About 7:00 A.M. we awoke and the bus went into the Shop for repair. We cooked our first breakfast inside the bus at the shop. Everyone was concerned about the condition of the bus, but attitudes were good and spirits ran high.

After an hour or so of checking the bus over, the mechanic could not locate any obvious problem. They finally came to the conclusion that the cylinder walls of the motor were glazed, not allowing the piston rings to seat. It seems the engine had just been rebuilt before the last trip. The bus had traveled to Colorado on a ski trip and had run into a blizzard. This led the mechanic to believe that the engine had been running too cold, which would cause the cylinders to glaze, allowing oil to slip past the rings and be burned in the engine. The mechanic advised Charles to close the vents into the engine compartment which would cause the engine to run hotter, thus allowing the rings to seat.

We finally picked up the rest of our American crew and headed on down the road. We traveled all day through Kansas and into Oklahoma. The bus seemed to be doing better as we didn't have to add nearly as much oil as we did the first part of the trip. We had probably already used 12 gallons of oil. The bus traveled on through the night with our full crew on board.