Left out of Albuquerque right about sun up. Not sure how close, even at the time, because the sun was already a ways up in the sky or there was a huge sun dog a ways up in the sky. But the time we cleared the hills the elevation, etc had changed so it was hard to tell which it had been.

Last time we stayed at this motel I wrote that they had garlic bread for breakfast, nope, it was potato cakes. Managed to get out of the lot without blowing the horn again. :)

Plan was to stop at a rest area a couple of hours down the road and then another hour to the Loves in Tucumcarri. But I got nervous when the fuel gauge stayed on a quarter for an hour so we skipped the rest area and stopped in Santa Rosa at Loves. Glad I did, once I stopped at the Loves the gauge laid flat on E. This is why I don't like truck stops, it took a half hour, every pump had a line and with a bus I can't fuel until the person ahead of me has left. Most pull ahead to go in but my fuel tank is in the back of the bus so I have to wait until they are gone. At least I wasn't in the line next to me. The guy pulled ahead, then went in and bought Carl Jr's and who knows what else. It took a half hour but this time I did get my discount. Fuel here was a little more than in Tucumcarri but less than it costs for them to bring it to me when I'm on the side of the road.

From here we did almost three hours to Amorillo, to the Petro/Iron Skillet. Should have just had the soup and salad but I did the whole buffet. Didn't need that much food and it wasn't that good. Soup and salad was good and I left full.

When we got near Strattford traffic came to a standstill. I thought it looked like it was stopped ahead but because of the lay of the land I wasn't sure until I was fairly close and put the breaks on kind of hard. BB thought I wasn't going to get stopped before I hit the truck ahead of me. I was watching the truck but also the guy behind me. He was pulling a trailer and when I looked back, it was swaying behind him and almost disappearing in a cloud of smoke from his tires. Not sure what the cause was, a couple of minutes later all lanes started moving again.

Had a couple of more beeps this morning, the one time I did see a red icon on my dash, it only lasted as long as the beep just a fraction of a second. Later I did a video of the icon's lighting up when I started the bus so I could see which icons it might have been. One of the four in that area is a communication fault, I'm guessing that is the one it was.

After I picked up the bus I had asked both dispatch and the permit company if I needed a permit for Oklahoma, they said I didn't but this is my first trip though OK with these buses. At the OK scale I stop where the sign was, but then pulled ahead and waited for the scale to open once I was past the stop sign. When I got on the scale I was told not to do that, stay behind the stop sign until the scale is clear. Whew ... if the worst that happens is I get scolded like that ... and he was nice about it. No mention of a permit.

Stopped at the welcome center a couple miles down the road in Erick. From there it was only an hour to Weatherford. I still have hours but this place worked. I had forgotten what the name of the place was we were staying, just had the exit number. Pasted the signs for our motel without realizing it, and our exit was gone. Grass grows where the road once was, so I had to go to the next exit and come back.

We stayed at the Comfort Inn in Weatherford, walked across the parking lot to the El Patio, another Mexican restaurant. We had looked at a couple of other ones but they were closed on Sunday's.

Tomorrow will be the tight one, we should have enough hours to get to Springfield IF there are no delays, then less than four hours to St Louis.

Most likely we will be heading home from St Louis, not sure what we will do for the extra five days ... plus the five we had already planned on being home.