Today they did not put out any trips until 10:15. 3 RV's, no pairs.
(Now I have forgotten the rest of the RV's they put out)
By noon they had put out 2 more, at least today the ones they are putting out are all new, not reworked or left ones.
About 3 PM they put out a KS and a NY one. KS is less than a day trip and the return trip is finally gone after a week. The NY one would have to deal with the weather. So we sit.
... or don't sit, we head out to more cemeteries. The first one was by Randall, a quarter mile off the road. But the farmer leaves a sod path so with the ground being <> frozen we were able to drive back there. BB wasn't so sure but to me it was just another farm path. Well cared for cemetery.
Next cemetery was in Story City. I had written down that there were 500 total graves, it was actually closer to 5,000 so we didn't get out of the car. It was a flat stone and I had no location.
While driving, BB had found a place to eat that had both a chicken salad sandwich and potato soup ... but when we got there the first thing we noticed was all the tables were empty ... They have quit serving food and are now only a bakery. :( We did get one cookie. And we asked if there were an other cafe's in town. The one by our hotel in this town has been closed for a while and now the building is gone.
The place they mentioned is only a coffee shop, not a cafe.
Next stop was for gas at the Kwik Star, I realized we were getting close to E once we were off the freeway in the middle of no-where.
We ended up at the Pizza Ranch buffet. Not bad food, we did not request any pizza's and by the time we left there was no one else in the building.
Next stop was Gilbert, mostly upright markers and only about 10 rows deep so it was a quick walk. But we didn't find it until the second time across. The cemetery now has locations but they aren't listed on FindaGrave yet.
From there we headed in the direction of home ... until we got a couple of miles down the road. Then we decided to stay out and headed down to Ames.
The cemetery in Ames is huge but had an office that was open. The office was a little square building that looked like the walls were three feet thick. I asked, the building was built as an office. This marker was a flat one but was right next to the road so BB didn't even get out of the car.
We have time for one more before dusk. Nevada, about five miles away. I hadn't planned on this one so I know nothing as we drive in. Office should still be open but is not. As we sit by the office we see the cemetery has location makers. AND looking online, the locations have been added to each person since I put the people in my list. Two minutes later we had located those graves.
We had planned on heading to Ankeny but the hotel here in town was $10 cheaper and 20 miles closer. So we stayed at the Sleep Inn in Ames. My food was left over potato skins.
Load board (weekend)
US - 80
IA - 0
MN - 1
WI - 6
Load board (Monday)
US - 65
IA - 5/3
MN - 4
WI - 7