2 RVs to 1,000 Oaks CA

... spending the night at Barstow CA

Opps. Really should have made sure I had an extra foot or more clearance before going under the canopy at the hotel :(

No damage done, good thing there were not AC or heater units on the top.

Back to the AM ... we could smell bacon when we walked out of our room. And they had real eggs so a good breakfast.

It actually felt cool this AM, we could have taken time for a walk but we were ready to go. I called dispatch about the windshield. No answer so we left.

1st stop of the day was the Maverick in Salina for fuel. Their posted price was less than our discounted price at Loves. I tried to call dispatch from here but no cell service ... in town.

So we did a quickstop at a rest area an hour later, no cell service.

2nd real stop was at an Asian restaurant in Cedar City. We had picked Panda last night but BB is not a fan so she found this place. I got the sweet and sour chicken. I told them I did not want the soup but they brought it any how. I didn't want the egg roll or rice either but that wasn't mentioned so I didn't know it was part of the meal. I ate most of the chicken and just that was too much food. The rest went to waste.

While we were eating, I finally had cell service so I texted dispatch ... without looking at my email I had sent in the AM. They had replied, I would not have need to try and call them. Wasn't thinking it through ..

Another hour down the road and we are at another Maverick for fuel. We don't need fuel yet but it is the last 'cheap' fuel and MAY be our last fuel if our mileage goes up.

15.5 mpg on Weds

15.1 mpg on Thurs

15.8 mpg on Friday

The firs tank on Friday had been at 16.9 but I wasn't keeping track of each one. I just remember that one.

The scale at St George is now over 26,000# so we didn't need to cross. All inspection area's in NV were closed and scale in CA are trucks only.

I wish I had had my camera out earlier this AM. Nice blue sky, rising sun shinning on some parts of the hills. Could have stopped a few times. And again coming through AZ. Very picturesque.

North of Las Vegas, near what used to be Garnet, we stopped at a Loves for a break. Crowded but we did find a spot to park. They are adding on to the building, next they need to add on to the parking lot.

Don't remember when, but again today the temp was 127 degrees when I got back in my RV. Once we got into CA it the temps were 116-118 for quite a while.

We had stopped at Loves to decide if we were staying in Las Vegas tonight or keep going to Barstow. We had gotten going early enough that we would have been in Las Vegas by about 1 PM so we kept going. So we got in a 500+ mile day today. Sure didn't need to. But it kept us from waiting to check into a hotel and got us a hotel for half the price.

Traffic was light in Las Vegas today. I think the slowest we got down to was 60 mph. Usually it is stop and go.

Last stop of the day was a rest area near Nipton for a break.

Back in Jean NV there is a new gas station claiming to have the most pumps in NV. That is the same exit where the huge casino closed during Covid and has never re-opened. Not sure about Primm. There is a huge amusement area that does not seem to have re-opened either.

We get to the hotel and 'our' parking spot is taken. We try a couple of other and then BB wants to go back to where we came in. She goes out onto the street ... and that is when I go under the canopy of the hotel. No, no, no. But BB said I didn't hit anything on top, and I went up to steps at the hotel to look. No damage. Whew.

Big party going on. BB thinks it may be for someone turning 15 ??? She had a name for the event. Fancy dress. Lots of suits. No idea.

We ate at the in house restaurant. Full. Us, not the restaurant.

Other happenings today ...

1st there was a Grayhound pulled over by three cops.

2nd there was a pickup pulling a travel trailer that rolled. Cops were there but the ambulance didn't get there until after we passed. Bot the pickup and the trailer were on their sides, but opposite sides. And there was a four-wheeler in the middle of the road. Not sure if it was from a different vehicle, on a 2nd trailer of this vehicle or had been on the top of the pickup. There was a gal holding a toddler sitting next to the pickup.

3rd was a car in the median that looked like it had maybe rolled. Here there was also a gal holding a toddler next to the car. A cop was there but the tow truck was just getting there.

4th was a car who came down the ramp onto the freeway and then tried to get over in the center lane where I was. No one ahead in their lane for a half mile. I blew my horn but I couldn't hear it. They didn't hit me, pulled back in their own lane until they were past ... later I tried my horn again. Not likely anyone would hear it unless I was on a residential street with no traffic.

5th was earlier today. Almost no traffic. I had been slowly gaining on a truck and finally pulled out to pass. When I am about half way past the truck he turns on his blinker ... and blows his horn. I guess I wasn't passing him fast enough and now he wanted to pass what he had caught up to.

8 AM - leave hotel in Green River

10 AM - Fuel at Maverick in Salina

11:30 - try to make a call from the rest area near Pagaonah

Noon - eat at Asian Bistrow in Cedar City

2 PM - Fuel at Marerick in Washington

3:30 - break at Loves in Garnet NV

5 PM - break at rest area in Nipton CA

6:30 - arrive at Quality Inn in Barstow

7:00 - eat at Los Domingos in Barstow

Loadboard

US - 74

IA - 1

MN - 2

WI - 1