2 RV's to Davis CA

... spending the night at Sidney NE

Spent last night in Waukee IA at the Sleep Inn.

Today my breakfast is a small cup of yogurt. Too much food earlier in the week.

It is light outside by 7 AM but breakfast doesn't start here until 7 AM so we wait. By 7:30 we are ready to pull out. Lots of stops today, things are not well spaced.

1st stop is the Loves in Shelby as we are not likely to make it to Omaha without walking. These are diesel so we both fuel using the same pump. When I come back out, BB is talking to someone instead of fueling. I fuel hers, I fuel mine, I go in and pay and by then the person she is talking to has moved from waiting in line to being done fueling and she is still talking to them.

Or listening. It is a driver we met in Indiana when we were picking up once. We had talked to him thee for about a half hour before we decided to keep moving. This conversation was not that long but longer than our 10-15 usual stop.

About halfway through Lincoln it starts to snow harder, there had been wisps of snow as soon as we got to Nebraska but now it is staying on the road. First we see a pickup tight to the median, too tight to have parked there intentionally.

Then within the next couple of miles we see a couple of damaged cars and one in the ditch. Traffic slows to 35-45 mph for quite a while. I just go with the flow of traffic and follow a ways back. Can't say it's a 'safe distance' as how far is that on ice? Or packed snow? We never do get back up to 65 mph before we pull off for fuel.

2nd stop was in Seward at the rest area, this is supposed to be a trucks only rest area but there is a steady line of cars coming and going. And because there is not any car parking, they seem to think the travel lane is a good place to park.

3rd stop is Aurora for fuel and food. BB was right, people are traveling and the Loves are packed with people that don't know truckstop protocol. We try to park on opposite sides of a pump but that took some waiting, then both sides opened at once.

This is a small Loves and the car lot is full, people filling in one of the drive areas also. So we go around back to park with the trucks. That is a zoo also but we find a spot before the fuel islands so we don't need to deal with most of it.

... and then I order a larger sandwich, none of the shelf food looked good. So we ended up spending an hour here between fuel and food. Half that is our goal. Arby's.

Before our next stop we see a couple of trucks in the ditch, one of them on it's side.

Then I saw something I don't think I have ever seen before, a truck on the side of the road with both left rear tires flat, (or four if it was duals) It was sitting on the rims. Hmm ...

Unrelated but in the same area that was an old man waving his thumb up and down, at the time I thought about calling the cops when we stopped but by then I forgot. There was a pickup on the opposite side of the freeway and my guess is he was the driver. And not dressed for standing outside at 20 degrees with wind.

Also thought about stopping but not until we are long past.

4th stop is the Loves in North Platte for fuel. Another zoo, here BB had to pull in behind me as there were not opens across from each other. The car on the other side of the pump was sitting there, empty when we got there. Someone with a long trailer pulled in behind them and was asking ... some one's easy parking spot I guess.

When we were done fueling, we pulled off to the side while I paid and BB made reservations in Sidney for tonight.

Going past Ogallala tonight I noticed that Runza has moved to a new building. Their former building used to be a Best Western on one end, the Runza and The Farmers Daughter back to back in the middle and a gas station on the other end. The whole area is now vacant.

I missed this one. In Big Springs there is a new Maverick gas station that opened across the freeway from the Flying J. I looked to see that the gas was the same price both places and the diesel was $.30 less at the Maverick. What did not click with me, but did with BB, was that the price of gas was $2.39 vs close to $3 on Ogallala.

Somewhere along here, one of our RV's pass us. I don't see it coming so I only get a quick look. It is wrapped so it is new, neither of us see any placards or a plate. We run at 65 mph so they were doing 70-75 mph. That was it for transporters today.

We are heading off into the sunset, luckily there are clouds most of the way so it is only a problem for a few minutes tonight. We end up getting to Sidney at 6 PM, last light. Not a huge issue, once the Denver traffic splits off the road is mostly empty, we know the road and very little wildlife.

We've had this desk clerk before, we she sees our name she has to mention the $$ money ones in Denver.

As soon as we are in our room we walk to Taco Johns. We eat there so the food is warm when we eat it. Tonight the beef is too spicy for me. We eat at one once in a while near us and I don't remember that being an issue.

Shortly before we got to Sidney, the temps dropped to 15 degrees but then came back up a few. This year the cold is really hitting me hard. I had my heat on high and my jacket zipped up all day to stay warm. Every so often I would put a hand in front of the vent to take the chill off.

Load board (weekend)

US - 310

IA - 91

MN - 5

WI - 8

Plan is for a 5:30 alarm, leave out at 7 AM. We plan to get past Evanston if possible. We've never stayed between Evanston and Salt Lake City before but that is the plan this time. We stay here a lot, not sure if we usually stop short or push past SLC.

BB will be watching the weather. Not just the snow but high winds are forecast and we are 'high profile.'