Tulsa,OK

Since we have to be in Springfield,OH in the morning, we picked up the speed yesterday when we hit Arizona and have been going 65 mph ever since. Luckily, coming east, we are currently getting 6.8 mpg. Happy happy! If we can keep this speed up and minimize our stops we can make it to the receivers around 0800 tomorrow morning. Only 3 hours late but not bad considering we were 7 hours late leaving the shipper. And there is a bonus that this is just a drop and pick up an empty so we don't have to worry about missing an actual appointment to be live unloaded. I did 619 miles today. Been a while since I have done over 500 since we slowed down to 55. But I did feel like I actually made it somewhere going the faster speed!

I am still gearing up for the cruise. Got a message yesterday from Michelle. She got a call from her cruise booking agent, or someone with the cruise line. She was told that Carnival struck a deal with the new port in Houston and Carnival will be docking out of there until the repairs on Galveston are made after the devastation that Hurricane Ike caused. We were worried that it would be cancelled at the last minute, so we were extremely happy to hear that it was still on and that we would have an hour less to drive to get to the boat! There are six of us girls going and we will drive down Friday afternoon, spend the night in Houston and then head to the boat Saturday afternoon. I think we have to be on board by around 1500 and she departs at 1800. Or something like that. I'm so excited!!!

Our FM sent a message that we may have a load out of MI back to CA for a Monday morning delivery. It is a hazmat load and loads at noon. It will be tight to make it on time, but if we can make it in and get dropped by 0830 and back on the road, we should be able to make it with no problems. And being hazmat it should pay decent AND it will make it on to next Friday's paycheck. Cha-ching!!!