Woke up to a nippy 7 degrees with the
promise of sunshine. Blue sky is peeking
out between the clouds over Dalhart with the sky to the west looking cloud free. Bring it on!!
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Kim had set an informal mileage goal yesterday…having goals is a good thing but along with that we had to keep lodging in mind because the camper was not an option on a single digit night. Hotels on our route hadn’t been real plentiful but a quick search on my phone indicated that there were numerous options in Dalhart in various price ranges.
With one stop we found that not all hotels had adequate parking for our rig and not all prices were as listed online. Ugh! Calling seemed a better idea so the Best Western was first up. Yes, they had rooms but for slightly more than listed, a king was cheaper than a double queen and they had room to park the truck. Thank you for the information…maybe I’ll give you a call back. I then went online to make a reservation for a king room at the Best Western. It cost $20 less online through a third party vendor (SnapTravel) than the price quoted directly from the hotel two minutes before. Hmmm….wonder why that is.
Anyway we were grateful to find a room at a hotel with a parking lot big enough to accommodate our rig. The Best Western is just around the corner from US 54 which is a major truck route and it’s about a ¼ mile from an active railroad track. The road noise was fairly constant but not obnoxious and I heard a train do its whistle thing once as I was getting into bed. Beyond that if the trains were running I never heard them.
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Kim had set an informal mileage goal yesterday…having goals is a good thing but along with that we had to keep lodging in mind because the camper was not an option on a single digit night. Hotels on our route hadn’t been real plentiful but a quick search on my phone indicated that there were numerous options in Dalhart in various price ranges.
With one stop we found that not all hotels had adequate parking for our rig and not all prices were as listed online. Ugh! Calling seemed a better idea so the Best Western was first up. Yes, they had rooms but for slightly more than listed, a king was cheaper than a double queen and they had room to park the truck. Thank you for the information…maybe I’ll give you a call back. I then went online to make a reservation for a king room at the Best Western. It cost $20 less online through a third party vendor (SnapTravel) than the price quoted directly from the hotel two minutes before. Hmmm….wonder why that is.
Anyway we were grateful to find a room at a hotel with a parking lot big enough to accommodate our rig. The Best Western is just around the corner from US 54 which is a major truck route and it’s about a ¼ mile from an active railroad track. The road noise was fairly constant but not obnoxious and I heard a train do its whistle thing once as I was getting into bed. Beyond that if the trains were running I never heard them.
**Point of interest: The Best Western breakfast room
boasts waffle maker shaped Texas with a BW stamped in the
middle. Two things: 1. I wonder how much
it costs to get a customized waffle maker and 2. What would I want my
personalized waffles to look like.
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Fuel prices are certainly up…we’re currently in New Mexico and the lowest we’ve seen for diesel since leaving home is $3.69 and the highest has been $4.15. Haven’t really been tracking unleaded because when we’re on a trip in the truck we care about the green price, not the red price.
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Taking US 54 south from Santa Rosa to Alamogordo where we’ll pick up 70 into Las Cruces. Keeping a look out for wildlife…haven’t seen anything yet.
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We stopped in Alamogordo, NM, at Pistachio Land for a photo op with the World’s Largest Pistachio and to buy a bag or two of Pistachios. This is a must stop if we’re in Alamogordo when Pistachio Land is open. And I don’t know how many photos a person needs of the big nut but it begs me to take a picture every time I'm there.
Before we left Alamogordo we had a very late lunch/very early dinner at Margo’s Mexican Food. Had a Navajo Taco which is all about the fry bread for me. Yum!
A little farther down the road we stopped at
the World’s Largest Chili Pepper in Las Cruces for another photo op. The position of the sun wasn’t very kind for taking this picture but we did what we could and then moved on. Although I’m willing to pass on an attraction
if it appears that parking the truck/camper will be problematic, Kim does his
best to accommodate my oddball ideas.
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Made a decision to stop for the night in Deming, NM, which gives us about a 4 hour run to Picacho tomorrow. Based on our experience last night with the hotel in Dalhart I went directly online to find and book a hotel. It was not an easy process because of a poor signal but finally managed to get a room at a Best Western. They offer a hot breakfast and now I'm wondering if this one has a personalized waffle maker also.
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Drove approximately 470 miles today and it didn’t even feel like we were pushing it. Took time to shop, eat, play and still made good time. Of course the fact that we crossed over into Mountain Time early in the day might have played a part in that. Pass a sign and suddenly you get a chance to repeat an hour. We’ll be two hours behind Michigan now until the time change in March, then we’ll be three hours behind because Arizona doesn’t observe Daylight Saving Time. It’s quirky that way.
