Long day, Texas

Aledo, Texas - Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Morning 59 Degrees, Wind SE at 1 to 2 Mph, Humidity 91%, sunny.

Marthaville, Louisiana
Afternoon 90 Degrees, Wind NNE at 1 to 2 Mph, Humidity 40%, sunny.

That was a rough day’s travel. Started great, early we were on the road before nine and we made good travel time thru fort Worth and Dallas. That is all posted seventy miles per hour and in the country to the east of the cities it is posted seventy five miles per hour.

I am in the right lane

I was in my plan but there was a Bucee’s ahead so we stopped there. That sign was noticed a short time after the right sun shade came down. We were on a wash board type road where we were bouncing around the lane. We made the Bucee’s exit and got diesel fuel, I checked the sun shade but could not do anything until I am able to purchase some screws. 

Now we are in the left lane

As we neared the state line all the traffic east bound traffic came to a stop. We inched along for almost three hours. At first the left lane was moving better than the right lane then there was a gap so I took the left lane then after a gain of one truck we were parallel the rest of the way. Then all traffic had to exit the highway merge with the service road traffic and reenter the highway got Buster up to speed and then another slow down for an over turned truck. I then was going to stop and top off the diesel fuel at the planned fuel stop. After exiting and turning right I needed to turn left (for diesel fuel stop) the turn lane was coned off and police directing traffic. There was traffic coming from the right (US 80) vehicles that were trying to avoid the interstate slowdown and had gotten of at an earlier exit.  Buster is forty feet long and the car is behind there is no backing up only forward so I pulled into a parking lot to u-turn and now there is a line of traffic that lets me in. Now another left (where the police are directing traffic) and reenter the interstate. Traveled two hundred eighty-five miles mostly interstate twenty also interstate forty-nine south, tiring.