Californication

We finally got our fuel filter and it helped a little, but we think we got some bad fuel; we kept having issues off and on. We made it to China Lake and unloaded early and headed back to Barstow to a truckstop with Idleaire. We had a great breakfast and just got settled in for a nap when we got another load and needed to leave right away.

We drove to Santa Clarita, got loaded and headed out to Long Island, NY. Dana was so tired, since he drives the night shift and hadn't really gotten any sleep. We made it through the night and began looking at our logs and realized we wouldn't have enough hours available to take the load to NY. We calculated how long we could drive and how far in that time and called dispatch to alert them. They were a little surprised to get notice almost 24 hours in advance and we made arrangements to head to a UPS Freight location to made the swap. Later in the day, we got a call from the other team. They were ready to meet up and head out, but I explained we were still in New Mexico and we would be there in the morning.

Well, we finally made it to St. Louis and unloaded the truck. Immediately, the truck died thanks to the lousy fuel. After about an hour, we got her started again and headed to the truck stop. We made it through the fuel line and into a spot with Idleaire and we are now just chillin'. We hope to go see the arch tomorrow. We can see the top of it from here. I'll add a slide show of some pictures we took going through the desert.