Super 8 Motel, Gallup, New Mexico

I notice that there are computers with internet access everywhere now. I went to Jiffy Lube the other day and there was a computer in the waiting room, and now as I'm waiting for my continental breakfast to toast at the Super 8 Motel, I see there's one here in the corner of the lobby, too. Wow.

Day one of travel took a very long time. The TripTik I'm using gave me a total day's distance of 20 miles less than it actually was, so that was a little annoying. I drove about 670 miles, from just before noon to about 10pm PST. Of course, it's Mountain Time here, so I lost an hour, too. The cats did sort of okay. They haven't eaten anything yet, even though I gave them some canned food at the motel, and offered them dry food and water both during rest stops and here in the room. I guess they'll eat eventually. I ended up letting them out of the carriers at the first rest stop, and they promptly scurried into the even more confined spaces under the seats. So I took out the leashes and attached them to the seat heads, so they could roam about while I drove and I wouldn't have to worry about shoving them back in the carriers when I needed to stop for gas and such.

They ended up towards the end squishing into one carrier and cuddling (from fear). So I just locked that one up and brought it to the motel. I'm leaving this place in a couple hours, and only have to do about 530 miles today, so I'm hoping it will be a little easier today.