It was a long day yesterday, I know I forgot some of the things I was going to mention. Remembered them during the day and now have forgotten them again.

SureStay, this was our first stay at one. On-line it says it is a new brand. What I have seen, most of the SureStay motels used to be BestWestern. We couldn't get the heat to adjust right (in southern TX,) the pillows were all flat, the stop in the sink was stuck down so we had to use the shower to brush our teeth and was up. I took a shower and it was like only three of the little holes were open on the shower head. The place still only had a few cars in the lot at 6 AM. We left before breakfast.

Plan had been to get going by 7 AM, but we were both up so we were going a little after 6 AM. It was just getting light. We were able to see the buses in the lot where I was supposed to have dropped mine, only about a quarter of a mile from the airport.

Got to our car, and switched our stuff to the new car. No security asking what we were doing when all the agency's are still closed.

Back to the freeway and past our motel before 6:45. BB followed me back to the freeway but from there we were each on our own.

Not too far down the road there had been a major accident in the median. Looked like two cars/pickups had rolled and one must have been pulling a trailer, something had split wide open.

Saw this last night and again this AM, these cars down here that are 'in transit,' a lot of them were pulling two cars, not just one. Wanted to take a picture of the sign we saw last night that said 'Next services 60 miles,' but there wasn't one coming from the south.

Last night I had but in what I thought would be enough fuel to get back to San Antonio. 100 miles from San Antonio I add another 7 gallons. Stop at a Wal-Mart and get it for $1.77 ... in CA we have seen it for over $5.00. But the Walmart is on the wrong side of the freeway so it takes a little time to save that $1. That was near Corpus Christi on I-37.

An hour and a half later I am back in San Antonio, first I add another 2 gallons to bring it back up to 1/2 full and then to the return. Six people ahead of me and they seem to be taking about 20 minutes per. Finally after BB gets there, they realize they are going to need more cars so they take me out of order and check mine in. Another person had been ahead of me to return theirs, but they were in the restroom when they asked. I still think we were there over a half an hour.

BB had stopped and gotten a breakfast sandwich this AM, I had not.

As soon as we had dropped we head to McCalister's up near Salma. BB had some kind of salad and I had a french dip and potato soup. Not enough au jus, other than that, all good.

My mind is slipping. 15 years ago I had ridden the Greyhound from Fort Stockten home via San Antonio. I mentioned to BB that there should be two huge outlet centers just north of San Antonio, there wasn't ... they were closer to halfway between San Antonio and Austin. :)

Our next stop was at Buc-cee's for fuel in Temple, north of Austin. I had never been in one before. Six registers at this exit open with a line waiting. Parking lot is the size of a Walmart in addition to all the parking at the pumps.

After I bought a couple of things at Buc-cee's to 'help me stay awake,' BB decided we should not run too late tonight.

She found a brand new Sleep Inn just north of Fort Worth for $55. She looked at the reviews for motels further down the road, but the reviews were not good. Once past Denton there is not much until we would get to OKC, but that would after 8 PM.

Lots of road construction today so not a whole lot of time driving 75 mph.

Got to the motel around 4:30, checked in and went across the freeway to Braums. Missed our turn so took the long way around. No quick U-turns here in TX. I remember eating at one of these before and BB didn't care for it. She didn't remember and wanted to try it. Still doesn't care for it, we'll see if she remembers this time. She got a small burger and I got the chili and we both got malts. None of the chili is as good as the Big Chief.

Now that we are rid of the 2nd car, BB is in no rush to get home. If we were going to take our time, I would have liked to have headed out to Padre Island. Now I'd like to get home. I had more or less committed to being in town the week before Christmas and now that I can be, I would like to be.

Right now we have about 1,000 miles to make it home ... should be able to do that before dark on Monday.

Sometime this morning I called on one of the orders on the board heading to IA. Only question I asked was if it could be picked up today. "Monday thru Friday only." Didn't bother to ask any other questions. It would have been an easy $500 if we could have done it, only 30 miles out of route.

We did have to go thru one border check this AM, we each were only asked one question "Citizen?" We were in separate cars at the time.

At some point I need to do the math and send in all my breakdown and trip info. Everything has to be mailed at one time, they won't pay anything that is not sent in with the original documents.