2 RV's to Draper UT (delivered)
... spending the night at Council Bluffs IA
Yogurt for breakfast.
We pull out at 8:30 local.
1st stop is still in town. Cheap gas at a convenience store here in Laramie. Busy place but people get in and out quickly.
2nd stop the Loves in Sidney for the rest room. The east bound rest area is still under construction. It is a complete over haul, not sure if it will be a rest area when it re-opens. No signage yet.
3rd stop is in North Platte at the Dunkin's for our free food from our carrier. We each get a sandwich and a donut.
It is driver appreciation week this week. We missed the call for their daily meeting yesterday because we were delivering. Today we were still in WY and we lost the call so missed most of it. A few hours later they had another call. This one we took. The first 11 minutes were commercials for the companies that donated to the cause ... at which point we hung up. So not sure if there was a point to the 2nd call or not.
Sights ...
We were just about to Cheyenne when a coyote came up to the road and stood on the shoulder, before turning around and running away from the highway.
Wish I would have gotten pictures of the corn fields near exit 101/western NE. Not even enough to make a windrow, it would have to be chopped standing.
We did see someone picking corn. It's been years, but this was in a seed corn field so that is likely the way they still do it.
Platte River is just about dry in some places. No weeds growing in the river bed and the ground was still wet so it was easy to see how wide the river usually is.
On the way west, BB and I both noticed a 'chuck wagon' along side of a 'covered wagon' with a horse nearby. BB saw another wagon that I didn't see, I saw a person fixing a fence that she didn't see. There are still cowboys riding the range that we see once in a while.
4th stop is in Wood River at the Pilot for fuel. Next cheap fuel is in north Des Moines tomorrow.
No trips out of UT, CO, NE, WY today on the load board. There was one from Grand Jct to Casper. Last time we did this trip we did go through Grand Jct after taking a walk near SLC where we saw the moose. IF, if we had done that routine this trip we would have been in Grand Jct today. Oh well, no work heading how this trip.
5th and final stop is a Comfort Inn in Council Bluff's. It is the cheapest and furthest before Des Moines another hour away. This time BB had not looked at reviews. Our review is that next time we look it will have skipped the down grade to Quality Inn and gone directly to EcnoLodge, the lowest of the Choice brands. This place is not being taken care of. Our room smells like it was soaked with bleach and then closed up. Not sure what they were trying to hide.
We called in a food order at Tish's. In the past we have eaten at either Stake and Lube or a BBQ place. But BB found this place online and it was closer than the others. Tonight we split a chicken Philly and rings. Both were very good.
Load board
US - 140
IA - 12 (9 Canada)
If we get out of here by 8 AM tomorrow we should be able to make it to Forest City around noon for food from their driver appreciation week event. Then home by mid-afternoon. Now BB wants to get her passport again so she can fly if she wants/needs to. So we may end up doing that on Thursday or Friday instead of working.