2 RV's to Draper UT

... spending the night at Sidney NE

Breakfast - eggs and sausage.

No slow downs for 'rush hour' traffic on a Saturday AM. Glad I went back out last night and got my jacket. It is down in the 50's this AM. I kept my jacket on until noon when the sun came out and had my heat on most of that time.

1st stop was Underwood at the rest area.

It's been raining this AM. I kept the cruise on, BB had not. When we got to the sharp curve in Omaha there was a semi rolled over in the oncoming traffic lanes. The van type trailer had something in it that was bagged, but the stuff from those bags that split were now being cleaned up with a front end loader.

I'd been following semi's that were going the posted, 65 mph until we got to the curve. Some of them must have gotten spooked. After the accident they stayed at 45 mph until I passed them and I never saw them again.

Somewhere after that, there was a semi in the oncoming ditch that had been coming from that way, went into the median, then back up on their freeway and must have cranked it too hard because they ended up in the far side of their ditch going backwards.

2nd stop is Aurora at Loves. Here we fuel in front and use two pumps. Busy place, I had seen where the empty pumps were from the street and took a different entrance. The person I followed off the freeway was still waiting for a pump when we were done.

When I asked the fuel desk to turn on two pumps they said they could not do that ... to which I said "This is the first station in two years that would not do that" ... That was about the time he saw that I had a company card and turned both of them on. This place 'could not put them on one transaction.'

We had Arby's. BB was done eating in 15 minutes and if I had thrown the rest of my sandwich we could have been back on the road then.

Transporters ... one of ours past us. We met a small 'super sucker' truck as we were leaving Aurora Loves. A semi fire truck parked next to us at a rest area, but he was gone before we got back to our RV's. And there was a four door pickup chassis that seemed to be stopping every 50 miles either on the side of the road, gas station or rest area. Plus a few other RV's. Not city buses.

3rd stop was Brady at the rest area. From here BB made the reservation for the hotel. We would have time to get to Cheyenne but no reason to.

4th and final stop was the Comfort Inn in Sidney. But first we go to the Loves to fuel. Usually this place is a ghost town but tonight there isn't a single pump that has an opening on two sides. So BB parks behind me and I fuel first and then she pulls ahead and fuels. Doing that is saving $1.25. Not sure how long we will keep doing that.

Then we go across the street to the hotel and check in. I ask about cookies but they say their oven is being replaced. Once we check in, we call the Mexican place across the freeway. I now always ask the city location, every since I called in an order to Denver and tried to pick it up in Sidney. This time BB and I split an order. And we cleaned up the platter, and were full.

We are not doing quite as good on fuel as the last trips, we had a head wind for a while and maybe fuel prices have changed more since Monday that on prior trips.

It is still light when we are done eating and is not in the 100's so we go for a walk. Forecast is to be in the 30's in the AM :) Walking down the street, BB says "It looks like you forgot ... I forgot to shut the windows of my RV." ... and she forgot to lock it. Glad we took that walk. Just around the building, the only sidewalk is in front of our building and there are trucks on the rest of the roads.

Loadboard (weekend)

US - 153

IA - 23

Today was only 4 stops, tomorrow will likely be 7. Once we get to Wyoming we either stop every 100 miles or every 200, so 100 it is. We will fill, top off, once more and then add fuel in UT if we need more to get to the drop.

Nothing added to the load boards over the weekend so nothing to even look at for options.