Making some miles now - we make it to Albuquerque, NM

After a liesurely morning, we finally got around to pulling awas from the curb Saturday around noon. As I pulled away, the trailer rolled very irregularly and we both heard the loud thump-thump of a very flat tire (more like a shredded tire that was rolling off of the rim).

As it happens, the motel was directly across the street from a BigO tire store, so I rolled directly into a repair bay, called AAA to verify that they would reimburse me, and had a brand new tire put on the trailer. Although the circumstances seem a bit suspicious (the tire was fine when we went to bed. How did it get shredded while we slept?), the repair was painless and took up little extra time.

Once we hit the road, we wanted to get as many miles under the wheels as possible, so I basically drove all day and most of the night; finally making Albuquerque, New Mexico around 10AM the following day (Sunday, April 15th).

We will be staying here for the next few days so I can get some coding done for work so we located a suite-style hotel with a hot tub, high-speed Internet access and office facilities for my use.

We made about 473 miles in this run. Starting to get warmed up!