I was hoping to get out of Farmington this morning around 9:30am but I had to try and get this room thing settled with the Manager. After about 30 minutes, they agreed to make a financial adjustment to all the rooms – both for me and for the Presenter who was paying for two nights of our lodging. That’s the good news.
We were finally on the road around 10am, heading toward Amarillo, TX. The weather turned really bad with all kinds of severe thunderstorms, damaging hail, tornados, etc. We decided to stop in Tucumcari, NM for the night, about 100 miles west of Amarillo.
This hasn’t been a great day for me. I’m feeling really poor today. I’m sure that we’ll all tired but this morning I also woke up really sick. There’s nothing worse than being far from home and feeling really bad. I really didn’t feel like driving at all today but the Department of Transportation and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has made some major changes to the way we have to do things…and that means I’m the only one who can drive at the moment (some of you may remember reading about those challenges in my blog last March 2006). I’ve still got so much work to try and do tonight and I really don’t feel like doing it. But, it’s one of those things – has to be done and no one else can do it. Hopefully, I’ll have a strong internet connection and things will go quickly.
The television has nothing but weathermen talking about the “major concerns” and “rotation” that is surrounding us here in Tucumcari – BAD weather all around us! It’s a good thing we pulled over early!