Well... she's been a busy few days. We had our little run around Texas, then they gave us take a little run leaving us sitting yesterday morning unsure about whether we'll be back in Wisconsin for our home time. Its not really their fault, freight has been slowing down a bit lately (with fuel costs rising). Thankfully though they found us a load and we are on our way back there. In fact we're sitting just on the state line between Wisconsin and Illinois waiting to deliver to 3 places tomorrow, then we'll see how things go.
I cannot believe how quickly this year has flown by, we've seen so much while on the road this year this amazing and I'm extremely thankful for being able to experience it.
I've been trying to think of good new years resolutions but so far i've come up with only a couple:
~ Take more photos/Improve my photography skills
~ Write more, both in my blog and other forms of writing
~ Read more, and try new genres
so those are just a few, they rest are pretty much general things that people resolve to do in the new year but rarely stick too - oh well :) i'll give them a shot all the same.
Anyone else want to share new years resolutions? go on.. you know you want to :)
Take care guys
Love to you all xoxoxox
Monday, December 31, 2007
The last of the photo backlog...
Well this is the last of the photo backlog I had sitting here waiting to be uploaded (YAY) I wanted to space them out a bit so you guys didn't have lots to look through in one go.
I'll post again in a minute with a proper update (unless the website decides to go walkabouts on me again) :)
Beautiful Sunset, this was the last shot I got before running back to the warmth of the truck. It was sooo cold outside that even my gloves weren't helping keep my fingers warm! I only stayed out there taking shots for a few minutes, unfortunately most of them were too blurring from shivering hehe but this one and the one below it turned out pretty good I think.
Beautiful sunset on top of a plateau in New Mexico. We came back outside from having dinner and this was the scene behind the truck. The blur is due to the fact I was freezing and shaking from the cold wind and temperature that night.
This is a mountain near Flagstaff, Arizona (which is right by the grand canyon!!!) Beautiful morning drive through the mountains, this was also just before we saw the elk grazing on the side of the interstate.
Cliff area in Arizona pretty close to New Mexico
Cliffs in Arizona just before the state line with New Mexico
Welcome to New Mexico!
I'll post again in a minute with a proper update (unless the website decides to go walkabouts on me again) :)
Beautiful Sunset, this was the last shot I got before running back to the warmth of the truck. It was sooo cold outside that even my gloves weren't helping keep my fingers warm! I only stayed out there taking shots for a few minutes, unfortunately most of them were too blurring from shivering hehe but this one and the one below it turned out pretty good I think.
Beautiful sunset on top of a plateau in New Mexico. We came back outside from having dinner and this was the scene behind the truck. The blur is due to the fact I was freezing and shaking from the cold wind and temperature that night.
This is a mountain near Flagstaff, Arizona (which is right by the grand canyon!!!) Beautiful morning drive through the mountains, this was also just before we saw the elk grazing on the side of the interstate.
Cliff area in Arizona pretty close to New Mexico
Cliffs in Arizona just before the state line with New Mexico
Welcome to New Mexico!
Friday, December 28, 2007
New Mexico and Arizona
There were a lot of really awesome things that I got to see while going through New Mexico and Arizona for the first time. Some of them weren't at easily photographed and included:
* A tumbleweed, rolling down the interstate at us... it was really funny
* A rocky hill with "Fraggle Rock" written on it
* Lots and lots of cactus, I only saw a couple of the three pronged ones that you see in cartoons on tv and they were down in a valley.
Luckily though, I did capture some other really groovy things with my camera....
Travelling through New Mexico, there were mountains and hills all around.
This rock was across the road from the rest area we stopped at - it reminded me of a whale not sure why hehe.
Horse-Head Rock, It drew my attention because it looks kinda like a horse's head at the top. This was a formation behind the rest area we stopped at in Arizona
Lots of rocky area's in Arizona, this was the view behind the rest area we stopped at.
* A tumbleweed, rolling down the interstate at us... it was really funny
* A rocky hill with "Fraggle Rock" written on it
* Lots and lots of cactus, I only saw a couple of the three pronged ones that you see in cartoons on tv and they were down in a valley.
Luckily though, I did capture some other really groovy things with my camera....
Travelling through New Mexico, there were mountains and hills all around.
This rock was across the road from the rest area we stopped at - it reminded me of a whale not sure why hehe.
Horse-Head Rock, It drew my attention because it looks kinda like a horse's head at the top. This was a formation behind the rest area we stopped at in Arizona
Lots of rocky area's in Arizona, this was the view behind the rest area we stopped at.
Nighttime Photography - Lights
The follow are some photos I took while in Texas, I was messing around with settings and I'm pretty excited about the final results....
I was trying to capture the beauty of the sunset in texas, without blinding oncoming cars with a flash. I was looking through settings and I came across one that has a long aperture exposure (meaning the lens stays open longer, you get more light in - good for low light situations like sunrises and sunsets). I really like how this turned out.
This was taken earlier in the evening while I was messing around with settings on my camera. I believe the best way to learn what your camera is capable of, is to play with it and try new things, you never know what you'll produce! This was taken with a car coming towards us, but because it had the long exposure setting - the flash didn't go off, so the driver wasn't blinded. I also love how it captured the sunset colours.
Going through a small town a prominent building was covered in Christmas lights, The lights were amazing, so I grabbed my camera for a shot, unfortunately I forgot I had the long exposure setting on and this is what I got - but I really like it despite the mistake. Has a very surreal and pretty feel to it.
I love this shot, I focused on a lighted sign, I think it was in the shape of a cowboy boot, and this is what I got.
I was trying to capture the beauty of the sunset in texas, without blinding oncoming cars with a flash. I was looking through settings and I came across one that has a long aperture exposure (meaning the lens stays open longer, you get more light in - good for low light situations like sunrises and sunsets). I really like how this turned out.
This was taken earlier in the evening while I was messing around with settings on my camera. I believe the best way to learn what your camera is capable of, is to play with it and try new things, you never know what you'll produce! This was taken with a car coming towards us, but because it had the long exposure setting - the flash didn't go off, so the driver wasn't blinded. I also love how it captured the sunset colours.
Going through a small town a prominent building was covered in Christmas lights, The lights were amazing, so I grabbed my camera for a shot, unfortunately I forgot I had the long exposure setting on and this is what I got - but I really like it despite the mistake. Has a very surreal and pretty feel to it.
I love this shot, I focused on a lighted sign, I think it was in the shape of a cowboy boot, and this is what I got.
Texas photos...
Wednesday 26th December:
Everything went fine with the delivery this morning, yay. Though the truck's drivers side door has decided to stop working... no idea what happened or how but it wont open/unlock or anything, so we're heading towards a yard to get it fixed.
Got our reload while we were being unloaded this morning, we've got 2 days to drive 300 miles! hehe this also includes stopping at the yard to get the door fixed, but we're hoping that wont take too long. Just as a point of reference, we can travel about 700 miles in a day, so you can imagine that this trip is only a fraction of what we can do in a day.
Thursday 27th December:
I finally got some time online with a decent connection so I can post some photos i've been promising. I'll do them over a series of posts so if I only get a couple up here, know that i'll be adding more shortly.
Had a good night last night, curled up on a big comfy couch in the drivers lounge and read for a couple of hours while pat tried to sort out some computer issues. He helps run a gaming forum and their site has been broken for about a week, he's been working on it as hard as he can but it requires a decent speed connection to upload thousands of files and trying to deal with the tech support for his hosting company. I feel bad for him because the company broke it and they're telling him he has to fix it but it requires going through a lot of code, which can be tedious at best. Hopefully he figured it out this time and he'll have another attempt at it again tonight.
anyway, onto the photos.....
