Odessa, United States

Oil leak fixed, $45 motel, and within 1-day's range of our motel. Now we're doing a little better. Caught up to a storm front in Nevada around sunset, when thunderstorms are at their most powerful. As we drove past, under the rain-free base, just to ...

Had enough of Frieze, Nichols & Esmond, Surveyors. Heading to Mexico. 

... now, just covering ground.  After a final donut stop at Mister Donut on route 13 I stop  about 2:57 in the morning at the u-turn parking lot in the middle of the dual highway in Odessa, DE.  253.3 miles for the day 

Wind up in Odessa TX . Visit Texas State Employment Dept. Take job as Rod and Chain man on surveyor team with Frieze, Nichols & Co.  Minimum wage.  Stay till early May, saving.  No social life.