2 RV to CA - Davis and Vacaville (delivered)

... spending the night at Livermore CA

Monday AM – Breakfast is back to eggs and sausage. Glad I grabbed some bacon yesterday, it was still really good today.

Yesterday AM we didn’t see the lawn chair man yesterday AM. Today we did see him. He had moved his chair so he was sitting in the shade of a different tree. BB had driven kind of close to him because she hadn’t seen him right away. They guy waved at her … she thought it was his way of saying … ‘I’m right here.’ But he had also waved at me and I wasn’t anywhere close.

I ended up putting in 2.2 gallons at the closest station. Fuel was $.40 a few blocks away but this was between the hotel and the freeway.

No issues on the freeway this AM. It took 10+ miles before my range started to drop. It was almost down to 40 miles when I got to the final fuel station. Traffic only slowed down where the two freeways come back together. Slowed down, no stopped traffic.

There is a little gas station just a few block from the drop, no one there when I got there. Used to be packed before the station on the corner became a 7-11. BB heads down to find a place to park, we’ve had issues when we drive a new RV onto the dealers property that isn’t theirs.

Two people are next to a golf cart right were I need to park. Before I was done signing my paperwork one of them was at the door asking for it. Then they told me where to wait which was not where we used to wait but it’s been a year and a half since we have been here.

So BB and I walk to where we think we are supposed to wait. There are three chairs next to the parts desk. We ask, and the person tells us we are supposed to wait … back where we used to. We’re here, we wait, then someone else asks if they can help us. When we say we were told to wait here, they DID know about the change. We are in the right place. Not sure where all the drivers stand when there are a dozen of us waiting to get checked in.

We are in and out in about a half hour. The old guys we dealt with for years are not here, didn’t ask.

I get to ride with BB for the next few miles. 

This rental car place is in a strip mall. I wait in the RV, BB goes in. There is a line. Today it took an hour and fifteen to get our car. One of those that came in later actually left in a taxi and went to the airport instead of waiting here in line. Not sure if they came out ahead or not.

Drop is across the freeway. First time so we had to ask a couple of people where to drop and then the person who did the inspection was gone to lunch so we weren’t sure we were in the right place. But once they started the inspection until we were done was maybe a half hour. Then we didn’t know how to get out of the building because we had came in the back and were leaving out the front. We went out the doors facing the road but those were into the RV show area. Someone followed us out and said we were not allowed in that area without a sales person ... we didn't want to be here. The person did then walk us out. This place looks new. There were still setting up computers for more sales desks.

BIG CHANGE … we did not have In-n-Out. We had BeachHut Deli food. We’ve eaten at a couple of them before including this one. Good food.

I called the bus dispatcher before we ate. They seemed to think I was looking for a trip already. No, I just like to let them know I am delivered. Things in my life change, I don’t assume what was true yesterday will still be today.

From there it is about an hour down to the shipper. When we get near we stop at a Target and call the dispatcher again. Sorry. No work today, maybe tomorrow.

Once we are done at Target we drive past the shipper and look at all of the buses. Then park on the street and wait. I’m always the optomist. Some driver could cancel, they could add another bus at the last minute, it has happened before.

Some of the buses that are done/close to done are about 70 Oakland buses. And they are still building them even though the drop won't take them. But I suppose that is what they have parts coming in for.

There are buses for Denver, Monterey Salinas (That is one places we go when we are waiting for buses,) Anaheim, Nevada County and 'County Connect' which is here in the SF Oakland area. No buses for Des Moines or La Crosse or ANYWHERE east.

Finally at just about 5 PM we decide to look at buses one more time and then head to the closest hotel. We had talked about driving out of town a ways but we want to switch rental cars and get a local for half the price.

Opps. Last night we stopped for gas and I pulled the cover off the fuel area. I haven’t tried to put it back on yet. It came off way to easy for me to be the first person who broke it. I’ll wait and put it back on when we are ready to drop it tomorrow.

On the way to the hotel we got soup from Panara, it’s only been a couple of hours since we ate but we aren’t likely to want to go back out again. We ordered soup and bread and got soup and chips. Not going back tonight. There are few other places we like to eat but they are all too much food.

It’s still early be with it being about 90 degrees again today we don’t go for a walk.

No plans for tomorrow.

8 AM (local) - Rocklin CA - Comfort Inn - leave hotel

8:30 - Davis CA - Velaro - fuel

8:45 - Davis CA - at my drop

10 AM - Vacaville CA - PU rental car

10:15 - Vacaville CA - at BBs drop

11 AM - Vacaville CA - Beach Hut Deli

2 PM - Livermore CA - Outlet Center

4 PM - Livermore CA - Quality Inn

Loadboard

IA - 4

(late numbers)

US -171

IA - 4/3

MN - 21

WI - 2