I think this is one of my favourites of the shots I took. My favourite part of the photo would have to be the clouds and the detail of them. Took this one on the way to San Angelo, Texas
Just to give you an idea of how deserted some parts of Texas are. This was taken on the way to San Angelo, Texas
I was playing around with settings on the camera, and found one that zoomed in on the mirrors and eliminated the shake so it looks like i took this from outside the truck looking back at where we've come from.
Everything went fine with the delivery this morning, yay. Though the truck's drivers side door has decided to stop working... no idea what happened or how but it wont open/unlock or anything, so we're heading towards a yard to get it fixed.
Got our reload while we were being unloaded this morning, we've got 2 days to drive 300 miles! hehe this also includes stopping at the yard to get the door fixed, but we're hoping that wont take too long. Just as a point of reference, we can travel about 700 miles in a day, so you can imagine that this trip is only a fraction of what we can do in a day.
Thursday 27th December:
I finally got some time online with a decent connection so I can post some photos i've been promising. I'll do them over a series of posts so if I only get a couple up here, know that i'll be adding more shortly.
Had a good night last night, curled up on a big comfy couch in the drivers lounge and read for a couple of hours while pat tried to sort out some computer issues. He helps run a gaming forum and their site has been broken for about a week, he's been working on it as hard as he can but it requires a decent speed connection to upload thousands of files and trying to deal with the tech support for his hosting company. I feel bad for him because the company broke it and they're telling him he has to fix it but it requires going through a lot of code, which can be tedious at best. Hopefully he figured it out this time and he'll have another attempt at it again tonight.
anyway, onto the photos.....
I think this is one of my favourites of the shots I took. My favourite part of the photo would have to be the clouds and the detail of them. Took this one on the way to San Angelo, Texas
Just to give you an idea of how deserted some parts of Texas are. This was taken on the way to San Angelo, Texas
I was playing around with settings on the camera, and found one that zoomed in on the mirrors and eliminated the shake so it looks like i took this from outside the truck looking back at where we've come from.
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Merry Christmas
Sitting here in Oklahoma, turns out the place we're delivering to is only about 1 minute up the road, yet it can't be delivered early. Oh well lol means we get to sit for a few days. At least we get to catch up on sleep YAY
This year has been amazing for me, and I'm very thankful for the opportunities I've been given. While I'm having a blast over here, we're planning on moving to Australia, and we're hoping that 2008 will be a good year for it to happen for us. But don't fret, we'll be popping over to kiwiland to catch up with family and friends.
To all my wonderful family and friends ... I want to say thank you, for being truly amazing, may all your holiday wishes come true and 2008 is filled with love, laughter and lots of happy times.
Okay enough of the sappy stuff..... Have fun and enjoy the holidays!
Anyone got some interesting or odd new year's resolutions? feel free to share peoples!!!!!! i'll share mine a little closer to new years :)
Tonight we'll be settling in with a movie and relaxing. Only another day and a bit until we can deliver and continue on our merry way.
Our next scheduled home time will be on the 1st January, so anyone wanting to call and chat, just let us know and we'll make sure we're home.
until next time...
lots of love to you all xoxox
This year has been amazing for me, and I'm very thankful for the opportunities I've been given. While I'm having a blast over here, we're planning on moving to Australia, and we're hoping that 2008 will be a good year for it to happen for us. But don't fret, we'll be popping over to kiwiland to catch up with family and friends.
To all my wonderful family and friends ... I want to say thank you, for being truly amazing, may all your holiday wishes come true and 2008 is filled with love, laughter and lots of happy times.
Okay enough of the sappy stuff..... Have fun and enjoy the holidays!
Anyone got some interesting or odd new year's resolutions? feel free to share peoples!!!!!! i'll share mine a little closer to new years :)
Tonight we'll be settling in with a movie and relaxing. Only another day and a bit until we can deliver and continue on our merry way.
Our next scheduled home time will be on the 1st January, so anyone wanting to call and chat, just let us know and we'll make sure we're home.
until next time...
lots of love to you all xoxox
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Friday and Saturday
Friday 21st December:
I hope you guys enjoyed the photo uploads today. I actually have more photos to upload its just a matter of resizing them so you can see them in one go rather than having to scroll. Thanks to my camera they come out at about 2000 x 3000 pixels! your average screen size is about 800 x 600 so you can imagine how much detail is in each photo. Now that my card is clear for the first time in a few days I can adjust the photo size on the camera, which means I can take a lot more photos on the memory card. I average about 70 photos at the current size, if i decrease it a bit I should get space for about 80-100 photos.
Over the past couple of days we delivered in Texas, picked up in Texas and headed to Arizona! Which is where we're sitting now. We swapped a load out with a driver who lives here in Az (the state abbreviation) so he could go home and spend Christmas with his family. This means we have 5 days to get to Oklahoma (which is about 2 day's drive). So we're staying here tonight, and making our way towards Oklahoma tomorrow. We got to go to a few new states this week - Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona so thats really nice.
Saturday 22nd December:
Whoops got sidetracked and didn't get back around to posting the above post yesterday.
Today has been absolutely amazing. Seeing the sun rising over mountains in Arizona is utterly amazing. I tried to get photos but there wasn't enough light and I didn't have a tripod to steady the camera for a long exposure shot. We stopped for a nap about 5am and continued on our way about 7am. The sky was this vibrant shade of green, blending into a dark deep blue with stars sprinkled throughout. The sky got lighter and lighter until the skyline seem to glow a white/yellow light. Words can't do the scene justice, you'll just have to take my word for it - it was the coolest thing I've seen. We didn't get to see the grand canyon though, but i think we were within an hour's drive of it.
I also go to see Elk! I've seen them once before in a zoo in Marshfield, but these were wild elk and were a lot bigger. I cannot imagine the damage they'd do to a car if you accidentally hit one. I tried to get a photo but it came out too blurry (i think i had the wrong setting on). They were happily grazing by the side of the road, seemingly oblivious to the snow and traffic around them.
Tonight we'll be staying in New Mexico, though unfortunately nowhere near roswell hehe. We'll only have about 8 hours to drive to our destination tomorrow so we'll be parked up early. The place we're staying is up on a plateau, and I gotta tell ya its pretty darn cold up here. There's snow on the ground and the wind is pretty harsh.
Unfortunately the internet speed here is really really slow, so i'm going to post this then maybe watch a dvd before dinner.
Take care guys, and in case I don't post again before... Have a good Christmas and a wonderful new years.
Love ya
Corina xoxox
I hope you guys enjoyed the photo uploads today. I actually have more photos to upload its just a matter of resizing them so you can see them in one go rather than having to scroll. Thanks to my camera they come out at about 2000 x 3000 pixels! your average screen size is about 800 x 600 so you can imagine how much detail is in each photo. Now that my card is clear for the first time in a few days I can adjust the photo size on the camera, which means I can take a lot more photos on the memory card. I average about 70 photos at the current size, if i decrease it a bit I should get space for about 80-100 photos.
Over the past couple of days we delivered in Texas, picked up in Texas and headed to Arizona! Which is where we're sitting now. We swapped a load out with a driver who lives here in Az (the state abbreviation) so he could go home and spend Christmas with his family. This means we have 5 days to get to Oklahoma (which is about 2 day's drive). So we're staying here tonight, and making our way towards Oklahoma tomorrow. We got to go to a few new states this week - Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona so thats really nice.
Saturday 22nd December:
Whoops got sidetracked and didn't get back around to posting the above post yesterday.
