It took longer than normal in the morning to get the moving truck as the old guy at the Budget rental office had an old-fashioned tube computer, and it and the Budget rental software wasn't working right. Over and over he tried to complete the rental before it finally took. Then, after I drove the truck to Tammy's house, he called and Tammy had to go back to his office as he still hadn't completed the rental correctly.
It took four hours to load everything in the truck. Because we were pulling the mini-van behind the truck the minimum size of the truck was 16 ft. While that was larger than what we thought we needed, Tammy didn't sell her furniture as planned. We filled the truck. We had left a few items at my brother's house so the photo below doesn't show how full the truck was when we left Rochester.
It was after 3 pm when we finished loading the truck: too early to stay in Rochester and too late to drive all the way to Minot. Then I remembered my friends Francis and Linda in eastern North Dakota. A perfect distance. And I hadn't seen them for a few years now. A quick call to them and then Tammy and I were on our way.
A fully loaded truck pulling a mini-van can't go very fast so the drive took a lot longer than normal as we couldn't even make it up to the highway speed limit. What could be done in five hours took us seven.
I had concerns about driving this big rig around the Twin Cities due to all the traffic. But the traffic wasn't too bad and we didn't hold people up much.
We had a nice chat with Francis and Linda and slept on a comfortable air mattress on their living room floor. Tammy and I got a late start after noon Tuesday as we chatted with Francis all morning.
The highway between Jamestown and Minot is mostly two-lane. The traffic was light so we didn't hold up many vehicles with our slow speed. It took five hours to get to Minot.
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