The first thing I looked at after turning in my timeslip, and showing them my pics of the previous drive's checkpoints, is the total miles on the route sheet! 229.8, and our motel was a good 18 miles before the track, so we were looking at a 210 mile jaunt to finish out the day, not bad!
The first thing that even looked like a gas station was about 10 miles into the drive on I-45. We pulled into the Chevron, and filed in around Steve Fagan (ProCharged509 BangShift), who was on the inside island, hood up on his S-10 Blazer, and in the process of removing his Pro-Charger! Steve had a pair of Low 9 second passes under his belt (pun intended), but now the blower bearings were howling, forcing him to continue sans boost.
A couple miles further down the road we drove by Eric Yost's "Dirty Bird" on a grassy knoll, with a red 4th gen firebird hanging out with him...they may have been working on the car, or just having a beer, but we headed on down the highway.