1 bus to Frisco CO (cancled)

1 bus to Loveland CO

... spending the night at Santa Nella CA

... ring, ring, ring.

Last night I had shut off the lights but not gotten into bed yet. Last time we were out west and someone called us late, it was the bus dispatcher who WOULD have told me I had a bus in the AM if I had picked up the phone.

So last night I pick up the phone when I see it is him. This time I do NOT have a bus, it has been canceled. So we can sleep in. And not have to worry about tire chains or my driving hours. He should have a different bus for me in the afternoon.

We spent last night at the Comfort Inn in Rocklin.

We hang around the hotel until close to checkout. We do not go down for breakfast. Instead we walk next door and spend $$ for a really good breakfast at Morning Toast.

We stop on one cemetery on the way to the shipper. Not the one I was expecting but one that there were graves still to take pictures at.

We do drive past the shipper, it is just off the road we take to our walk. We try to guess where we might get sent this time. We do see the buses with part of the name taped over but we can't read it from the street. Lots of buses in both parking lots.

Then we headed to our walk place in Livermore. WE feel more safe there, leaving our car sitting as it is in a pay lot. We walk our usual <> hour. And then we call dispatch. He has one ... going to CO. Not the same one as yesterday.

We talk about the route as it is CNG, and the short route would require chains. So they will pay us to go the longer route. Good for us. As we will have 4+ days to go a little over a two days drive on the short route.

Paperwork won't be ready for a couple of hours ...

We sit at the park for a while and then decide to go and eat. Mr Pickle's.

And then go to the lot. When it is close to paperwork time, I start my inspection. I have to move a bus to get to mine. A Disney bus. There are a few of them but I didn't get one. Once the paperwork is there, BB heads out to drop the car. They drop off a lot of paperwork, but no other drivers are there waiting to head out. One bus already has paperwork in it so someone who got their bus last night still hasn't headed out.

I follow BB a few minutes later. Swing in and pick up BB and then hit the road ... at 55 mph. That is an hour - hour and a half extra driving each day to get the same number of miles.

A few miles down the road, BB realizes that there is no heat in the rear of the bus. Not wanting to get too far away from the shipper, we pull off at a hotel with enough parking to park a bus. I never did find the light switch for the drivers area and the flashlight on my phone no longer works and it is long past dark.

While looking for the light switch, I find something else :) :) The heater switch. Kind of like the thermostat on your wall doesn't work if the main switch on the furnace is turned off. Glad I didn't call that one in and / or return to the shipper.

And we did not want to stay here in town today as these hotels are 3x as much as where we do stay.

Final stop is the Quality Inn in Santa Nella.

Load board

US - 100

IA - 2/1

MN -0-

WI - 5