2 RV's to North Canton OH

... spending the night at Cedar Falls IA

5 AM alarm. BB slept great, I did OK until 2 AM.

Breakfast starts here at 7 AM on weekends and we pull out at 6 AM. BB grabs an orange and a yogurt. When I go in for our receipt, the pre-printed one is hardly readable so that offer to print a new one. They did, but it wasn't for my room. Then they re-print mine, but each time the printing is lighter and lighter. I keep the 1st one. But all this has cost us minutes.

Non-stop from the hotel to the shipper to pick up our car. Three hours, so we are pushing it. I have almost everything moved from the rental to our car by the time BB uses the restroom.

On our way in we notice that the shipper has 100+ RV's lined up in their employee lot again and most are the better paying no-tow units. Work is a-comin'.

We haven't seen much snow since we left MN. As we got closer to Forest City there was more snow, but still mostly just drifts. In just the few miles north from the shipper to the border there is more snow. Some places covering the ground in non-drift area's.

Once in MN there is even more snow but some of the fields are still bare from being blown bare. But once we are <> 20 miles into MN the ground is covered everywhere.

I used to stop at the cemetery next to the airport when I was waiting for BB. I wish I would have today. Snow is pretty much covering the makers except for the one name on top. The only paths are where they have plowed for new burials.

2nd stop - instead I park in the cell phone area and wait. I have time enough to move some items and do some paperwork before BB calls. Besides the snow, the other reason I didn't stop at the cemetery is I wanted to be ready to drive as soon as BB called, not be 5-10 minutes from my car looking for a grave marker.

3rd stop was the Jimmy John's in Eagan. We looked and that area seemed to be the closest, quickest area to get food. Today I got a regular instead of a 'slim' as I had not eaten breakfast. Too much, a slim would have been plenty.

We often will stop at Honey Baked but they take a little longer ... and now we see that this location is no longer open on Sundays. Not sure when that started.

4th stop was for fuel in Albert Lea at Loves. Gas was cheaper back in Owatonna but then the tank would not have been as full at the lot.

5th stop is back at the shipper. We had planned for it to take us four hours to get to the airport and back. It took us five. Now we know, but will we remember.

We are the only ones there when we get to the lot but a few minutes later there are three more people picking up. We keep moving and do not talk to any of them. It is 32+ while we are picking up so that helps. Someone posted on FB that it was warmer in MN at Dodge Center a few days ago than it was in FL this AM.

Reminds me ... last year, later in January we headed to FL with one RV to get away from the cold. After we dropped in FL we had to get south of Fort Meyers, down by the Miami area to be south of the freeze line. We didn't make but a few dollars that trip.

6th stop is Floyd at Loves for fuel. Today the person at the fuel desk just takes my cards to hang on to them ... and never turns the pump on. So I go back in, they have no idea how to turn the pumps on (would have been nice if they had told me that) Neither did the 2nd person, finally a 3rd person was able to get it started.

When I went back in to pay, again that 1st person had no idea how to ring up a fuel charge. A 4th person came to the desk and was able to ring me up, after a couple of tries. All of this takes time. But it didn't change what we were doing.

From here BB makes a reservation in Cedar Falls. It will be dark by then.

7th and final stop for the day is at the Comfort Inn. We walk across the parking lot to Kwik Star/Kwik Trip for food. BB gets sushi and I get deep fried chicken. No good sandwiches today and only two kinds of soup. Plus we had gotten extra cookies at Jimmy John's at noon. :)

We did see a few RV's today. Easy to pick out the ones with the wrap on the front end.

Load board

US - 153

IA - 42/41

Nothing of interest shipping from OH, but there are a couple of short ones in IN that could keep us busy while we wait for work.

We do have tomorrow mapped out. Should get to Toledo. Then from there it will be four hours to the drop on Tuesday. Since we were there last time, they have built a new Loves Truckstop at the next exit. We will park one RV there after we fuel, then swing past the airport and then to the drop. All within about a couple of miles. Could walk it, likely won't.