Today has been absolutely amazing. Seeing the sun rising over mountains in Arizona is utterly amazing. I tried to get photos but there wasn't enough light and I didn't have a tripod to steady the camera for a long exposure shot. We stopped for a nap about 5am and continued on our way about 7am. The sky was this vibrant shade of green, blending into a dark deep blue with stars sprinkled throughout. The sky got lighter and lighter until the skyline seem to glow a white/yellow light. Words can't do the scene justice, you'll just have to take my word for it - it was the coolest thing I've seen. We didn't get to see the grand canyon though, but i think we were within an hour's drive of it.
I also go to see Elk! I've seen them once before in a zoo in Marshfield, but these were wild elk and were a lot bigger. I cannot imagine the damage they'd do to a car if you accidentally hit one. I tried to get a photo but it came out too blurry (i think i had the wrong setting on). They were happily grazing by the side of the road, seemingly oblivious to the snow and traffic around them.
Tonight we'll be staying in New Mexico, though unfortunately nowhere near roswell hehe. We'll only have about 8 hours to drive to our destination tomorrow so we'll be parked up early. The place we're staying is up on a plateau, and I gotta tell ya its pretty darn cold up here. There's snow on the ground and the wind is pretty harsh.
Unfortunately the internet speed here is really really slow, so i'm going to post this then maybe watch a dvd before dinner.
Take care guys, and in case I don't post again before... Have a good Christmas and a wonderful new years.
Love ya
Corina xoxox
Saturday, December 22, 2007
Feline Photos
Some photos of our two cats... Tommy and Dishrag
He's such a cutie, but can get into some real trouble when he wants to. He loves watching animal shows on Sunday morning on tv, and playing "Shadow" with people. We got him through Pat's brother's work, where he turned up one day. After putting a notice up that they'd found a kitten, and no one claimed it, they decided to keep him as a store cat. Unfortunately Tommy's trouble streak got the best of him and after falling through the ceiling panels they decided that it would be best if he went to someone's home. So we adopted him (or more like he adopted us), and its been crazy ever since.
A close up thanks to my camera's lens. I can take macro (extreme close up shots) without having to be in his face.
Dishrag was absolutely fascinated with Pat's new shoes, he spent a good 2 hours just rolling on them and around them trying to make them smell like him!
Dishrag, perfect timing in this photo thats for sure. I really love this photos of dishrag, it really matches his personality. Remember we are talking about the smart cat who dragged a big bag of cat food down the hallway and woke me up because there was only half a bowl of cat food left and he was worried it would be gone before more would appear! He also spent months working on pushing a screen out of a window so he could explore the yard one night - then broke his way through the screen door and was banging his head on the inside door to get someone to open up at 3am. Boy was he glad when Pat opened the door.
He's such a cutie, but can get into some real trouble when he wants to. He loves watching animal shows on Sunday morning on tv, and playing "Shadow" with people. We got him through Pat's brother's work, where he turned up one day. After putting a notice up that they'd found a kitten, and no one claimed it, they decided to keep him as a store cat. Unfortunately Tommy's trouble streak got the best of him and after falling through the ceiling panels they decided that it would be best if he went to someone's home. So we adopted him (or more like he adopted us), and its been crazy ever since.
A close up thanks to my camera's lens. I can take macro (extreme close up shots) without having to be in his face.
Dishrag was absolutely fascinated with Pat's new shoes, he spent a good 2 hours just rolling on them and around them trying to make them smell like him!
Dishrag, perfect timing in this photo thats for sure. I really love this photos of dishrag, it really matches his personality. Remember we are talking about the smart cat who dragged a big bag of cat food down the hallway and woke me up because there was only half a bowl of cat food left and he was worried it would be gone before more would appear! He also spent months working on pushing a screen out of a window so he could explore the yard one night - then broke his way through the screen door and was banging his head on the inside door to get someone to open up at 3am. Boy was he glad when Pat opened the door.
the photos..finally!
Happy Birthday to us! hehe one of the first photos I took with my new camera. Made for us by Marj (thank you!!!!!!!) it was delicious! They decided to put "49" on the cake, as they added both Pat and my ages together rather than trying for 24 and 25 candles hehe. Personally i think this was a lot less of a fire hazard and meant we got to eat yummy cake.
Bottom Photo: our yummy banana pudding.
Snowy Bridge in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. December 2007
Stevens Point, Wisconsin. December 2007
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Sunny Texas
Tuesday 18th December:
WOW time flies, I cannot believe its almost christmas/Yule! Before you know it 2007 will be making a fast retreat out the back door and 2008 will be breaking the front door in. I hope everyon has had a great year this year, and that next year is even better and brighter.
We've had a fun couple of days since I last wrote...
Firstly, I did try to upload those photos but blogspot decided to spazz, so I couldn't do anything. I intended on doing it later that night but after dinner whatever cold/bug I have hit me and I was pretty tired. So I curled up in bed and read - Pat was even so kind as to run inside and get me a chocolate bar (isn't he sweet?). I'll upload them soon, the connection where we're at tonight is horrible.
We delivered Monday morning, and ended up having to drive to the yard in Texas and wait. Got a small run over about 30 miles to deliver a load, then our reload was coming out of Oklahoma, and going to two stops in Texas which we'll be delivering tomorrow.
Had my first ever experience at "IHOP" (International House of Pancakes) and wouldn't ya know it? I didn't have pancakes hehe. I was very tempted to try the chocolate-chip pancakes, but the cheeseburger on a cheese roll was a little too tempting (I was really hungry). Had a good amount of lettuce on the side too, and they put a good seasoning on the fries - so all in all, very good. I'd rank it up there with Cracker Barrel, Though I definately want to go back to IHOP and try the pancakes.
I'm sitting here re-watching Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix before dinner, in about an hour. Not sure what we'll have but we'll find something good i'm sure, the place we're at has a Subway and a McDonalds (i'm leaning towards subway).
In the past few days I've done quite a bit of reading as we waited for loading/unloading/while driving. I've finished 5 books since we left the house, unfortunately I've only got 4 more left. There's always e-books downloaded onto the game-boy though.. but thats mostly obscure texts and classic fiction that were written ages ago - like Jane Eyre, Emma, Dracula. I even managed to find a website that has the diaries of Lady Mary Anne Barker who wrote "Station Life in New Zealand"! I'm about 1/3 of the way through it. If anyone else is interested in reading it or finding interesting books online, and free to download then check out Here
Well thats all for now, time to head in for dinner :)
WOW time flies, I cannot believe its almost christmas/Yule! Before you know it 2007 will be making a fast retreat out the back door and 2008 will be breaking the front door in. I hope everyon has had a great year this year, and that next year is even better and brighter.
We've had a fun couple of days since I last wrote...
Firstly, I did try to upload those photos but blogspot decided to spazz, so I couldn't do anything. I intended on doing it later that night but after dinner whatever cold/bug I have hit me and I was pretty tired. So I curled up in bed and read - Pat was even so kind as to run inside and get me a chocolate bar (isn't he sweet?). I'll upload them soon, the connection where we're at tonight is horrible.
We delivered Monday morning, and ended up having to drive to the yard in Texas and wait. Got a small run over about 30 miles to deliver a load, then our reload was coming out of Oklahoma, and going to two stops in Texas which we'll be delivering tomorrow.
Had my first ever experience at "IHOP" (International House of Pancakes) and wouldn't ya know it? I didn't have pancakes hehe. I was very tempted to try the chocolate-chip pancakes, but the cheeseburger on a cheese roll was a little too tempting (I was really hungry). Had a good amount of lettuce on the side too, and they put a good seasoning on the fries - so all in all, very good. I'd rank it up there with Cracker Barrel, Though I definately want to go back to IHOP and try the pancakes.
