2023 11 12 IA-CA
1 bus to Lubbock TX (delivered)... spending the night at home Shorter day today, no alarm. Spent last night at the Sleep Inn in West Des Moines. Quick breakfast and then we were rolling. Made it as far as Dows before our 1st stop. Stopped at the rest area. Did get the car up to 30 mpg for a few min...
2023 11 11 IA-CA
1 bus to Lubbock TX (delivered)... spending the night at West Des Moines IA Too much Italian food too late in the day, even though we split it. I didn't sleep well and decided it was a yogurt day. All they had was 'lite' yogurt. We spent the last night at the Comfort Inn in Weatherford OK. Today we...
2023 11 10 IA-CA
1 bus to Lubbock TX (delivered)... spending the night at Weatherford OK Spent the night in Amarillo at the Comfort Inn. When I go to check out, the person a the desk asks for my drivers license. I don't think that has ever happened before. BB does the reservations so I don't always remember what the...
2023 11 09 IA-CA
1 bus to Lubbock TX... spending the night at Amarillo TX Spent last night at the Clarion in Winslow AZ... from walking the streets of Bakersfield to standing on a corner in Winslow AZ:) Breakfast was leftovers from last night for both of us. I ate half my chicken last night and the other half this A...
2023 11 08 IA-CA
1 bus to Lubbock TX... spending the night at Winslow AZ Spent the night in Bakersfield, same as the night before. And ate the same breakfast, egg and cheese omelette plus yogurt and juice. This place has their juice machine set to fill one cup. I'm used to filling half the cup with each so the first...
2023 11 07 CA-TX
1 bus to Lubbock TX... spending the night at Bakersfield CA (written up two days later) We had spent the night at the Comfort Inn in Bakersfield. After we had been in bed for an hour plus, the phone rings. By the time I answer, they have hung up. It was the bus dispatcher. There wasn't a voice messa...
2023 11 06 IA-CA
2 RV's to 1,000 Oaks CA (delivered)... spending the night at Bakersfield CA Too much food, too late? Not sure the why but I did not sleep great. We were at the Quality Inn in Barstow last night. BB was up at 4 local, 6 home time. We went for a mile walk once there was daylight. There were three big...
2023 11 05 IA-CA
2 RV's to 1,000 Oaks CA... spending the night at Barstow CA Up early but not rolling early. Time change was today so things are off. We spent the night at the Comfort Inn in Richfield UT. Last night, shortly after we shut the lights off there was a flash in our room. We both saw it, still don't know...
2023 11 04 IA-CA
2 RV's to 1,000 Oaks CA... spending the night at Richfield UT Last night was spent in Brighton CO at the Comfort Inn. Breakfast was ham and eggs. Pull out was 7:30 AM. NO slow downs on a Saturday AM going through Denver. Driving past the other hotel we had talked about, I remember it now, but when I...
2023 11 03 IA-CA
2 RV's to 1,000 Oaks CA... spending the night at Brighton CO Spent the night at the Quality Inn in Lincoln NE. Breakfast was light. This location does not have hot eggs and meat. So yogurt and a hard boiled egg it was. Ready to pull out at 7:30 at break of day. 1st stop is the Grand Island rest area...
2023 11 02 IA-CA
2 RV's to 1,000 Oaks CA... spending the night at Lincoln NE Spent the night at the Comfort Inn in Albert Lea. Up without an alarm. No breakfast as we'll be eating at our safety meeting. We had parked where the sun would shine on our windshield... in a few hours. Once we were off the freeway, I had t...
2023 11 01 MN-MN
2 PU's to Shakopee MN (delivered) 2 RV's to 1,000 Oaks CA (Thursday)... spending the night at Albert Lea MN We were home last night on Halloween. This year we had 8 trick or treaters, I'm not sure we were home the last two years, but in 2020 we had 2. Before that there were years we had 100+. Things...
2023 10 31 MN-IA
1 PU to Shakopee MN (delivered) 1 box truck to Orange City IA (delivered)... spending the night at home Stayed at the Comfort Inn in Worthington MN last night. Breakfast was (good) bacon and so-so eggs this AM. Juice was packaged, not from a machine. Must have been too cold last night for the smoke...
2023 10 30 MN-IA
1 PU to Shakopee MN (delivered) 1 box truck to Orange City IA (delivered)... spending the night at Worthington MN Our hotel last night was the Country Inn in Grand Rapids. There were a few minor issues, starting with the desk clerk not 'seeing' us until I picked up the house phone. The door into th...
