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 rigs that pulled in last night. Not as many as some nights but a fair amount of cars.

In our walk we saw two small vans with placards, I didn't know that carrier did anything but decked units. Now I do.

BB thought that breakfast was not until 6:30, I thought she was just pacing herself. Breakfast here is made to order, we both get eggs, hash browns, bacon and juice. I ended up taking some of the juice to go. I think there were about a half dozen people for breakfast when we were there, plus some to go orders.

We pull out a little after 7 AM local, the first 30 miles today is freeway. Then next miles are mostly two lane highway. Up and down, not hills, just like that is the way the sand had blown and they paved on top of it. The road seemed to be more up and down the land around it.

Noticed a lot of dirt trails of the highway. Some were graded, some were not that smooth and others had grass growing between the tire tracks. One place three cars turned down and one was pulling out. Not sure if these are shortcuts to somewhere or their only way to the hills.

Today I had written notes of highway numbers. But I had most of them memorized.

1st stop was the Pilot in Palmdale for a break. While we were there, BB was looking at the traffic times and GPS suggested a longer route. But as we talked, the time when down so we thought the whatever was clearing. It was now 9 AM local.

So we decide to take CA-118 where the slowdown was. First there was an accident with someone stalled in the center lane. That was the lane we were in and I didn't see it until I was only a few cars from it, then the highway helper followed BB past the car so others could see it.

But the big reason for the slow down today was a cement truck was on it's side blocking three lanes of traffic. BB looked online and it looks like it took six hours to get the road cleared. Five lanes down to two. The GPS warned us. We could have saved ourselves a half hour of sitting in traffic.

We stop for fuel at the Union 76 and then drop at the customer. We've been there and the inspector actually remembered that I had brought in the RV with the windshield that had cracked in the summer heat ... AND that we walk to the rental car place. Someone remembers us. :)

The other two RV's like ours were not there yet. They got them off the load board on Wednesday, should have left Thursday and should have to drop on Monday. The one odd RV that passed us did drop earlier today.

Today the rental car place has cars stacked three deep. We get a Cadillac. We drive back to the RV dealer and wait. We are there an hour and a half today. No issues.

Talking to the inspector, they are selling a new brand of RV. He said their location was the first in the nation to sign on with that brand. Storyteller Overland.

There had been trips on the load board that would have worked, but they are all gone by the time we are done here. So no rush to go anywhere.

I suggested a nearby cemetery and a hike but at 80 degree's that was too hot for BB. Instead we drove a few minutes to Moorpark and ate at the In-n-Out Burger. We we got there, I called dispatch to let them know I was now available.

We ate inside and then planned on stopping again before the I-5 / 99 split.

Wheelers Ridge TA was where we stopped next. They just finished taping off all of the fuel pumps. We don't need any yet, but we could have gotten it here. This TA has five fast food places. There are a lot of places now that do not even have one fast food place.

I call dispatch again ... call back in 15 minutes. So we did while I was driving. We talked and when they realized I could pick up first thing in the AM they said they'd have something, call back again in five minutes.

Nope, nothing today.

At the split we had hedged that dispatch would have something for us and I-5 is fewer miles. So once we knew there was no work, we headed cross country to CA-99. We looked at our options and decided to stay at the known place in Bakersfield. The Comfort Inn.

As we are checking in, two kids come in with their luggage while their mom parks the car. Each of them took five cookies, then their mom took one. BB had only grabbed us one each.

Once we got to our room we spent about an hour looking for food, it's harder when we have a car because we can go further. We end up driving 15 minutes to get a sandwich.

Every other place we looked at, we came up with some reason not to. This place we had been to before.

Deli Delicious. We've been there before, I knew about where it was but I was not zoomed in far enough while looking. But BB found it on line. By now it was dark ...

Not sure what happened, BB was paid almost right away and now we see the computer shows our carrier never received my paperwork for this trip. So we had to re-send it.

Load board

US - 158

IA - 6

MN - 1

WI - 1

We will head in the direction of the buses tomorrow, find some cemeteries or parks to walk on the way.