I'm sitting here re-watching Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix before dinner, in about an hour. Not sure what we'll have but we'll find something good i'm sure, the place we're at has a Subway and a McDonalds (i'm leaning towards subway).
In the past few days I've done quite a bit of reading as we waited for loading/unloading/while driving. I've finished 5 books since we left the house, unfortunately I've only got 4 more left. There's always e-books downloaded onto the game-boy though.. but thats mostly obscure texts and classic fiction that were written ages ago - like Jane Eyre, Emma, Dracula. I even managed to find a website that has the diaries of Lady Mary Anne Barker who wrote "Station Life in New Zealand"! I'm about 1/3 of the way through it. If anyone else is interested in reading it or finding interesting books online, and free to download then check out Here
Well thats all for now, time to head in for dinner :)
Monday, December 17, 2007
A rare moment of relaxation...
Sunday 16th December:
The load we're currently on has brought us to Texas, its meant to be delivered tomorrow morning.
Yesterday was pretty boring, got up early - picked up our load. Headed west across, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and most of Mississippi :) Which just left the rest of Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas today. Had some minor truck issues yesterday, but it wasn't anything too serious just the heating/ac unit had a little fit, but it thawed and everything is fine now. We'll talk to the dispatcher on Monday about it, but since it fixed itself we shouldn't need to head to a yard to get it looked at.
Later that day....
Arrived at our destination, yay. Caught up with some emailing and photo stuff i've been meaning to. I've uploaded some shots i took in Wisconsin to the computer (snowy type ones), so i'll upload them when I upload this. Its really nice to have days like this, we start early and get to our destination with time to relax and not stress about traffic, time, miles, or idiots. I know it'll be back to normal, rushing around and being busy tomorrow (especially if the company decides we should have the heating/ac unit looked at before we head up north towards the snow and cold weather) but thats okay. I'm enjoying this afternoon/this evening while it lasts.
The load we're currently on has brought us to Texas, its meant to be delivered tomorrow morning.
Yesterday was pretty boring, got up early - picked up our load. Headed west across, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and most of Mississippi :) Which just left the rest of Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas today. Had some minor truck issues yesterday, but it wasn't anything too serious just the heating/ac unit had a little fit, but it thawed and everything is fine now. We'll talk to the dispatcher on Monday about it, but since it fixed itself we shouldn't need to head to a yard to get it looked at.
Later that day....
Arrived at our destination, yay. Caught up with some emailing and photo stuff i've been meaning to. I've uploaded some shots i took in Wisconsin to the computer (snowy type ones), so i'll upload them when I upload this. Its really nice to have days like this, we start early and get to our destination with time to relax and not stress about traffic, time, miles, or idiots. I know it'll be back to normal, rushing around and being busy tomorrow (especially if the company decides we should have the heating/ac unit looked at before we head up north towards the snow and cold weather) but thats okay. I'm enjoying this afternoon/this evening while it lasts.
Friday, December 14, 2007
Back in the truck
Tuesday 11th December:
We're back in the truck and have our first assigned load for this trip out. We've got 3 pick ups and 4 deliveries going to North Carolina/ South Carolina area.
Thank you for all the wonderful birthday wishes and pressies! We had a wonderful day and a very relaxing weekend yay. We went to the movies on saturday to see "The Golden Compass" which was awesome in case you're wondering. A couple of friends came over and we had bbq ribs, birthday cake and lots of good food. Ended up watching movies, playing a little world of warcraft with our friends and lots of good conversation.
Our next home time will be scheduled for around new years eve, but we'll let you guys know a definate date if anyone wants to call and catch up with us.
At the moment, we're sitting at the terminal waiting for our trailer to come out of the truckwash, too bad they didn't our truck in there with it - its looking a little grubby, oh well maybe they'll do it next time we're here.
One of the house mates taught me how to make this really yummy chanukah food called "Latke's" they're like potato fritters/hash browns. It was a lot of fun, she even let me make the batch of them one night. I really enjoyed it because as we were making them she was sharing stories from chanukah celebrations with her family when she was younger and telling me about various traditions that her family did.
Thursday 13th December:
I was meaning to post Tuesday's entry right away but once we finally got our trailer and left the yard it was chaotic at best, the first place we had to pick up from had machine breakdowns so there was a back up of about 6 trucks before us so we had a long wait. Then we made it to the second place (there was no hope for the 3rd because they'd already closed up), only to find out they had a back up as well - we waited 2 hours there for 1 roll of paper to be loaded on. Because of bad weather we ended up parking in wisconsin that night, and got told that we could pick the last part up wednesday morning before we left...so we did and eventually got on our way.
Last night we drove until late, had to run inside and have a quick dinner before bed, we were up again early this morning, but have had to stop due to bad weather/slick roads and hubby being tired so he's having a quick nap before we continue on our way.
To top it all off? i'm coming down with a cold/flu or something. My entire body is aching, i'm sniffly, have a really sore throat (i think i've got an inflamed tonsil or gland cos one side of my throat is a bit more sore than the other). It sucks but i'll get through it. I'm taking vitamins, using anti-bacterial gel on my hands whenever i go anywhere, drinking plenty of water and trying to sleep as much as i can.
In other odd news, we saw a total of 3 semi's in ditches due to bad weather, and people not being careful. tsk tsk you'd think people would learn by now huh?
Took some photos in wisconsin on tuesday/wednesday morning so i'll upload those if i get a chance tonight. Its looking like a busy night because we're a few hours behind and we've got to try to deliver at least one part of the four tonight.
Right now though, we're back on the road. The roads are a lot better.
....about 4 hours later. Well, we just got caught in traffic for about an hour due to a car accident in the mountains in Tennessee. I don't think anyone was killed thank goodness, but people were taken away in ambulances. We happened upon it about 5 minutes after it happened, the cops hadn't even arrived on scene when we caught up with the back up. I hope everyone is okay. Turns out that a pick up truck pulling a camper van was going too fast, and tipped. its a really good thing there was a guardrail there.
We called the dispatcher and told her what was going on and that we've had a lot of issues this trip, we've got to deliver to 4 places, we might get to one of them tonight, might. I'm not stressing about it though, we'll get there when we get there.
I'm gonna go post this while I have a connection, take care guys...will update again soon. luv to you all xoxoxox
We're back in the truck and have our first assigned load for this trip out. We've got 3 pick ups and 4 deliveries going to North Carolina/ South Carolina area.
Thank you for all the wonderful birthday wishes and pressies! We had a wonderful day and a very relaxing weekend yay. We went to the movies on saturday to see "The Golden Compass" which was awesome in case you're wondering. A couple of friends came over and we had bbq ribs, birthday cake and lots of good food. Ended up watching movies, playing a little world of warcraft with our friends and lots of good conversation.
Our next home time will be scheduled for around new years eve, but we'll let you guys know a definate date if anyone wants to call and catch up with us.
At the moment, we're sitting at the terminal waiting for our trailer to come out of the truckwash, too bad they didn't our truck in there with it - its looking a little grubby, oh well maybe they'll do it next time we're here.
One of the house mates taught me how to make this really yummy chanukah food called "Latke's" they're like potato fritters/hash browns. It was a lot of fun, she even let me make the batch of them one night. I really enjoyed it because as we were making them she was sharing stories from chanukah celebrations with her family when she was younger and telling me about various traditions that her family did.
