2 RV's to Drapper UT

... spending the night at Coalville UT

Bad night, ate too much food last night.

Up at 5 AM, breakfast a 6 AM. Yogurt for me.

Sun is already up when we are rolling at 6:30, days are getting longer.

1st stop is the Port of Entry for our permits. Busy today. As we were leaving, another driver from our company pulled up next to us. I noticed that his placard was upside down so I mentioned it to him. Didn't sound like he cared.

He was on his way to Bend OR.

The weather is not 'hang on' bad, just some wind and some wet spots. Some could be icy but we didn't hit those.

2nd stop is Laramie at Loves for fuel. This will be our last fill. I put in three gallons less than BB, that should have told me somegothing ... like mine wasn't full. But it had kicked off and was foaming.

There is another new hotel going up by the Pilot in Laramie. No name on it yet. Likely a Marriott.

Somewhere today we saw some deer (?) at the bottom of the ramp. If I had seen them seconds sooner, I would have exited. They were not moving, they looked too big to be deer and the wrong color to be elk. About a half dozen of them.

3rd stop was Rawlins at the TA Country Pride. We had time for a sit down so we took it. Boy did we ever. There was one other table of people when we got there and it took us over a half hour to get our not so great food. Then the person that came in just before we got our food, had their food right after us. Not sure what the hold up was, they didn't say. We will likely not be back. There seemed to be three people waiting on tables and two cooks ... ?

Missed the big dig again today. It is now way off the road and we can only see the top of the boom for a few seconds.

4th stop is Cruel Jacks on Rock Springs for a restroom break. It's faster than getting in and out of anywhere else in the area.

Cummins in Rock Springs is now closed. The Baymont hotel is now the Blue Breeze. Things are changing. The Perkins back in Lincoln NE is now a used car dealer. And the former Bonanza buffet in Des Moines which became a car dealer is now being re-built again ... I looked up Bonanza / Ponderosa, they were merged at some point. In 1989 there were 700 Ponderosa's ... last year they were down to three still open.

We are bucking a head wind almost all day so the range we thought we'd get based on the headwind on Sunday didn't happen. It was worse. Filling in Laramie we thought we'd make to to the drop. But coming into Evanston, I had less than a 50 mile range with 100+ miles to go.

5th stop is for fuel at the Flying J in Evanston. More changes, the Subway is gone so now there is only shelf food. We have time and daylight to get to Draper but decide to stop in Coalville. It's a few miles past Evanston and today the hotel is cheaper than either Draper or Evanston. But no food close.

6th and final stop is the Best Western in Coalville. Once we are checked in, I call the bus dispatcher who has a very vague answer and says call again tomorrow. So ... I guess we will start heading west even without knowing we will have work. Not what we wanted.

Last time we were here I think it was a holiday weekend and almost everything was closed. Today we have choices so we go to the 'Drive-In.' Looks like a former DQ. Food was OK ... and timely. Better than Subway.

We have to drive to get to food and when I started my RV, a warning light came on. So now we need to deal with that in the AM and most likely drop it a shop instead of the dealer. So that may take an extra hour before we can get out of town. The dealer was already closed so I am not sure which dealer I can drop it at.

Load board

US - 168

IA - 23/20

MN -0-

WI - 9

Plan is to start making calls at 7 AM local. Then leave my RV near the rental car place and take the car and BB's RV to the drop. IF the drop will take mine, we will go back and get it. If they will not, we will drop it at the dealer after BB's unit is inspected.

... and then head west.

Not much work out west on the load board. No other options if we do not get a bus.

... But Donner's Pass did open this AM so that will save us three plus hours getting back to CA.