Up and down for breakfast before it's over.

Then wait until 10 AM to call the shop. After being on hold for a while they finally come back to the phone and tell me to call back afternoon. So we reserve another car. With no good motels near the shop we will need a car as long as we are in this shop.

No internet in this room, we are as far away from the office as we can get. So I have to 'HotSpot' it to get online every couple of hours to check emails, etc.

After a late checkout we go back up to Chedders in Selma. This time I get the Philly and BB gets the club.

We get back to the car rental place and while we are waiting in line, I call the shop, the bus is next in line at 2 PM. At the rental car place we switch the car we have from a one way to a two day local.

Back to the same motel we have been staying at on I-10. We check in and get a room with WiFi. And I call bus dispatch and let him know what the shop has told me. He suggests I call the shipper.

I call the shipper, and he mis-understands me thinking I am the delivery point and stats explaining where the drivers. No ... I AM the driver, I just want an update on my bus. Seems he knows they are not looking at my bus until today. IF they look at it and order the parts yet today, the shop should have them tomorrow. Otherwise it will be Monday. Then he says to call dispatch, he may want you to come back and get another bus. (I didn't tell him that was not going to happen.) The shipper did tell me before I cut him off that one of the buses in El Paso should be done today, didn't sound like the 2nd one would be.

Neither one of us was hungry but by 7 PM we knew we had to eat something again today so we went back to Denny's. It's within walking distance, but it's dark and we have a car. About three blocks to walk it. 3 miles to drive it because of the one-ways. I had a philly omelette and BB had fish.

:) when we were done eating, I asked BB if she wanted a lollapalooza. She said no, until I told her the closest one was in MN. Didn't realize the only Bridgemans are in MN, plus a few in WI.

Nothing left on the board today out of IA. There are a couple in TX going up to NE but doubt they will be there when we are ready to go. OK, we are ready to go now, but also want to get this thing delivered.