Thursday 13th December:
I was meaning to post Tuesday's entry right away but once we finally got our trailer and left the yard it was chaotic at best, the first place we had to pick up from had machine breakdowns so there was a back up of about 6 trucks before us so we had a long wait. Then we made it to the second place (there was no hope for the 3rd because they'd already closed up), only to find out they had a back up as well - we waited 2 hours there for 1 roll of paper to be loaded on. Because of bad weather we ended up parking in wisconsin that night, and got told that we could pick the last part up wednesday morning before we left...so we did and eventually got on our way.
Last night we drove until late, had to run inside and have a quick dinner before bed, we were up again early this morning, but have had to stop due to bad weather/slick roads and hubby being tired so he's having a quick nap before we continue on our way.
To top it all off? i'm coming down with a cold/flu or something. My entire body is aching, i'm sniffly, have a really sore throat (i think i've got an inflamed tonsil or gland cos one side of my throat is a bit more sore than the other). It sucks but i'll get through it. I'm taking vitamins, using anti-bacterial gel on my hands whenever i go anywhere, drinking plenty of water and trying to sleep as much as i can.
In other odd news, we saw a total of 3 semi's in ditches due to bad weather, and people not being careful. tsk tsk you'd think people would learn by now huh?
Took some photos in wisconsin on tuesday/wednesday morning so i'll upload those if i get a chance tonight. Its looking like a busy night because we're a few hours behind and we've got to try to deliver at least one part of the four tonight.
Right now though, we're back on the road. The roads are a lot better.
....about 4 hours later. Well, we just got caught in traffic for about an hour due to a car accident in the mountains in Tennessee. I don't think anyone was killed thank goodness, but people were taken away in ambulances. We happened upon it about 5 minutes after it happened, the cops hadn't even arrived on scene when we caught up with the back up. I hope everyone is okay. Turns out that a pick up truck pulling a camper van was going too fast, and tipped. its a really good thing there was a guardrail there.
We called the dispatcher and told her what was going on and that we've had a lot of issues this trip, we've got to deliver to 4 places, we might get to one of them tonight, might. I'm not stressing about it though, we'll get there when we get there.
I'm gonna go post this while I have a connection, take care guys...will update again soon. luv to you all xoxoxox
Monday, December 3, 2007
Raining...winter pics from our trip to california
Snow capped mountains in Wyoming
Wind farm in the mountains
Snow drift across the highway in the mountains.
Mountainous area in Wyoming or Nevada, i'm not entirely sure which.
Donner Pass on the way to California, This was taken at the summit... the whole place was surrounded in mist despite the sunny day it was. The highest point is about 7300ft above sea level!
Donner Pass Summit
Another shot from the rest area at Donner Pass Summit.
Moon showing itself during the daytime, taken in Utah
I really hope you guys enjoyed these photos, and i'm very sorry it took so long to get them uploaded for your enjoyment :) take care guys..have a good one. Now off to catch up on emails and messages!
Sunday, December 2, 2007
Update time from Missouri
Tuesday 27th November:
Today is a pretty huge day over here in America. The state of Maryland was hosting an international peace talk summit between a number of middle eastern countries. Take a wild guess what state Patrick and I had to go through today? Boy was security tight, and we only just barely entered the state before catching a different interstate that took us back out!They ran both us through every list possible, including my maiden name/married name in the immigration lists. Patrick was the one inside dealing with the cops, and apparently some guy in there who was a truck driver probably got arrested - he had a suspended license from new york (3 states over) due to unpaid parking tickets, and he was being really belligerent to the officers who were just trying to do their job.
Besides that fun and games things went really well, we delivered in West Virginia and we're now in Virginia picking up our next load, which is going to Illinois. Shouldn't take us more than a day to get up there, if we leave tomorrow about 5am. Dinner tonight will probably be a combination of peanut butter sandwiches or ham sandwiches (thank goodness we got the cooler a few months ago) and rice cakes. Its all good though, we've got plenty to eat in the truck.
I wont be able to post this until we get back to "civilisation" in other words somewhere that has an internet signal.
Only 9 days until we get back to the house yay. I have word that the gift Patrick got me for my Birthday/Yule has arrived at the house! i'm so excited, although I have to confess, I do know what it is because I gave him the idea for it and did the research for a good price on it. What is it? a digital camera! my currently one has been dying a sporadic death for awhile now, and Patrick knows how much I love photography so he was happy to get me one.
Saturday 1st December:
Whoops, I'm about a week behind on all this blog stuff and replying to emails...sorry!
Things are going well. We've been to Illinois, Wisconsin and we're now on our way to Arkansas where we are set to deliver tomorrow morning. Unfortunately it meant we hit part of the snow and ice storm heading its way towards Wisconsin, but it only lasted for 30 minutes or so and then we were clear of it. The area we're parking up in tonight will have slightly gusty weather but most of that isn't set to hit until tonight, after we're parked. So no need to worry about it.
I'm hoping that our destination tonight will have high speed internet so I can finally get those photos uploaded here.
The one thing I realised today is that its amazing how many idiots there are on the road in such a short space like say over 20 minutes. There were 3 major accidents and 4 minor along the same stretch of road where we encountered the ice storm. As far as I know everyone survived, but boy were the police and ambulances busy. You'd think that after seeing the state of say the SUV that had rolled over that they'd slow down and stop changing lanes like nutters but no, pat happened to look in his rear vision mirror and saw a guy race out into the left lane and spin around, landing in the grassy median facing the opposite way of traffic (yep he was fine and was damn lucky he didn't end up skidding across the median into the traffic on the other side).
Only a few more days until we get back to the house yay, got a lot of stuff to do and only a few days to do it in but its all good, especially since its our birthdays next Saturday *insert happy dance here*.
A few hours later...
Its now about 6pm here, and we've been parked at our destination for a little over 3 hours which was nice. Got to spend a bit of time reading before dinner. Just got back from dinner actually, and I'm about to post this. Unfortunately our connection is really slow here, so I'll try tomorrow for posting those photos - I promise I haven't forgotten about it. The connection here is worse than dial up, which can be slow on the best of days, this connection has trouble signing into emails! thats how slow it is. Oh well, its only until early tomorrow morning when we head off to our delivery destination.
Today is a pretty huge day over here in America. The state of Maryland was hosting an international peace talk summit between a number of middle eastern countries. Take a wild guess what state Patrick and I had to go through today? Boy was security tight, and we only just barely entered the state before catching a different interstate that took us back out!They ran both us through every list possible, including my maiden name/married name in the immigration lists. Patrick was the one inside dealing with the cops, and apparently some guy in there who was a truck driver probably got arrested - he had a suspended license from new york (3 states over) due to unpaid parking tickets, and he was being really belligerent to the officers who were just trying to do their job.
Besides that fun and games things went really well, we delivered in West Virginia and we're now in Virginia picking up our next load, which is going to Illinois. Shouldn't take us more than a day to get up there, if we leave tomorrow about 5am. Dinner tonight will probably be a combination of peanut butter sandwiches or ham sandwiches (thank goodness we got the cooler a few months ago) and rice cakes. Its all good though, we've got plenty to eat in the truck.
I wont be able to post this until we get back to "civilisation" in other words somewhere that has an internet signal.
Only 9 days until we get back to the house yay. I have word that the gift Patrick got me for my Birthday/Yule has arrived at the house! i'm so excited, although I have to confess, I do know what it is because I gave him the idea for it and did the research for a good price on it. What is it? a digital camera! my currently one has been dying a sporadic death for awhile now, and Patrick knows how much I love photography so he was happy to get me one.
