Dave,
This drive is taking longer than I expected. I seem to have perfectly timed the afternoon/evening traffic in nearly every major city I pass through. So far it's happened in LA, Phoenix, a little bit in El Paso and now in Houston. I'll be in Pensacola on Saturday afternoon sometime between, say, 1 and 3. I booked a room at the PCola Holiday Inn, but I had to change my reservation and move it back a day. The hotel # is 858-474-0100. I made the reservation change online, so who knows when it will register on their system but they should take a message anyway.
Later