230501 CA-IA
1 city bus to Des Moines IA (delivered)... spending the night at Mason City IA Delivered ! ! No issues. Still no elevator. Walked the stairs for breakfast. Eggs, sausage, etc. Was going to suggest something to the desk clerk but their phone was ringing and I didn't want to spend any extra time. We a...
230430 CA-IA
1 city bus to Des Moines IA... spending the night at Omaha NE Long day yesterday, for us. 550 miles. Not sure what was going on last night. On both my two laptops that I carry with... the mouse would not respond properly. When I was at the desk in the room. When I moved six feet away from the desk a...
230429 CA-IA
1 city bus to Des Moines IA... spending the night at Cheyenne WY No issues today:) Breakfast is getting better here. During covid, breakfast was Ding Dongs and Ho Ho's. Short chat with the desk clerk when we checked out. They said during covid, they were down to 0, 1, 2, 3 people a night. Last night...
230428 CA-IA
1 city bus to Des Moines IA... spending the night at Wendover UT Not a good start to the day. It is only 7 AM local and I have started my bus to find a STOP engine light on. So now we are waiting until the dealer opens at 7:30. Luckily they are two blocks down this same road. Bad news is... this shi...
230427 CA-IA
1 city bus to Des Moines IA... spending the night at Elko NV... another interesting day... It started when I almost poured my left over drink in the garbage... and assumed I was then going to throw the plastic cup in the sink... Two kinds of eggs, two kinds of sausage plus they also had two kinds of...
230426 CA-IA
1 city bus to Des Moines IA... spending the night at Rocklin CA (long day, it is now after 11 PM)... it is now 4/28... I had started the following and then lost everything when I shut off the WiFi. Opps. Breakfast was... Our first stop was the Shell station a few blocks away. Cheaper fuel here than...
230425 IA-CA
2 RV's to 1,000 Oaks CA (delivered)... spending the night at Buellton CA (no work yet, just running late) The Quality Inn in Barstow is another hotel that has a full made to order breakfast in the AM. Less bacon than the Model T in Tucumcari but still good. Breakfast doesn't start until 6:30, by tha...
230424 IA-CA
2 RV's to 1,000 Oaks CA... spending the night at Barstow CA Less than two hours to go in the AM. Breakfast, good food but. I had to find the staff to ask for serving utensils. When they brought them out, I said thank you but got no relay. Other than that one person, everyone else on the PM and AM st...
230423 IA-CA
2 RV's to 1,000 Oaks CA... spending the night at Gallup NM Turns out that only the eggs were made to order. Meat and potatoes, etc were all buffet style. Eggs were good. Bacon could have been warmer, potatoes could have had more flavor... same with the apple juice. Our first stop is just 20 miles do...
230422 IA-CA
2 RV's to 1,000 Oaks CA... spending the night at Guymon KS The only hot part about breakfast was biscuits and gravy so I had yogurt and two cartons of juice. It is a sunny AM. Cold but no snow or rain. Even this far south there was a freeze warning last night. Lots of trees in full bloom, not sure i...
230421 IA-CA
2 RV's to 1,000 Oaks CA... spending the night at Kearney MO Besides taking my blood pressure every day including when we are on the road, I also weigh in every morning when we are home. Both are helpful to my keeping my DOT card. Today it helped in another way. I can't remember my weight for long so...
230420 MN-NE
1 trash truck to South Sioux City NE (delivered) 2 RV's to 1,000 Oaks CA (Friday)... spending the night at home Breakfast... for us and others (?) Last night the parking lot was full when we went for a walk, this AM there was a semi parked where many cars had been last night. Either that trucker sho...
230419 IN-MN
1 RV to Ramsey MN (delivered) 1 trash truck to South Sioux City NE... spending the night at Worthington MN Breakfast is eaten and we are ready to roll at 7:30. It is raining, raining enough that I pull the RV around under their entry to go in and check out. Hadn't thought of doing that for BB and ou...
230418 IN-MN
1 RV to Ramsey MN... spending the night at Black River Falls WI What a day... a long day for us. As far as I can remember, everything went OK in the early AM. I had been screaming at kids in my dreams so that had me wondering how my real day was going to go. We pull out at our usual time. At some po...
230417 OH-OH
2 RV's to Dayton OH (delivered) 1 trash truck to Fairfield OH (delivered) 1 RV to Ramsey MN (Tuesday)... spending the night at Fort Wayne OH The transporter I was talking to last night is leaving about the time we are getting up. Breakfast last night at the Waffle House was better than this AM's bre...
