2 RV's to Medford OR (delivered)

... spending the night at Redding CA

This seems to be a mostly yogurt trip. Today I got yogurt and two cups of fruit. But by the time I was done with the yogurt I was full. So the fruit was to go.

We had gone to bed early last night so we were <> up by about 4 AM local. First light wasn't until 7 AM. We had our rigs inspected and were rolling out the driveway by 7.

I wait until after we do our daily inspections before I go back in and check out. Today as I was heading back in, I met a guy (coming out?) that had two heaping plates of food. Not that unusual, some people take a lot. Some people take it to go. He was walking in the direction of the cars.

When I came back out, I met him again. This time heading in the direction of the street. (There is no back way out) Then as BB and I left a few minutes later, I see him again, this time coming out of a nearby gas station. Still carrying the two heaping plates of food. I would think if he was a local homeless that he would know his way around.

The homeless we saw last night when we went out to eat were gone this AM.

Fog, rain.

1st stop was the Loves in Roseburg. This place wanted to hold my company fuel card and my license (normal) AND a credit card ... first time for that. But worth it. The discount we got was almost 1/3 of the posted price. We easily could have saved more money but putting in less fuel. BUT we don't know how much fuel these things are going to take going over the passes before the drop.

We could have put in 2-3 gallons less each ... at $3.

Coming up one of the passes, I am following a transporter who is towing one. A decked unit. As he gets close to a UPS truck, the UPS truck decides he wants to be in the left lane to pass a truck he is closing in on. Decked unit was moving faster than both so he managed to get between the slowest truck and the UPS truck, barely.

Then a minute or so later a pickup comes flying past and may have thought he would do the same thing but now there was not enough room left ... so he passed them both on the shoulder. I didn't think too much about it at the time. It happens.

Then a mile or so down the road there was a semi driving on the shoulder because of how slowly he was going. Now if the timing had been different ... and this truck had been on the shoulder when the pickup decided to pass on the shoulder ... I'd likely still been sitting in the backup 12 hours later while someone picked up the pieces.

2nd stop is the Pilot near the drop. We finally decide here the logistics of today.

We drop BB's RV a half mile from the customer at a shopping center. Then I bring BB back to the airport where she picks up the rental car. Then we both head back to the shopping center and load our luggage into the rental car before we travel together to the customer.

3rd stop - the drop. Once we check in, I walk back to the shopping center. Might have been the longest stretch all day where it did not rain.

Saw two food trucks, on the walk. Plus another one a couple of blocks the other direction.

The customer said it would be 45 minutes. Turns out that was 45 minutes each and they were pretty much done then. BB ate my Fruit Loops that I had gotten as a breakfast somewhere. Saving it for times like these.

It is 1:30 by the time we get out of there.

4th stop is for food. Closest food BB wants is Chic-fil-A. It is now 1 PM and their double line drive thru is still full. So we go inside. Almost empty. Just a few people ahead of us in line.

As soon as we are back in the car, I call the bus dispatcher. Call back tomorrow when I am closer. (We were not planning on making it to that shipper tonight)

No snow, no snow flakes. But lots and lots of rain. On the 2 plus hour drive I rarely had the cruise on and rarely drove the posted. Old man driving.

Mt Shasta would have been pretty this time of year. But today we could not even see the base of it. Fog, clouds and snow. Just not snow where the road was.

5th stop is near Yreka at a rest area.

We wanted to get south of where it was likely to snow.

6th and final stop was Redding. We have all day tomorrow to get less than 200 miles.

Comfort Inn. Not sure what this hotel was before, but it is very Colonial looking. Not the Comfort Inn look, and not the look of anything else in the area.

Still early so we didn't go eat right away. When we did, we walked in the rain to the Hilltop Diner next door. Luckily it was a light rain so we didn't have to drive, but we did get wet.

Good food. BB had the salad bar again. I looked. But it was not ice berg lettuce and the soup was split pea. So instead I got meat loaf ... and a pie malt. BB and I each had about half of the malt. And I could only eat half my meat loaf. And BB only did one trip to the salad bar so we could have saved $1 by only paying for the single trip option.

Load board

US - 145

IA - 8

MN - 2

WI - 4

No timetable for tomorrow yet. It is supposed to rain most of tomorrow across most of the coast. We'll likely hang around until we have to leave. Then eat somewhere and get down near the shipper by 3 PM.