1 vac truck to Bridgeton MO (delivered)

... spending the night at home

Nowhere to go, yet, so no alarm. It is supposed to be hot and humid. They even canceled the marathon a half a day north of here by home. BB is trying to get walks in so we were out before breakfast. This hotel has a trail that runs next to the railroad tracks and freeway so there are not too many streets to cross.

Basic breakfast. Then we got going about 8:30 instead of our usual 7:30.

We spent a lot of time talking about working vs not working and when to work. There were two trips out of MN that would have worked and one trip back to MN. I even texted that dispatcher, not knowing what hours they answer the phone on the weekend. Dispatcher never got back to me, but by the end of the weekend, those two and all of his other trips were gone.

We finally decide to just do local, metro for the two days next week. So that means we are in no rush to get home.

So we stop by a cemetery in Waterloo that has one of my Dad's 1st cousins buried in it. Office is closed on the weekends and there are 1,000's of graves, all flat. So we don't even get out of the car. We have stopped here before but never when the office is open. I will need to contact them and try to get the location info another way.

Because we took this little detour, it is now faster to go up through Rochester than going through Owatonna. No rest area's on these roads so we stop at the Kwik Star in New Hampton.

Not going to be home by lunch time so BB finds us a place in Rochester to eat. Canadian Honkers. Highly rated, but not very busy today. It is close to the hospital and that may be their main clientele.

Plenty of food, good food. But we had also heard about an ice cream shop in town. Flapdoodles. I got a malt and BB got two cones, upside down on a plater. They have a name for it.

From there it was a straight ride home.

Load board

US - 121

IA - 1/0

MN - 1

WI - 3

After more talking later about all the what if's, we decided that taking the rental car for our trip is now plan 'A.' Plan A had been to get work going that direction, when there was still work. We now have other things lined up so we no longer have a huge window of time on either end of the trip.

We are still home a couple of days, then gone for about a week. Then as soon as we are back one of us has an appointment. A total of four appointments and three lab checks are set for the following week. Then who knows ...

One of those four is currently for two weeks later, but we are hoping to move it up if anyone has a cancelation.

A week of following me around for BB is about her limit. It pays, but it has a different stress level than doing the cross country trips.