2 RV's to Draper UT

... spending the night at Sandy UT

Breakfast - Western omelettes and ring bacon/sausage (?) The person ahead of me took the last omelette so I went to the front desk to make sure they were making more, they were. Good, but a lot of food for breakfast.

We rolled out about 7:30 local. Temp was 39 degree's when BB got up. No frost but lots of dew on the windows. We need to start parking when the sun will hit the windshields when it comes up. But soon we will be rolling before sun up. :(

1st stop of the Port of Entry in WY. This time the person asked me a lot of questions. I guess she wasn't assuming anything. They were all on topic. Usually they only ask if it is an RV, and I need $20.

2nd stop was the Loves in Laramie for 'final fill' of fuel. There was a person standing next to a very old Nisan pickup camper, 40 years old or so. He was waving his empty fuel can at everyone that drove past.

One of our drivers stopped and talked to BB as she was heading into the store. I was fueling and didn't talk to him. There was also someone from another company camped in the parking lot here with their RV.

We fueled in the auto islands today both times. Fuel would have been cheaper at a different station in the truck islands but the difference was about $1. I get enough of the trucks blowing their horns at me on the highways.

3rd stop was the TA/Subway in Rawlins. A bus had passed us a few miles before the exit and when we pulled in here the people were just getting off. We expected a long line at either the rest room or Subway. Luckily most went for the sit down Country Pride Restaurant. There were three people ahead of us in line a Subway and it still took a while. Seemed only one person had been out front helping people and they had to go find the others when the line formed. They were out of a lot of stuff today. Turkey, that was what BB wanted. Also out of peppers, mayo, cookies and a few other things.

Weather was nice so we ate outside by our RV's. Someone walked over and asked the price and a few other questions while we ate.

Traffic/Trucks were thick today.

I don't often look over at drivers unless I know they are a transporter ... but I happened to notice one truck driver waved at me as he went by, twice.

Also had a trucker blow his horn at me ... I was in the left lane, closely following another truck up a hill. The trucker on the right blew his horn at me. Then pulled in behind me as soon as there was a couple of feet between his bumper and mine. There was room in front of where he had been so I pulled into the left lane ... and so did he ??? He followed me a ways before passing. When he got about three truck lengths ahead of me he stayed there for the next half hour or so. Not sure why he didn't want me passing him.

Later there was another trucker who blew his horn at me, he was in the left lane, I was in the right. I'd been in the left for a while and he'd been in the right lane a while

Not sure what happened when we were coming down one of the big hills, I was in the middle lane and there were slow trucks in the right lane ... one of those trucks hits the shoulder up against the concrete wall. It looked like the driver ahead of him had locked his breaks up and the 2nd driver couldn't stop fast enough. I stayed away from those two.

4th stop was in Green River at the Loves for more fuel. BB wants to put in four more gallons. I hadn't planned on putting in any but do put in two gallons. Right now my range just about gets me there and last time I gained 50 miles range from here to the drop.

5th stop is at the rest area in Evanston. The white buffalo are laying in almost the same spots as last time.

UT scale is closed, for us. The line of trucks must have gotten to long so the close it until the line is gone. That saved us a fraction of a gallon of fuel, slowing down, idling and speeding up.

6th and final stop is the Best Western in Sandy. Last time BB had looked at the reviews for the Choice hotels and decided to stay here instead. Since then she has looked at the hotels we stay at often and they also get those kinds of reviews :)

The mall food places closed before we got here. We had thought about going back to the Greek place, but we had both seen signs for a place across the street. That would be a four minute walk instead of a 15 minute walk.

Legend's, we split a patty melt and BB got veggies and I got potato soup. Very, very good soup. I might just get a bowl of soup next time we are here.

Today when we were coming down the hill from Evanston to Salt Lake, there was a pickup pulling a boat that had passed me, and then pulled in front of me and onto the shoulder. No problem for me, I just had to slow down a little. But before they got stopped, it threw up a rock and put a chip in BB's windshield. No out of pocket $ but still a downer.

Tomorrow ...

We will drop off before noon. Our east coast dispatchers start two hours before our time zone so at 6 AM local we should be looking at the load board.

Plan B is just to head home in the rental car.