First a couple of notes from yesterday. Bus and flood. When we went through Belen it looked like they had been flooded out. Washouts back into the orchards 8 foot deep. Water in lawns and in the ditches. But I couldn't find anything online recently. So it may be that the damage was from before and the water from yesterday. The bus issue that is making the news is from Albuquerque. They purchased battery/electric buses that were supposed to last 250 miles between charges. And they created routes based on those miles. But now the buses are only lasting 180 miles so they can't complete their routes. This is not any of the bus companies I drive for.

We were not up and driving at daylight today. We slept in. We left the motel at 8:15 local so we will not be doing a 12 hour day today.

1st stop was Santa Rosa at the Pilot for gas and a rest stop. Fuel was cheaper in Tucumcarri but that would have been an extra stop. I mis-guessed how much fuel we needed. Cheapest fuel will be in Texahoma.

2nd stop was in Delhart at a BBQ place. We have walked by it a number of times walking to the buffet but has always been closed before. I had the ham sandwich, BB had the beef. When we walked in all the tables were dirty and they told us to sit and they would clean the ones we were sitting at. Not great food but good, and a good change from fast food.

3rd stop was Meade, OK at a non-chain truck stop. Besides the rest room we bought food to keep me awake.

4th and final stop was in Pratt, KS. We first stopped at Dillion's grocery store to see what they had in their deli. Nothing we wanted so we ended up at McD's and got it to go. And then a few more blocks to the Comfort Inn for then night.

Not much of note on the highway today. Most of this road is the 4th time we have traveled this month. Cattle and crops are growing.

Now that we are done with this trip we are looking at the rest of this month and into next month. But the number of trips on the board is dropping, down about 30 units again today. There likely won't be many choices by this weekend and we will be waiting for new trips to be posted. We had thought we would do a quick trip next week and then be off for 30 days. Now it looks like we may be able to take two short trips next month. But we will also be looking how much we can make.

Looking back at the last bus trip I did, we only made $30 more dollars over the eight days after we dropped our RV's. That $30 isn't the full picture as we would have had to rent a car, pay extra motels and gas if we hadn't taken the bus but we do need to keep watching the numbers.

As of now we should be home Thursday afternoon and leaving again Sunday for 10 days.