Saturday 1st December:
Whoops, I'm about a week behind on all this blog stuff and replying to emails...sorry!
Things are going well. We've been to Illinois, Wisconsin and we're now on our way to Arkansas where we are set to deliver tomorrow morning. Unfortunately it meant we hit part of the snow and ice storm heading its way towards Wisconsin, but it only lasted for 30 minutes or so and then we were clear of it. The area we're parking up in tonight will have slightly gusty weather but most of that isn't set to hit until tonight, after we're parked. So no need to worry about it.
I'm hoping that our destination tonight will have high speed internet so I can finally get those photos uploaded here.
The one thing I realised today is that its amazing how many idiots there are on the road in such a short space like say over 20 minutes. There were 3 major accidents and 4 minor along the same stretch of road where we encountered the ice storm. As far as I know everyone survived, but boy were the police and ambulances busy. You'd think that after seeing the state of say the SUV that had rolled over that they'd slow down and stop changing lanes like nutters but no, pat happened to look in his rear vision mirror and saw a guy race out into the left lane and spin around, landing in the grassy median facing the opposite way of traffic (yep he was fine and was damn lucky he didn't end up skidding across the median into the traffic on the other side).
Only a few more days until we get back to the house yay, got a lot of stuff to do and only a few days to do it in but its all good, especially since its our birthdays next Saturday *insert happy dance here*.
A few hours later...
Its now about 6pm here, and we've been parked at our destination for a little over 3 hours which was nice. Got to spend a bit of time reading before dinner. Just got back from dinner actually, and I'm about to post this. Unfortunately our connection is really slow here, so I'll try tomorrow for posting those photos - I promise I haven't forgotten about it. The connection here is worse than dial up, which can be slow on the best of days, this connection has trouble signing into emails! thats how slow it is. Oh well, its only until early tomorrow morning when we head off to our delivery destination.
Monday, November 26, 2007
Thursday 22nd November:
We're on our way back to Wisconsin - slowly I might add.Things are going pretty good though. I survived the mountains and i'm not as nervous about them as I used to be so thats good.
We passed through area's with snow today!!! Mountain area's in Wyoming and Nebraska have some snow, and yes i did get photos. Its a sure sign that winter is almost here and for it to have arrived for Thanksgiving day is pretty cool. Yesterday when we were coming through Utah we saw little patches of snow, but not nearly as much as we've seen today. Word from the weather people is that Wisconsin has a bit of snow at the moment, but what remains to be seen is whether it'll be there when we get there.
This load was meant to be delivered on Friday but we're probably not going to make it until about midday on Saturday due to some issues at one of the shippers.
Got to see two new states this trip which made me happy - we've now seen Oregon and Idaho! Coming out of the hills in Idaho as the sun was rising was so beautiful, I wish my camera was able to capture stuff like that but it can't, and at least I got to experience it first hand, and that memory will stay with me. Oh and we got to drive through an Indian reservation in Nevada too! which was cool, it was about 3am so there wasn't really anyone around except the wildlife (saw a couple of wolves and a mouse who was running across the highway - he made it by the way).
Just parked up in North Platte, Nebraska and I was really happy when i realised there were snow flurries! Unfortunately they didn't stick around for long, but it was still pretty while it lasted.
Dinner was absolutely delicious tonight, the truck stop we're at was having a thanksgiving day buffet including turkey, baked ham, stuffing, mashed spuds, gravy (light and dark), mac n cheese, green beans, corn... just to name a few things. Then, the desert bar had this really yummy thing called "chocolate brownie overload" it was chocolate brownies, with fudge in the middle, topped with this white chocolate frosting and brown chocolate frosting... oooh it was good, but i could only manage part of a serving because it was so sweet. Pat ended up having bread pudding and this banana pudding thing which looked quite nice. It was so busy in there though, they had a big line of people waiting to be seated, and the poor waiter's and waitresses were run off their feet.
Sunday 25th November:
Made it back to Wisconsin fine, and even got to spend last night at the house doing laundry and catching up with house mates. It was fun. We played a little WoW, watched a bit of tv, had showers, did laundry and all that jazz then went to bed. Its a shame we couldn't be there longer but thats okay because we'll be back there in a couple of weeks.
Our next load is taking us to West Virginia, which is on the eastern side of America. Its kinda hilly with a few mountains thrown in for good measure, so it should be a beautiful sight over there at the moment.
I uploaded some of the photos i took to and from California to the laptop last night so i'll post them online a little bit later (the internet connection here isn't that great so it would take ages just to upload on of them). Hopefully we'll get a good signal at the place we're stopping at tonight. That was one of the things about going out to California, turns out the provider we use doesn't cover the west coast as well as we thought, oh well we didn't need to use it all that often while we were over there.
Oh when we were coming back from California we saw this amazing natural formation called "The Devil's Slide" I didn't manage to get a photo in time but I found a link to one online that I thought you'd like to see http://img.groundspeak.com/waymarking/display/6049c216-17ab-4eb2-9c8f-d1db78188eb5.jpg
I think i'm going to post this up now, and i'll put the photos i did take, up later tonight if we have a good connection - if not then i'll try for tomorrow :)
take care guys,
Love Corina xoxoxox
We're on our way back to Wisconsin - slowly I might add.Things are going pretty good though. I survived the mountains and i'm not as nervous about them as I used to be so thats good.
We passed through area's with snow today!!! Mountain area's in Wyoming and Nebraska have some snow, and yes i did get photos. Its a sure sign that winter is almost here and for it to have arrived for Thanksgiving day is pretty cool. Yesterday when we were coming through Utah we saw little patches of snow, but not nearly as much as we've seen today. Word from the weather people is that Wisconsin has a bit of snow at the moment, but what remains to be seen is whether it'll be there when we get there.
This load was meant to be delivered on Friday but we're probably not going to make it until about midday on Saturday due to some issues at one of the shippers.
Got to see two new states this trip which made me happy - we've now seen Oregon and Idaho! Coming out of the hills in Idaho as the sun was rising was so beautiful, I wish my camera was able to capture stuff like that but it can't, and at least I got to experience it first hand, and that memory will stay with me. Oh and we got to drive through an Indian reservation in Nevada too! which was cool, it was about 3am so there wasn't really anyone around except the wildlife (saw a couple of wolves and a mouse who was running across the highway - he made it by the way).
Just parked up in North Platte, Nebraska and I was really happy when i realised there were snow flurries! Unfortunately they didn't stick around for long, but it was still pretty while it lasted.
Dinner was absolutely delicious tonight, the truck stop we're at was having a thanksgiving day buffet including turkey, baked ham, stuffing, mashed spuds, gravy (light and dark), mac n cheese, green beans, corn... just to name a few things. Then, the desert bar had this really yummy thing called "chocolate brownie overload" it was chocolate brownies, with fudge in the middle, topped with this white chocolate frosting and brown chocolate frosting... oooh it was good, but i could only manage part of a serving because it was so sweet. Pat ended up having bread pudding and this banana pudding thing which looked quite nice. It was so busy in there though, they had a big line of people waiting to be seated, and the poor waiter's and waitresses were run off their feet.
Sunday 25th November:
Made it back to Wisconsin fine, and even got to spend last night at the house doing laundry and catching up with house mates. It was fun. We played a little WoW, watched a bit of tv, had showers, did laundry and all that jazz then went to bed. Its a shame we couldn't be there longer but thats okay because we'll be back there in a couple of weeks.
Our next load is taking us to West Virginia, which is on the eastern side of America. Its kinda hilly with a few mountains thrown in for good measure, so it should be a beautiful sight over there at the moment.
