from the truck into it.

Opps. When we are heading south on I-380 I can see trucks on a new bridge. But then the freeway re-routes back to the construction lanes. All I see is a sign that says I-80 Des Moines 1 Mile. Then at the last minute I see an exit 0-A and 0-B but I am in the wrong lane. When I get to where the clover leaf used to be, it is gone. Now it is six miles to the next exit.

When I get off the freeway/express way, I decide to stay off and take the side streets. Just like yesterday AM, I use almost -0- fuel for the last 30 miles in the AM. So I do not add any more fuel.

1st stop is the drop. As soon as I have the attention of someone at the place, I make sure they know I am not returning a 'rental.' They understand and walk me back to the shop. He knows about the truck. 1st he says where I can park it and then leads me back to the truck, signs my paperwork and drives away. No inspection. (BB is sitting in the car and can hear the workers in the shop talk about the truck as I drive in :) )

2nd stop is in Evansdale at the Flying J to use the restroom. It is a known, we stopped here yesterday.

3rd stop is in Clear Lake for food at Culvers. I have a malt and 'the smallest burger you have.' I meant the kids burger but it is not listed on their menu. I got a quarter pounder. Too much,

4th stop is at the shipper in Forest City to pickup our car.

5th stop is back at Clear Lake at the Pilot for fuel for the rental car. That is where we switch luggage from one car to the other, under their canopy. It was raining when we were in Forest City. This place is really empty now. First they took out the Denny's years ago. Now in the last few months they took out the Subway.

6th stop is the rental car place in Mason City. Drop and go.

7th stop is back at the shipper in Forest City. It takes us an hour to do our inspections on the small class B vans. The lot looks empty after having 100's of RV's for the last couple of years.

8th stop is the Loves in Ellsworth. Today we decide to fuel with the big trucks so we get our fuel discount without going inside to pay. High speed pumps on a little tank, we over ran fuel on both RV's. What we did was I started the pump, then when I was done, I laid the nozzle down and pulled ahead so BB could fuel. So we do not have an exact dollar amount on each RV for fuel.

9th and final stop was the Sleep Inn in Ankeny. Long time since we have stayed here. It used to be a regular. As soon as we check in, we order from the Outback next door. I order soup. I am still full from lunch. BB orders chicken and a salad, or a chicken salad.

Load board

US - 163

IA - 24

We are going to try to do 550 miles the next couple of days to make up for a short day today. It looks like we will do couple of almost 150 mile legs, which is fine with me. Plan is to make it to Sidney tomorrow night.

Glad we grabbed when we did. Down to 24 RV's out of IA. Only two pairs. The pair to WV there is no way out, close. The other pair is to MI, pretty short.

Nothing heading back this way from the west so we will see if anything shows up on Monday.