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Just for fun and because I had time, I decided to google “Custom made waffle makers”. Top search result was the site theodmgroup.com. I checked it out and eventually found this about their pricing:
The waffle maker has a minimum order quantity (MOQ) of 1. We are opening a new mould for custom logos, and mould costs are up to a few thousand USD depending on the logo’s complexity, so this product is more suitable for commercial use. It comes with voltage and plugs for Europe/ France.
*Mould cost and sampling are from 1100USD.
*Unit cost per 1 piece is 600USD.
And because of the way ‘mould’ is spelled I wondered if The ODM Group is a British company. This is what I learned about that: The ODM Group is a Promotional Products Marketing Agency founded in 2003. Beginning operations in Hong Kong, here is how we have expanded over the years – firmly rooted in Asia close to our factories. So, not British.
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Then I skipped down to another search result from felionstudios.com. This site offered a very informative bullet list about commissioning work from them. This is what it said about pricing:
Budget: Serious inquiries are more fun for everyone. Custom cookware is no flash in the pan, so if $5,000*+ scares you, maybe meditate on your request before reaching out. (*not every project we do requires this amount, but typical pattern + production costs exceed this quite often.)
And because I thought it only fair to check out this company also I found that FeLion Studios is based in Wisconsin. This is their business description: FeLion Studios is a design/build sculpture studio specializing in cast iron art, custom castings and commercial commissions. We're driven by a craft-centric methodology that strives to exceed expectations in every aspect of our process, from concept to design and into the final finish.
Bottom line is that I don’t care enough about waffles to spend that kind of money on a custom waffle maker but I do appreciate the time, effort and creativity it takes to produce a working piece of art.
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Fuel prices are certainly up…we’re currently in New Mexico and the lowest we’ve seen for diesel since leaving home is $3.69 and the highest has been $4.15. Haven’t really been tracking unleaded because when we’re on a trip in the truck we care about the green price, not the red price.
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Taking US 54 south from Santa Rosa to Alamogordo where we’ll pick up 70 into Las Cruces. Keeping a look out for wildlife…haven’t seen anything yet.
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We stopped in Alamogordo, NM, at Pistachio Land for a photo op with the World’s Largest Pistachio and to buy a bag or two of Pistachios. This is a must stop if we’re in Alamogordo when Pistachio Land is open. And I don’t know how many photos a person needs of the big nut but it begs me to take a picture every time I'm there.
Before we left Alamogordo we had a very late lunch/very early dinner at Margo’s Mexican Food. Had a Navajo Taco which is all about the fry bread for me. Yum!
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Made a decision to stop for the night in Deming, NM, which gives us about a 4 hour run to Picacho tomorrow. Based on our experience last night with the hotel in Dalhart I went directly online to find and book a hotel. It was not an easy process because of a poor signal but finally managed to get a room at a Best Western. They offer a hot breakfast and now I'm wondering if this one has a personalized waffle maker also.
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Drove approximately 470 miles today and it didn’t even feel like we were pushing it. Took time to shop, eat, play and still made good time. Of course the fact that we crossed over into Mountain Time early in the day might have played a part in that. Pass a sign and suddenly you get a chance to repeat an hour. We’ll be two hours behind Michigan now until the time change in March, then we’ll be three hours behind because Arizona doesn’t observe Daylight Saving Time. It’s quirky that way.
----------
Just for fun and because I had time, I decided to google “Custom made waffle makers”. Top search result was the site theodmgroup.com. I checked it out and eventually found this about their pricing:
The waffle maker has a minimum order quantity (MOQ) of 1. We are opening a new mould for custom logos, and mould costs are up to a few thousand USD depending on the logo’s complexity, so this product is more suitable for commercial use. It comes with voltage and plugs for Europe/ France.
*Mould cost and sampling are from 1100USD.
*Unit cost per 1 piece is 600USD.
And because of the way ‘mould’ is spelled I wondered if The ODM Group is a British company. This is what I learned about that: The ODM Group is a Promotional Products Marketing Agency founded in 2003. Beginning operations in Hong Kong, here is how we have expanded over the years – firmly rooted in Asia close to our factories. So, not British.
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Then I skipped down to another search result from felionstudios.com. This site offered a very informative bullet list about commissioning work from them. This is what it said about pricing:
Budget: Serious inquiries are more fun for everyone. Custom cookware is no flash in the pan, so if $5,000*+ scares you, maybe meditate on your request before reaching out. (*not every project we do requires this amount, but typical pattern + production costs exceed this quite often.)
And because I thought it only fair to check out this company also I found that FeLion Studios is based in Wisconsin. This is their business description: FeLion Studios is a design/build sculpture studio specializing in cast iron art, custom castings and commercial commissions. We're driven by a craft-centric methodology that strives to exceed expectations in every aspect of our process, from concept to design and into the final finish.
Bottom line is that I don’t care enough about waffles to spend that kind of money on a custom waffle maker but I do appreciate the time, effort and creativity it takes to produce a working piece of art.
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