Got delayed 3 hours because of a crash, details somewhere below.

Headed out of Guymon, OK at 7:15. Before we left I asked the gal at the desk about the partially built motel across the street. Seems whoever was building it thought there was going to be a new casino in town. Ground finally broke on the casino last week, the hotel was started two plus years ago and is still 'open air.'

BB fueled across the street and I drove twenty miles to fuel in Texhoma at the Loves. She met me there before we headed on. Diesel was cheaper again in Texhoma, TX than she paid, but their prices never show up online and very greatly so we have never chanced it.

Scale is open ... on a Sunday morning. Lights weren't working yet be a guy in the office was flagging us on. We had three semi's following us by the time we got to the scale. I had thought they would pass on the four lane right before the scale but no one seemed to want to be first across the scale so I was. Two of them caught up to us by the next town so I'm not sure if the last one just slowed down or got called in at the scale.

Somewhere yesterday I heard a thud when two birds flew in front of me. BB didn't see the feathers fly and I never looked for damage.

2nd stop this AM was Logan, NM. Never stopped here before, just a gas station with a place for a half dozen trucks to park. Quick bathroom break and a bottle of lemon aid.

From there it is about another half hour to the freeway, an hour of freeway and then another most of an hour to Vaughn on non-freeway. Once at Vaughn we ate a Penny's diner, the former Oak Tree Inn is now a Travelodge. Food was good, had a pattymelt and soup. Wasn't expecting a full bowl, but it was good once it cooled down. Potato, nice small pieces instead of large raw hunks.

BB had to fuel again, she chose a little station instead of the truckstop across from Penny's. Not going to do that again, very tight quarters. Little dings can quickly offset any fuel savings.

I had glanced at the claims at our office before we left on this trip. Something like 80% of the claims are hitting fixed objects. The one that stuck out to me was someone hitting the overhang at the drive-thru. Why would you take an RV through the drive thru ... and you can't eat in the RV. ???

The next two hours are mostly two lane, people not happy with us driving the speed limit. Some guy blew his horn at BB when he went by ... didn't notice anything when he passed me. An hour later he is just getting out of his cab at the same truckstop we stop at. So it gained him a minute or two to pass us.

That stop was in Tularosa, NM, just before Las Cruses. Private truckstop, a few diesel islands and a restaurant. Haven’t noticed if they have showers or not.

From there we were going to make it the two plus hours to Deming for the night. We made reservations before we left the truckstop. Mostly four lane from here, but part of that is on city streets through Las Cruses. Then on to I-10.

13 miles before you motel traffic comes to a stop. At some point we find out that a semi has rolled about a half mile ahead of us. We sat there for three hours. We could soon see the traffic taking a country road to the next exit. Pickups with trailers and even a semi made a U-turn in the median. We didn’t. The temps were working themselves back up into the 90’s. About a half hour before that heavy rains went through. Somewhere in the radio listening area there was hail and frequent lightning, also up to 70 mph winds.

I tried to work on my computer but it was just too hot to sit in the RV not running and there have been issues of warning lights coming on after long hours of idle time. So we mostly stood outside. After I ate a handful of nuts I didn’t feel so well so I sat in the RV the rest of the time until traffic started moving.

After three hours all they had done is moved the semi out of the travel lanes. His load was still spilled on both shoulders. Not sure what he was hauling looked like smaller frozen boxes.

I was in such a rush to move I didn’t close the windows. That’s a problem on an RV because the wind was trying to suck both the plastic seat covers and the curtains out the window. I had to stop but BB went on, she had seen why I needed to stop … and it was getting dark.

The sun sat just as we got off the highway. Also that was the end of our 8 and 14 hours for the day. Close timing. We still could have gone to the next ‘safe place’ after a situation like this.

The only food at this exit was in our motel. We ate before checking in as they closed at 9 PM. We finished and paid right at 9 PM

The motel tonight is the Quality Inn in Deming. We won’t get going quite as early tomorrow because of how late it was tonight.