Considering that Becca didn’t start crying until 430am, you would think that I got a good nights sleep last night. I did not. The room across from ours also had a dog… so they all barked at each other. Rather incessantly. Until about midnight.

Needless to say, neither Sara nor I slept all that well.

Unfortunately, that meant when Becca woke up, I was in my witching hour; by the time she was fed and asleep, I was WIDE awake. I tried to go back to sleep, but it was rather pointless. Thus, Sara and I got on the road early too.

The roads were not amazing. They alternated between ice, snow, neither, and both. However, they were plowed, which is critical given that the car doesn’t have 4-wheel drive.

Given Sara’s desire to stay away from toll roads, we ended up on some lesser highways, which actually worked in our favor because they were plowed and salted like the main roads, but had significantly less traffic. The downside was that some genius put round-a-bouts on roads with a speed limit of 65mph. Needless to say, I didn’t take them at 65mph, as they were definitely too sharp for that even in perfect weather.

Starting about noon, we had to decide whether we were going to stop in Woodward, OK or push on to Pampa, TX. Sara wanted to push on because the southern route to CA is long to make in two days from Oklahoma, but I knew I couldn’t sustain my driving for another two hours. There were two parts to that; the first, of course, being my lack of sleep. The second was Sara’s lack of sleep; she was no longer able to hold a conversation with me because she was too sleepy herself.

Since the sun was shining and the road was clearer, she suggested she drive the last two hours to get us to Pampa. However, she admitted she couldn’t do it unless the road was completely clear. When we encountered a patch of ice just outside of Woodward, she caved.

I want this noted for posterity: even if the weather forces us to take the southern (and longer) route tomorrow, I think the decision to stop today was the correct choice. (Especially since we’re the only guests in this hotel tonight, which means we got an amazing room and the dogs are MUCH quieter.)

(Please excuse any sleep-deprived errors which may have occurred in the writing of this.)