We left Salt Lake City area Sunday morning with clear bright sunny skies. What a change from the day before! I don't mind admitting that I would not like to experience that winter driving again anytime soon, but I'm not so naive as to know in the coming weeks and months we most likely will. At least this time I will know what to expect.
We stopped in Wells, Nevada for a shower, then Winnemucca for lunch where we laughed hearing the "girls" at the Pussycat Ranch get on the CB and advertise their establishment. After all, what truck driver could resist the line " conversation without obligation", and free showers, coffee, soda, or ice tea? I guess they could, as I didn't exactly see a parade of truckers going down the road towards the ranch. I was wondering if they had a Tomcat Ranch....Something to think about. HA HA
We arrived in Reno, and the Boomtown Truck Stop around 3pm. After securing a good parking spot we took off to check out the casino. We didn't do much of any gambling, but did play some Keno.
We hit some fog on our way down off the mountain into the Sacramento Valley. Arriving at our destination in Marysville around 8:30am to see one of the other two trucks that had left before us in New York there as well. Somehow, the other driver was still stuck in Wyoming with Interstate 80 having been closed. It took a bit for them to unload the boiler equipment, inspect it, and then get ourselves out of the tiny alley we had to maneuver through. We headed to Yuba City to a very small truck stop with a convenience store that Craig had helped to design while he was still at Nor-Cal Beverage. We actually ended up staying there until late this morning when we were given an assignment to go to Orland, Ca. to pick up a steel tank Thursday morning. Tonight we are comfortably settled in at the Flying J in Corning where we will spend the night before driving back into Orland in the morning to get loaded.
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