I uploaded some of the photos i took to and from California to the laptop last night so i'll post them online a little bit later (the internet connection here isn't that great so it would take ages just to upload on of them). Hopefully we'll get a good signal at the place we're stopping at tonight. That was one of the things about going out to California, turns out the provider we use doesn't cover the west coast as well as we thought, oh well we didn't need to use it all that often while we were over there.
Oh when we were coming back from California we saw this amazing natural formation called "The Devil's Slide" I didn't manage to get a photo in time but I found a link to one online that I thought you'd like to see http://img.groundspeak.com/waymarking/display/6049c216-17ab-4eb2-9c8f-d1db78188eb5.jpg
I think i'm going to post this up now, and i'll put the photos i did take, up later tonight if we have a good connection - if not then i'll try for tomorrow :)
take care guys,
Love Corina xoxoxox
Monday, November 19, 2007
Arrived in Cali and other updates leading to it.
Thursday 15th November:
We're back in the truck today, and we're heading to California! (again). This time its to a town near Sacramento which isn't too bad. I'm hoping its a bit warmer over there than it is here at the moment. There has been a few snow flurries but nothing overly consistent.
At this very moment we're sitting at the customer's waiting to be loaded. Its a small company so it could take awhile. Thats okay though I'm getting feeling back in my fingers so I'll probably make the bed and finish organising everything into its place for the trip ahead.
We had a really nice home time, though I'm a little sad that its over. As I mentioned before, the next time we'll be at home will be for our birthdays (we'll arrive on the 6th, our birthday's are on the 8th in case anyone wants to call us).
Saturday 17th November:
Not much to report about yesterday really, was a full on day driving and we made it to our destination safe and sound. Even managed to have a good dinner (grilled chicken burger with cheese..and fries of course). Went to bed about 8pm because I was really tired.
We found out yesterday what our reload is! its going from california back to wisconsin, in fact its going to a town about 5 minutes down the road from the house! how groovy is that.
Saw a shooting star this morning that was really cool, didn't get a chance to get a photo of it though, oh well.
The sun is coming up while I'm typing this, its so beautiful.
We're hopefully having dinner with Mat tonight, he doesn't live too far from where we're parking for the night so hopefully he isn't busy. It was his birthday yesterday so he might not be feeling well enough to leave the house.
Sunday 18th November:
Had dinner with Mat last night, was fun. Nice to catch up with him again though he looked a little under the weather after his birthday party celebrations the night (or should I say that morning). Got to spend about an hour with him over dinner chatting about things.
We made it California safe and sound, we're delivering in the morning and heading off to get our next load (or at least part of it) picked up.
I did get some beautiful shots today and i'll upload them tomorrow since its getting late here. According to our time its 9:45pm, but local time its only 7:45pm so you can imagine how much fun it is trying to work off of two time zones. We had a later dinner by our schedule but to everyone else around us it was a late lunch/early dinner.
Sorry this is yet another short entry i'm feeling pretty tired right now and just want to get some sleep.
We're back in the truck today, and we're heading to California! (again). This time its to a town near Sacramento which isn't too bad. I'm hoping its a bit warmer over there than it is here at the moment. There has been a few snow flurries but nothing overly consistent.
At this very moment we're sitting at the customer's waiting to be loaded. Its a small company so it could take awhile. Thats okay though I'm getting feeling back in my fingers so I'll probably make the bed and finish organising everything into its place for the trip ahead.
We had a really nice home time, though I'm a little sad that its over. As I mentioned before, the next time we'll be at home will be for our birthdays (we'll arrive on the 6th, our birthday's are on the 8th in case anyone wants to call us).
Saturday 17th November:
Not much to report about yesterday really, was a full on day driving and we made it to our destination safe and sound. Even managed to have a good dinner (grilled chicken burger with cheese..and fries of course). Went to bed about 8pm because I was really tired.
We found out yesterday what our reload is! its going from california back to wisconsin, in fact its going to a town about 5 minutes down the road from the house! how groovy is that.
Saw a shooting star this morning that was really cool, didn't get a chance to get a photo of it though, oh well.
The sun is coming up while I'm typing this, its so beautiful.
We're hopefully having dinner with Mat tonight, he doesn't live too far from where we're parking for the night so hopefully he isn't busy. It was his birthday yesterday so he might not be feeling well enough to leave the house.
Sunday 18th November:
Had dinner with Mat last night, was fun. Nice to catch up with him again though he looked a little under the weather after his birthday party celebrations the night (or should I say that morning). Got to spend about an hour with him over dinner chatting about things.
We made it California safe and sound, we're delivering in the morning and heading off to get our next load (or at least part of it) picked up.
I did get some beautiful shots today and i'll upload them tomorrow since its getting late here. According to our time its 9:45pm, but local time its only 7:45pm so you can imagine how much fun it is trying to work off of two time zones. We had a later dinner by our schedule but to everyone else around us it was a late lunch/early dinner.
Sorry this is yet another short entry i'm feeling pretty tired right now and just want to get some sleep.
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Sunday through to Tuesday's Posts
Sunday 11th November:
Its been a pretty busy past few days on the truck, we've be running back and forth to Wisconsin delivering loads, in the hopes that tomorrow morning we'll get to head home for our home time.
I'm getting really excited about our early thanksgiving dinner that we're having on Tuesday night. There is even a rumor that Marj is making ANZAC cookies!!! hehe okay so its not traditional part of American thanksgiving but i'm looking forward to them. Last batch she made were eaten within 2 weeks (and we had 3 ice cream pails full of them hehe).
I'm trying to think of some of the fun and interesting things that have happened over the past few days since I last wrote an entry, but honestly my mind is drawing a blank! i'm thinking its a side effect of my odd sleep patterns over the past few days. They've had us running pretty hard, heck I was in bed by 8pm last night of my own accord, I was just that tired.
Monday 12th November:
Yay we're heading to the house today. Its going to be a bit full on over the next few days, we've got a lot to squeeze in and only a few days to do it. After the folks pick us up today we've gotta head to town and get chanukah/christmas/yule pressies for people (because various people in the house celebrate different religious holidays). Then its back to the house to relax for the evening.
Tuesday will be spent cleaning/getting everything ready for our early thanksgiving dinner that night, Pat and I both have to head into town and get a haircut then its back home for the dinner (still very excited). I also have to catch up on missed episodes of Heroes, NCIS and if possible Stargate Atlantis (though I'm 2 season's behind on that one). I need to remember to set the DVR to record "Tin Man", a sci-fi mini series remake of the wizard of oz. It really looks good for a sci-fi movie (They're either really good or really bad but funny at the same time).
Wednesday however is our relax day, we'll probably play a little WOW, get last minute things together to head back out on the road on Thursday.
After this time in, our next scheduled time should be about our birthdays so anyone wanting to call the house will be able to. I think after that we'll be scheduled to come in about new years. Then before you know it it'll be 2008!
In case you're wondering Wisconsin has had a bit of snow, but not too much and none of it has stuck which is sad but oh well, winter will be in full swing soon enough.
How's everyone else doing these days?
Tuesday 13th November:
Dinner tonight was wonderful! I feel absolutely stuffed. We ended up having.. turkey (22lbs!), mashed spuds, gravy, salad, sweet potato pie, baby carrots, stuffing, blueberry pie and chocolate mousse pie!!!!!! so good! then to top if off we had ANZAC cookies, mollasses cookies and snicker doodles. I'll try to get some photos in the morning if there's still leftovers.