230416 IA-OH
2 RV's to Dayton OH... spending the night at Englewood OH Last night... It rained, down poured. And hailed, small pea sized this time. Then later I went out to get my jacket and there was still a light show going on. By using my phones video, I was able to get a good picture of the lightning. This A...
230415 IA-OH
2 RV's to Dayton OH... spending the night at Morton IL Pretty skimpy breakfast. I had two yogurts and a hard boiled egg. We are up at our usual time but don't leave the hotel until after 8 AM. 'Rumor has it' that this shipper is wholesaling close to 1,000 vans. They come in as Sprinter or ProMaster...
230414 MN-IA
1 Trash truck to Peosta IA (delivered) 2 RV's to Dayton OH (Saturday)... spending the night at Mason City IA BB is up early this AM, too many things going on in her mind. So I'm up a little early too so we do get going a little earlier than most days. When we are coming back from breakfast, the nigh...
230413 MN-IA
1 Trash truck to Cedar Rapids IA (delivered)... spending the night at Waterloo IA Hostage Situation - IMO When we look at our emails this AM, we have one. Our email host has changed their rules and we are now 3x over on storage. They do this without any recent warning (they likely sent us something...
230412 IL-ND
1 Tanker to Bismarck ND (delivered)... spending the night at Fergus Falls MN Eating that lasagna last night that had been in the cooler all day turned out to be a bad idea. No the food wasn't bad, but too much of that kind of food too late at night does not agree with me.:( This AM I just had some e...
230411 IL-ND
1 Tanker to Bismarck ND... spending the night at Alexandria MN We are up at our usual time, that is why I told the shipper we would be there around 8 AM. We were planning on eating closer to noon today so we did eat breakfast before we left the hotel. Eggs and bacon. We finally threw my spiced apple...
230410 MN-IL
1 Refer to Marengo IL (delivered) 1 Tanker to Bismarck ND (Tuesday)... spending the night at Elgin IL Up without the alarm clock. I eat leftovers for breakfast as I do not plan on stopping for food once I am in the truck. We are rolling within minutes of our planned time. Almost no rush hour this AM...
230407 MN-IL
1 Refer to Marengo IL (Monday)... spending the night at home No work lined up so we are watching the load board when dispatch opens. Mid-morning I finally call dispatch about the MN to IL trip... and find out the RV shipper is not working today. What we see on the loadboard is all we will see this w...
230406 IA-MN
1 RV to Ramsey MN (delivered)... spending the night at home Up at 6 AM, rolling at 7 AM. Didn't mention last night that when we got home, it looked like a tornado had hit our neighborhood. Trees and branches everywhere. Guess it was the combination of heavy wet snow and then the wind. By the time it...
230405 IA-SC
2 RV's to Greer SC (delivered) 1 RV to Ramsey MN (Thursday)... spending the night at home Alarm goes off at 6 AM. By 7 AM we are ready to leave. By the time we reach the outside door, we realize that we have forgotten our cooler and items in the fridge. So I go back in and BB heads to the car. I gra...
230404 IA-SC
2 RV's to Greer SC (delivered)... spending the night at Morton IL I had woken up a couple of times during the night, one time I thought I had heard BB taking tums as she sometimes does. I finally wake up out of a deep sleep at 7:30 AM. 10 plus hours of sleep. At some point BB tells me she had been t...
230403 IA-SC
2 RV's to Greer SC (delivered)... spending the night at Knoxville TN We are back to eating three meals a day. That starts with breakfast before we hit the road so we have been up since 5:30 eastern. Early, for us. It is the first time we have seen a sunrise in a while. 1st stop is back across the st...
230402 IA-SC
2 RV's to Greer SC... spending the night at Corbin KY No breakfast and we are leaving the hotel at 7 AM. 1st stop is at Pittsboro at a Loves for fuel. It is only an hour down the road. Less than two hours between all of our stops today. Fuel pump was running slow today. So slow that there was not en...
230401 IA-SC
2 RV's to Greer SC... spending the night at Danville IL We are/were trying to cut back on eating so today we were going to eat a late breakfast and then one more meal. Late ended up being before 9 AM. I had an omelette, bacon, potatoes and yogurt. We spent the morning watching the weather maps to se...
230331 IA-SC
2 RV's to Greer SC... spending the night at Charles City IA No alarm, no rush. We leave the house at 8:30. It has rained, is raining and will be snowing here. Where we are going it they are expecting storms. Lightning, hail, rain and then wind until sometime around tomorrow noon. If we were going to...