Awake by 5:30, breakfast at 6:30. Great spread, three kinds of eggs, five kinds of dry cereal, real plates, bakery donuts. But that was the second night in a row where we've spent over $100 for a room.

Ice on the windows of the bus, thought we'd be rolling by 7 AM, it was closer to 7:15. Thought I'd get my inspection and fuel done in 15 minutes, took a half hour. And every minute today counts. I am up against my rolling 70 hours and can only work the same number of hours that I did that day eight days ago. Today is 10 hours. Long lines at the Flying J so I fueled at the RV pump ... and didn't get my discount. The discount would have been worth well over $10 so I will be on the phone Monday to find out the why. My guess is that I have to fuel at the diesel islands. Traffic was thick at the station so I tried to back out. That didn't work so I did get out going ahead, but no one wanted to move when the light turned green so I missed the light, the guy ahead of me, ran the red.

Finally rolling. Suns up, bus is getting warm. And it starts beeping. Did it maybe a dozen times. No dash lights were going off, sounded maybe like it was coming from the computer which is in a locked cabinet behind me. Only happened this morning, no sounds this afternoon.

Glad we didn't have to go any further last night. There was one of our RV's in the lot at the Flying J hanging with ice. Roads were clear but wet. Quite a bit of snow at the higher elevations. Looks pretty now.

First stop was Bellemont at a Pilot, again the rest area was closed. Thought about taking a half hour break so I could log it differently but didn't.

No traffic issues, it's Saturday so not real heavy traffic anywhere. Did have one semi come into my lane with all of his right tires as he was passing me, blew the horn and he got so he was just riding the white line.

Stopped at the Hopi travel center just east of Holbrook. Had wanted a sit down meal but the restaurant is now closed. Signs say remodeling, but internet reviews say it has been closed for a while. It was open the last time we were here. There also had been a barbershop and a Dr's office. A second fast food place had just closed before we were here last time and nothing has replaced it. Only Burger King remains. Plus a couple of local native American shops, they are the ones that own this place.

Still can't tell if I will make it to ABQ tonight, it will be close. Grant's is our backup plan. We do just a quick stop at the NM welcome center, I don't even go in. Every minute will count as to how far we will get. It's not that big of deal, we have more than enough time to make it to St Louis before they close on Tuesday, we just like to get the most of every day.

Once we clear the Port of Entry it looks like we might make it. I'm doing the math every few miles and we are holding at 20 minutes to spare. Any major slowdowns and I could easily be over my hours. We make it to Grants and we are still good, I'm not going to need any more fuel before tomorrow so that helps. Otherwise there is a Loves right before the motel that is the cheapest in the area, but stopping could use up all of the 20 minutes.

We make it ...

The Quality Inn in Albuqueque again, the Mexican restaurant again. Blew the horn again ... Had pulled in to park and wanted to see how close I was so I got out to look .... HOOOOOOOONK. Thought I had learned after three times, nope.

We do go for a 30 minute walk before we eat and take the long way back. And we got an upgrade so we have a really nice room for the night.

I can't work over 9 hours tomorrow and 7 on Monday, but depending on where motels are cheapest we may work less than 9 tomorrow. It looks like we should be near Joplin Tuesday morning, that will leave about 5 hours before our drop. That part looks good. There is also an Avis a block from my drop so another thing that looks good. Driving 65 mph so I won't do quite as well on the fuel but may still make $100 plus just on fuel.

Not sure what we will do when we get back on Wednesday. We don't really have time to do a 1,000 mile run unless they will take them on Saturday. And we don't make much money on the shorter runs ... and we've already made twice as much this month as some months.