Good news. The ice warning that was for this morning has shrunk and we shouldn't hit ice until Dallas.

One phone is routing us one way and the other another. We take the route BB's phone says because there is a truckstop with a good price on fuel. BUT that is when things don't go so well. I've had this company card for two plus years but never used it. Not sure what the answer's are to their security questions ... PIN, truck #, etc. And after three times it locks you out. So now I am locked out and don't want to deal with it until Monday. So I ended up paying $.15 more a gallon than I could have if I hadn't tried to use the company card. But we were here and I didn't want to stop again. So ended up putting in enough fuel to get to where we will stop tonight. That will bypass the cheaper fuel we were going to buy later today.

Once we are back on the road I asked where the next turn was, we had already past it. It wasn't my suggested route so I had not looked at the details on this one. But I knew that if we kept going we would hit Dallas/Ft Worth in about 20 miles and we did.

We also hit the weather. Half a dozen major accidents from the ice. Semi's, cars lots of them near bridges which freeze faster. Spent a good part of the day going 20-35. Haven't seen the daily total for accidents yet. Bus was still iced up when we stopped tonight and the ice hasn't gotten here yet. We got ahead of it about the last hour of the day.

That first stop was at a Loves in Rhome, then we stopped for lunch at a Country Pride/TA in Terrell for lunch. Had the buffet, all was good. We had pulled off the interstate earlier at a TA but all it had was fast food so we kept going. Walking was quite icy and the ice pellets were hitting hard when we walked in. It had past by the time we came back out but we caught up to it quickly.

Decided I wanted to stay on this side of Shreveport instead of back tracking to fuel and the wash so we ended up in Marshall at a Comfort Inn. We checked in, and by the time we got back down to get the rest of our bags it was sleeting. Can't leave any bags in the bus because we can't lock it so it takes two trips.

Tomorrow/Monday I will call and see what are all the numbers I need to use this card. So that may delay how early we get going in the morning. Checked through all my old paperwork tonight to see if I could find any numbers, didn't find anything.

Kansas City is about 10 hours from Monroe so we won't likely make it that far, quite a few miles of non-freeway to start with.