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 that time all the construction crews are gone.

It takes us a little longer to get and eat our breakfast so we are not quite ready to leave at 7 AM. (local) When we do go down to our RV's I notice some black pieces by BB's RV that look like a crushed plastic spoon. Kind of shiny. I mention it to BB and then we do our inspection. By the time I have dropped off our room keys, BB has called dispatch.

The people we needed to talk to were busy so we had to wait a while and while we were waiting, we kept trying to figure out where the shiny stuff was going from. We did find out the where, but never the why. We finally did talk to the office and they contacted the shipper who gives us the OK to run as is. Somehow BB and I seen to get the issues that have to be dealt with by the shipper ???

All this took an hour plus.

15 miles and we are fueling at the Loves still in Barstow. We took our current range, added the extra miles needed to get to the drop and added 40 miles. Safe, but the low fuel light will be on.

Early in the AM there was over an hour difference between the north and south route, now there is only a few minutes so we opt to stay on the freeway. Easier for me as we have traveled it enough I know all the highway numbers and where the turns are ... sort of.

I do second guess myself a couple of times but pick the correct route. Seems to take a lot longer than the GPS had said. It should be just over the two hour mark so BB decides we can make it without more stops ... now that we are running late.

BB's GPS maps were wrong, but I knew the logic of how to get there so we got on the correct street. Fueled and then back tracked to the dealer. This place is packed. Completely. there is room for three RV's in the driveway and we fill two of those spots.

They tell us they will be washing them before inspecting them and where we can grab a bite to eat. Instead we both walk down to the rental car place to get our car while we wait. We just stack our stuff in the waiting area and leave it.

Even with getting there over the lunch hour and them washing them, we were still in and out in about an hour. And they found one of our placards that we both had forgotten about. Not a big deal but it means we don't have to make new ones yet.

The first thing I do when we get in our car after delivery is call the bus dispatcher. He was expecting me tomorrow. I mention that I can be there in the AM tomorrow instead of the evening when the next days buses are released. This dispatcher has also had tree chippers on the loadboard lately but doesn't offer me one of those so I'm guessing there is a good chance I'm getting a bus ... going somewhere.

The inspector here had some suggestions on where we could eat. But we are on the west coast so when we have delivered ... we go to In-n-Out. After eating, we decide to head up the '101' instead of taking the shorter way up I-5.

After an hour we stop for a restroom. The rest area is closed so we pull into town. The gas stations don't look very inviting so we go to the grocery store and buy something after we use the restroom. Expensive vs Walmart, but this town didn't have a Walmart.

We've gone less than two of our five hours to the bus shipper but BB is ready to stop. I don't want to get a room until after 5 PM local in case we do get a bus for early tomorrow. So I look for a park. We find one a few blocks away and walk for most of a mile.

... then we make reservations at the Quality Inn. This one is about half the price of the hotels in the next few towns. This town is inland and away from the beaches.

Food. We wanted Anderson's Split Pea soup, but they are closed Tues and Weds. The places the RV inspector suggested are $20+ a plate. And we ate In-n-Out late so we aren't hungry. Finally at close to 9 PM home time, we go to Panda and get mostly rice and noodles with a few pieces of meat thrown on top. Still, too much food too late.

Load board

US - 192

IA - 39/36

MN - 5

WI - 17

Plan for tomorrow is to get the last three hours up to the shipper before rush hour starts. Then depending on the weather, we will either walk at another park, walk at the outlet mall or just sit in our car and wait.