sleepyWe did not stop in El Paso (although we briefly stopped at the New Mexico Welcome Center). I saw something I'd never seen before on a freeway: Exit 0 on I-10 just before leaving Texas. We got to the hotel in Deming at 6:30 PM, and that puts us about two hours ahead for tomorrow for the next leg of the trip, to Tuscon.
You can blame the approximately 500 messages having to do with post-Worldcon reactions for me having no photos to post. We took none today, but there are a pile in the camera, going back to LSC3, including the Worldcon Chairs Photos.
The Deming HIX gets high marks in some areas. It's brand new but has wired internet, not just wi-fi. The rooms are nice. Lisa says she'd love to have a room like this for a Worldcon: large, comfy, with a full-sized refrigerator (not a mini-fridge), microwave, and wet-bar sink. And working wired internet is a bonus. OTOH, there's only one washing machine (which someone was using), and while they had quarters at the front desk, they had no laundry soap, as they've only recently opened and are awaiting delivery of initial supplies. It does have a significant fault in that there's nothing there but the hotel; not even a mini-market. Still, it's comfortable, and as soon as I get this entry finished, I'm going to use that bed.
Today's progress: 353 miles in 6.5 hours, an astonishing 55 MPH average. That's because a whole lot of that was on 80 MPH freeways.