2023 10 29 MN-MN
1 PU to Shakopee MN (Monday) 1 box truck to Orange City IA (Monday)... spending the night at Grand Rapids MN Spent last night at home. No alarm this AM. Today I ate the other half of last nights meal for breakfast then finished up some yard work (not raking) before todays snow fall. We pulled out a...
2023 10 28 MN-MN
1 PU to Shakopee MN (Monday) 1 box truck to Orange City IA (Monday)... spending the night at home As soon as it was 8 AM, I texted the pickup location to see if we could pick up on our truck on Monday. The paperwork had said there was no one on site. After a few texts I was told that the keys were...
2023 10 27 MN-MN
1 trash truck to Burnsville MN (delivered) 1 PU to Shakopee MN (Monday) 1 box truck to Orange City IA (Monday)... spending the night at home Breakfast, plenty of breakfast. Looks like there was a sports team or two that had stayed the night so they had plenty of food. We hadn't really done the math...
2023 10 26 IA-IA
1 box truck to Ankeny IA (delivered) 1 RV to Altoona IA (delivered)... spending the night at Ankeny IA Today we wake up at the Comfort Inn in Iowa City. Last night we had talked to the front desk about all of the things we were missing in our room, including shampoo. When we came back from getting...
2023 10 25 IN-IA
1 box truck to Ankeny IA 1 RV to Altoona IA (Thursday)... spending the night at Iowa City IA Spent last night at the Comfort Inn in Maumee. Breakfast this AM wasn't much. The cups they had for juice were maybe the syrup cups? I used a coffee cup for my juice. The best trip on the load board this AM...
2023 10 24 MN-MI
1 tank truck to Troy MI (delivered)... spending the night at Maumee OH (trying to make my ramblings easier to follow) We stayed last night at the Comfort Inn in Schaumburg IL. Breakfast here is sparse but enough. Once we had dished up our plates we were walking to the elevator... "Stop. You can not...
2023 10 23 MN-MI
Computer running too slow to function. Picked up this AM in New Prage, will drop near Detroit tomorrow. BB is riding with instead of following in a car. Load board US - 127 IA - 1 MN - 8 WI - 4 ---- 1 tank truck to Troy MI... spending the night at Schaumburg IL We didn't quite get going by 7:30 tod...
2023 10 21 MN-MI
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2023 10 15 MN
Load board (Thursday) US - 201 IA - 4/3 MN - 8 WI - 5 Load board (Friday) US - 187 IA - 3/1 MN - 7 WI - 5 Load board (weekend) US - 189 IA - 3/1 MN - 6 WI - 5 Load board (Monday) US - 177 IA - 3 MN - 5 WI - 8 Load board (Tuesday) US - 161 IA - 1 MN - 9 WI - 5 Load board (Wednesday) US - 176 IA - 3 M...
2023 10 11 MN-MN
1 trash truck to Minneapolis MN (delivered)... spending the night at home No alarm, home made breakfast. We drop off our vacation rental car on the way to my truck and stop at the drug store on the way home so not a wasted trip. Would have been nice to have had the WI to MN leg:) We get to the drop...
2023 10 10 MN-MN
1 trash truck to Minneapolis MN (Wednesday)... spending the night at home We are still traveling back home from our weekend in Nashville. No plans to work until we see how these next two weeks of appointments play out. We stopped early last night as we were both tired. Vacationing can be tiring. We...
2023 10 06 VaCa
VaCa - Vacation. The only work related thing we did this weekend was call about my I-pass. Thursday when we leave with the rental car I realize that my I-pass is not in my bag. We are going to be going within a few miles of the last customer I used it for so I call them and ask them to check. Pretty...
2023 10 04 MN-WI
1 trash truck to Johnson Creek WI (delivered)... spending the night at home Up at our usual time, go for a walk once it is light out. With our medical appointments coming up, BB is looking hard at doing things differently. Sitting all day and eating fast food is not the recommended way to live a he...
2023 10 03 MN-WI
1 trash truck to Johnson Creek WI (delivered)... spending the night at Johnson Creek WI Change of plans. We were going to take a few days off before vacation but we got everything pretty much done on Monday we wanted to, so we are working. Problem is that the truck we want in the mid-west belongs t...
2023 10 02 MN
Had to drop off my paperwork today from my local trip. They will not accept faxed or emailed copies. They didn't have any trucks in the lot but two of their shuttle vans were gone and one was just returning. There were RV trips on the load board right away at 8 AM today including one going to Califo...