2 RV's to Davis CA

... spending the night at Elko NV

Spent last night in Rawlins at the Comfort Inn

We don't want to get going too early this AM because of our NV permit. Breakfast was egg patties and sausage.

Inspecting at 7:30 local. Sun is up and on my windshield but not on BB's. Frost this AM.

Pretty quiet day. Saw one other Ekko at the Flying J in Rawlins. Don't remember any other driveaway coming or going.

1st stop is in Rock Springs at Cruel Jack's. We used to stop here for fuel before the Loves in Green River opened. They had a fire a few years ago and it burnt down the attached A&W. They started rebuilding the A&W, it is still on the highway sign, but then changed it too a GodFathers Express. And they completely re-did the whole store. Nice new restrooms, new layout. It used to be an old 'hole in the wall' place.

2nd stop was in Fort Bridger for fuel and Burger King for food. My low fuel light came on before we got there but it is coming on now when I still have about a 100 miles range. I did try the new candied bacon but they put too much pepper on it. And it wasn't a Whopper Jr so it was a lot of food for me.

When we are done inside, we have to make phone calls. First call is to RV dispatch, my RV has a warning light on. They suggested I drive it a couple of more days to see if it goes off. I'm good with that. Then I'll get paid all my miles.

Next call is for permits. We had talked about what time to get the permits for last night, and again just before I called. But as soon as I hung up, BB thought I got them for the wrong time, that we would be sitting at the border for an hour waiting to go in. But, they are now ordered, we have to adjust.

Then I call the drop. Today they are making appointments. Don't remember that happening ever before and we have been delivering to this customer for the last almost nine years and this is their third location. So we need to now be there at 9 AM for one and 9:30 for the other. Not sure how my warning light issue plays into that ...

And last I call the bus dispatcher to let them know I was on my way. Monday doesn't look good now ... so we will talk Monday about Tuesday. I'm good with that. We'll end up with two days off, just a couple of hours work in the middle.

Still bucking a headwind. Forgot to look at my mpg today. Likely closer to 14 than 19. When we left Fort Bridger I had a range of 318 (vs 440 yesterday.) 130 miles later when we stopped in Tooele I had a range of 320. All down hill, almost.

4th stop was the Flying J in Tooele for a break.

5th stop was at the Wendover rest area for a break and to wait until our permits were good ... :) Our permits were good 20 minutes ago. BB's math was bad at noon. If it hadn't taken us a full hour, slow service, at Burger King, we would have been to the border within a couple of minutes of our permit.

Just before the rest area, there is a 'tree' with a few large balls on it and a cracked one on the ground. My guess is it is a disguised cell tower. Anyway, today was the first time I had seen people parked at the tree. I assumed people did because of the things they would leave, but today someone was actually stopped.

Water was a little higher that the last few times. Before people were driving off the rest area onto the flats. Today a few kids were wading in the water.

From here I tried to call one of the west coast dispatchers. Their number on the website is disconnected. So BB found another one, someone finally answered but they would have to have someone call me back. That doesn't work. I'm driving. I was going to ask about their CA trips. They have 12 ranging from 47 to 470 miles. Most starting close to where we drop. But that will have to wait now until Monday.

5th stop is the Comfort Inn in Elko. It's been a while since we have been here. With the buses we stay at the Holiday Inn. The Comfort has tight turns and tree overhang to get to their lot. Not worth it.

As soon as we are checked in, we call the Pizza Barn next door. Food is ready in 30 minutes this time. Once when we were there, by the time we finally got our food, they were telling new orders that there was a ... two hour wait.

Load board

US - 161

IA - 41/40

MN - 1

WI - 1

Tomorrow ... rolling early to get out of the state before the permit expires. We both 'might' make it to the next cheap fuel, but we will put in a couple of gallons here in town before we leave. Then the next stop will be our final fill, we hope. We might have to add more or might leave 10 gallons depending on the winds.

2nd stop will be food, 3rd will be the rest area at Donners Pass and then the Rocklin hotel for the rest of the weekend. Not the cheapest but a big parking, lots of food within walking distance and seems to be a safe area. Just wish there was hiking trails less than a mile away. A mile is still our hike, so we'd only get halfway there.