2 RV's to Davis CA

... spending the night at Coalville UT

Spent the night at the Comfort Inn in Sidney NE.

Alarm was set for 5 AM local but we were up before that. All this place had for yogurt was diet, but they had other good food. The 'ham patties,' is what I call them. Like sliced ring sausage but without the spice. And cheese omelette and potatoes. Just in case we don't get a good meal at noon.

The temp did rise again during the night so it is back above 20 degrees. Lots of travelers yesterday but the hotel was not too busy. Our two RV's, four pickups with trailers, one decked semi tractors and maybe a dozen cars.

We are ready to pull out at 6:30 local, all the way across the street to fuel at Loves. The tow away driver we were talking to yesterday is in the front lot at Loves, either sleeping in the cab of his pickup or in the travel trailer.

Next stop is an hour plus down the road at the POE / Port of Entry for Wyoming to get our permits. In the office, they ask BB for something we don't have, BB answers once, then twice and then the officer was like ... Duh. It finally clicked why we didn't have what they asked for.

We did see two tow away drivers here with travel trailers. That was it for the day other than two stacked/decked sets of semi tractors.

The scale house usually has their screen on showing the road conditions. It was off line. So BB tries to bring it up on her phone, it can't connect. So today we will be going by what the overhead signs say.

1st one says 'slick spots - slow down - shut of cruise.

But a few miles after that the variable speed limit signs are set to 55 mph instead of 75-80 mph. Sounds good to me.

After a few miles of that the signs are up to 65 mph, about the same place the overhead signs say - gusts to 40+. And the roads were worse. I stayed at 55 mph until we were almost to Laramie.

When we get to Loves, we drive around the fuel pumps a few times trying to find a place we will both fit. Once we find a pump (that the screen doesn't work on) and get it turned on, we notice all the other pumps are now empty. One car that was sitting here when we got here was just leaving. Timing.

Another hour and a half and we are at our fourth stop of the day. Burger King in Rawlins. Fast food, fast. We are in and out in our 30 minutes.

Cheyenne to Laramie was our bad roads for the day. Still windy but the roads are clear and the traffic is light.

Saw one coyote carefully crossing the road today. Also saw lots of pronghorn deer grazing.

Lots of changes in businesses. There is a new Maverick gas station in Laramie that had not even been started the last time we came through and now it is open.

5th stop is the Loves in Green River. Something happened today that we have not had happen before. They would not turn on our fuel pump inside. If they don't do it that way, we do not get our fuel discount which amounts to ?? $20 per stop. We had to fuel with the big trucks to get the discount. We needed fuel before there would be another station or we would have just left.

We fuel at Loves with the RV's because we can fuel at the auto pumps and we have small RV's. IF we need to fuel with the trucks, we will go where fuel is cheaper, and it is rarely Loves. The stations likely don't care but truckers can have an attitude about us being in with the 'professional drivers.'

BB does the math and Coalville is as far as we can get by dark. So the Best Western it is. When we get to the hotel, BB realizes she was looking at sunset, not last light. We would have been able to get to Park City were there is a lot more food choices.

We have to cross a weigh scale before the hotel. BB can't see the signs as the sun was right at the sign level. She thought they might be coming after her as she just left ... (no, there are other lower signs that light up if they want to see you in the scale house.)

Once we check in, we ask about food ... Park City. Everything in town is closed on the weekends. When I asked about Subway, they thought that was open. So we drove there and it was closed. So I stopped at a gas station and they did have hot food. BB was sure they would not so she did not go in. I got a two piece chicken and some cheese sticks.

BB ended up nuking something from the hotel fridge.

When I told the desk clerk that Subway was closed, they said ... 'but I see you found some hot wings.' BB caught that, I didn't. They were to hot/spicy for my tastes. Luckily there was enough cheese sticks to lessen the bite.

Fuel. We are getting paid assuming the RV's will get 13 mpg. So far every tankful has gotten either 8 or 9 mph. Hopefully we are saving enough on the fuel that the cost of the fuel will offset the miles lost.

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Tomorrow we will try to get the 500 miles to Fernley, that will leave about 200 miles for Tuesday to get to the drop.

Tomorrow we need to call for permits, call the drop and the bus dispatcher.