2 RVs to 1,000 Oaks CA (delivered)

... spending the night at Lathrup CA

OUCH !

Got a call from the bus dispatcher today saying there will be no more buses this week ... so we are now deadheading home after waiting three days.

Last night I was going to ask the person at the hotel desk about their mis-leading sign on the laundry room. But I never saw anyone when they weren't helping a customer and it wasn't a big enough deal to wait for.

I should have. Shortly after six this AM, we load our clothes into the washer and try to figure it out ... then I go to the front desk where I am told "Someone told the front desk clerk last night it was not working ..." The AM person tried to help us but no luck so we are out the time, Tide and how every much money we put in.

Breakfast was real eggs and sausage, the sausage was not to spicy for me so a good breakfast.

We watch the load board this AM but nothing great enough to call on. Finally at 11 AM we check out and head to Walmart. Random things we were out of. When we left the hotel this AM, BB dropped her water bottle and broke the handle off it. It didn't make it onto the Walmart list so we forgot about getting a new one.

We hadn't talked about where we were going to go. We pretty much wait until the last minute. And sometimes BB is tired of picking so today I said we'll eat at the Strawberry patch, go to a cemetery and then a state park.

All are in or near Watsonville. It's about two hours from there back to the buses so not too far away.

Great food at the Strawberry Patch. Little coffee shop serving breakfast and lunch. My sandwich was ham with apple slices. Plus I had a pineapple/mango malt and a piece of carrot cake. We'll stop again.

Sometime on the last few days an 'ad' for the Strawberry Festival in Watsonville showed up on FB. The carnival starts tomorrow but the rest runs on Sat and Sun so we'll miss it.

After we were done eating, it was about two miles straight on city streets to the cemetery. The gate from the main road was mostly closed with no-where to stop so we drove around looking for another way to get in or place to park. As I'm driving, BB is looking online at the aerial maps.

There is a way in, just before we get there .... ring, ring ... it is the bus dispatcher.

Not a very happy bus dispatcher. No work for me, no money for either of us. But call next time I am out.

We were already at the cemetery so we drove in. We've been here before but we must have gotten the locations for the cemetery across the street as I do not have any info on the dozen relatives buried here.

I drove through the cemetery and did find one of the markers. Before I got out ... BB and I talked a little about our options. Then I took my pictures.

Then I called local dispatch ... they do have a truck in CA. But it is six hours the wrong direction and is a garbage truck ... and is going to TX, not back to MN. I passed.

No work on our main board going that far. There had been something going to CO but that was earlier and I think was also a garbage truck.

Sometimes we jump too quick when plans change but we think we have looked at all the options. So we, BB, was able to change our current car to a one-way for a great price. Most places we looked at had 'no cars.' No cars if we want to make a new reservation but we can change this to a one-way. No problem.

So no state park today. No looking for more graves today. This is going to turn out to be one of our 'minimum pay' trips. Overall. But that is because it took us five days to do a four day trip. Then sat on the west coast for three days 'waiting for work' before heading home.

We will continue to watch for work. Sometimes things come up.

By the time we get back to Livermore, BB needs a restroom so we plan on stopping at Target. But first we swing past the buses. Almost the same eight as yesterday AM. One troolly was new from before. Also was we drove past, we saw there is a storage lot of buses on the south side of the building now too. 100's of buses total between the three lots.

When we did stop at Target, there was someone with a dolly full of produce that they were trying to sell. We avoided them.

Plan was to get to Rocklin yet tonight. But the ETA kept getting later and later. Then I mentioned the food trucks in Lathrup and we decided to stop there for food and the hotel a couple of blocks away for the night.

Supposed to be 27 food trucks, we didn't count them. We looked at the all. Only one serving ice cream. No cookies, no brownies, no deserts. We ended up getting Italian. No what we think of for food truck food but it was good. We each ate about half of our food and will eat the rest for breakfast ... or forget.

If we drive 10 hours at 70 mph we will be in Salt Lake City tomorrow night.

Checked in with the bus driver that is broke down in Cheyenne ... they are not having her stay with the bus (?) So it sounds like they are really clamping down on the hotels, I've stayed three weeks once. Down time and hotels paid. No more ???

Our rental car is getting 48.5 mpg so far. Not sure it will keep that at 80 mph but we'll watch for it.

Load board

US - 80

IA - 5/4

MN - 7

WI - 1