Tuesday's travels from Wichita to Tucumcari, NM

After a free hot breakfast at Best Western hotel we left Wichita about 7:45 so we could travel in daylight. It is snowing and 15 degrees with a wind chill of minus 1.   Headed south again on 35 to try and avoid the snow. Skirted Oklahoma City by 10:30, with a north wind which is making driving difficult for Kirk.  Mileage dropped from 11.5 MPG to 9.5 and lower.  Not much scenery in OK, mostly red rock and juniper bushes with some wind turbine farms and a few oil wells.  It's been a very cloudy day with dropping temps (lowest we saw was 8). We stopped at a rest stop west of Amarillo TX to let the dogs out, I didn't volunteer to get out of the truck!  Still snowing. We decided to stay in Tucumcari NM tonight since it's been such a tiring day of driving with the strong cross winds.  Could not get in at the Holiday Inn Express so went next door to the La Quinta and got one of the last rooms. Luckily they take dogs!  We went to the K-Bobs Steak House next door (thank goodness we could eat somewhere that wasn't fast food) but their power was acting up so my food was cold and there was smoke in the air because their exhaust fans weren't working.  They couldn't take credit cards so we had to pay cash.  Mostly older couples were there, obviously other snowbirds trying to find warmer weather!!   We got a fraud alert on both our credit cards today- we forgot to call them and tell them we'd be traveling.  Always a good idea to do that before you leave! Attaching a picture I took out the window at the rest stop in Texas and when we entered New Mexico.  BRRR- can't wait to get somewhere warm!