Well, I checked into the Micotel Inn in Tucumcari (Sean Hannity recommends it). They have wireless Internet and FREE LONG DISTANCE calls (I was able to finish communicating with my wife!).
I turned on the TV and discovered that all along the route I was going to take out of Tucumcari has severe weather and tornado warnings developing at the very time I would have been driving through there! Maybe this isn’t so bad after all.