Got my haircut today, its shorter, above my shoulders with layers, I absolutely love it. Unfortunately I went to take a pic of it tonight and realised both sets of batteries for the camera need charging, so i'll leave them to that tonight and get a pic in the morning.
Caught up on NCIS today, and tomorrow will be heroes days YAY, I really do love that show. Its so funny. If you haven't checked it out yet, you should!
well i'm going to bed now, my back has been acting up most of today and I'm pretty tired, take care guys
Until next time... remember to smile.
Its been a pretty busy past few days on the truck, we've be running back and forth to Wisconsin delivering loads, in the hopes that tomorrow morning we'll get to head home for our home time.
I'm getting really excited about our early thanksgiving dinner that we're having on Tuesday night. There is even a rumor that Marj is making ANZAC cookies!!! hehe okay so its not traditional part of American thanksgiving but i'm looking forward to them. Last batch she made were eaten within 2 weeks (and we had 3 ice cream pails full of them hehe).
I'm trying to think of some of the fun and interesting things that have happened over the past few days since I last wrote an entry, but honestly my mind is drawing a blank! i'm thinking its a side effect of my odd sleep patterns over the past few days. They've had us running pretty hard, heck I was in bed by 8pm last night of my own accord, I was just that tired.
Monday 12th November:
Yay we're heading to the house today. Its going to be a bit full on over the next few days, we've got a lot to squeeze in and only a few days to do it. After the folks pick us up today we've gotta head to town and get chanukah/christmas/yule pressies for people (because various people in the house celebrate different religious holidays). Then its back to the house to relax for the evening.
Tuesday will be spent cleaning/getting everything ready for our early thanksgiving dinner that night, Pat and I both have to head into town and get a haircut then its back home for the dinner (still very excited). I also have to catch up on missed episodes of Heroes, NCIS and if possible Stargate Atlantis (though I'm 2 season's behind on that one). I need to remember to set the DVR to record "Tin Man", a sci-fi mini series remake of the wizard of oz. It really looks good for a sci-fi movie (They're either really good or really bad but funny at the same time).
Wednesday however is our relax day, we'll probably play a little WOW, get last minute things together to head back out on the road on Thursday.
After this time in, our next scheduled time should be about our birthdays so anyone wanting to call the house will be able to. I think after that we'll be scheduled to come in about new years. Then before you know it it'll be 2008!
In case you're wondering Wisconsin has had a bit of snow, but not too much and none of it has stuck which is sad but oh well, winter will be in full swing soon enough.
How's everyone else doing these days?
Tuesday 13th November:
Dinner tonight was wonderful! I feel absolutely stuffed. We ended up having.. turkey (22lbs!), mashed spuds, gravy, salad, sweet potato pie, baby carrots, stuffing, blueberry pie and chocolate mousse pie!!!!!! so good! then to top if off we had ANZAC cookies, mollasses cookies and snicker doodles. I'll try to get some photos in the morning if there's still leftovers.
Got my haircut today, its shorter, above my shoulders with layers, I absolutely love it. Unfortunately I went to take a pic of it tonight and realised both sets of batteries for the camera need charging, so i'll leave them to that tonight and get a pic in the morning.
Caught up on NCIS today, and tomorrow will be heroes days YAY, I really do love that show. Its so funny. If you haven't checked it out yet, you should!
well i'm going to bed now, my back has been acting up most of today and I'm pretty tired, take care guys
Until next time... remember to smile.
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Wisconsin is cold
Wednesday 7th November:
Hey guys! we're currently sitting in Wisconsin where we're delivering our load to tonight (yay) no idea where we'll head off to tomorrow though hehe, every day is a new adventure.
Still planning on being back at the house on the 12th, so if you want to try and catch me online, that could be a really good time. Granted the night of the 13th might not be that good for me, because we're having a thanksgiving dinner so i don't think i'll be logged in all that much.
As for that load I mentioned last time. Basically it was a high security load (which is kinda cool if you think about it, they trust hubby enough with it to let him have one). The instructions for the load were really crazy, things like "don't talk about the load, where it was from, where its going, and especially not about what was on it", we even had to keep the truck/trailer within sight at all times,not to mention the lock on it was huge! it weighed a tonne as well and had to be cut off at the delivery place with special bolt cutters. What did we haul, that could possibly warrant that much trouble you might be asking? big screen tv's! nutty huh?
well we've got about an hour or so before we have to head off, i'm going to curl up with a book for a bit.
take care guys
Luv Corina xoxox
Hey guys! we're currently sitting in Wisconsin where we're delivering our load to tonight (yay) no idea where we'll head off to tomorrow though hehe, every day is a new adventure.
Still planning on being back at the house on the 12th, so if you want to try and catch me online, that could be a really good time. Granted the night of the 13th might not be that good for me, because we're having a thanksgiving dinner so i don't think i'll be logged in all that much.
As for that load I mentioned last time. Basically it was a high security load (which is kinda cool if you think about it, they trust hubby enough with it to let him have one). The instructions for the load were really crazy, things like "don't talk about the load, where it was from, where its going, and especially not about what was on it", we even had to keep the truck/trailer within sight at all times,not to mention the lock on it was huge! it weighed a tonne as well and had to be cut off at the delivery place with special bolt cutters. What did we haul, that could possibly warrant that much trouble you might be asking? big screen tv's! nutty huh?
well we've got about an hour or so before we have to head off, i'm going to curl up with a book for a bit.
take care guys
Luv Corina xoxox
Sunday, November 4, 2007
Photos from Texas....
Kennith made his return to the truck this trip, after having surgery, his battery ran out and had to be replace (you can kinda see the scar). Welcome back Kennith!
A Texas Oil refinery (yes and a 17ft 4in bridge sign in front of it)
Kennith the kiwi experiencing Texas
A lot of parts of Texas look like this hehe
Saturday, November 3, 2007
Texas.... the stars at night, a big and bright.....
Thursday 1st November:
We've been back on the road for a couple of days now, and are currently sitting in Arkansas - on our way to Texas.
Didn't have an overly great day yesterday, had some problem at a shipper that put us 2 hours behind schedule. Oh well we got out of there and to our destination for sleep last night so thats the main thing.
So things are plodding along like usual. We're going to deliver later today in Texas, and we're not sure where to after that but i'm sure we'll find out within the next few hours.
Oh random thought - we found a store that sells strawberry fanta bottles this morning! its not common, usually you see the normal fanta and from time to time the grape fanta. I wish they'd pick up on the tropical or pineapple fanta craze that was in nz. Someone in nz could answer this for me - do they still sell the whole fanta range they used to have?
We've been traveling through areas with a lot of old historic houses recently. There was a little town in Alabama where we went down a main road, and every house on the street was historic, and had a plaque outside detailing its history and what made it famous. Unfortunately there wasn't anywhere for us to park, let alone enough time in our schedule to stop and sight see. I'm starting a list of places like that town where I wanna visit in a car, so I can stop and take photos/explore with plenty of time.
Thats part of what I'm enjoying about America, there's all these cute, little places, off the beaten path that are really worth checking out. Its just a matter of finding time!
We're planning on being back at the house about the 12th November for an early thanksgiving! (YAY). I'm looking forward to it. Last year we combined Halloween AND Thanksgiving, that was awesome fun. Why did we do that you might be asking? well Marj and Alan were heading south for the winter, and hobbit was heading to her folks place for the actual thanksgiving day so it was the last chance to do something together for the holidays.
Jami! thank you for your reply the other day. I really liked the food photo ideas, so i'll get started on that this week.
Friday 2nd November:
We got our next load, it was heading to El Paso, Texas! yup folks right near the border to Mexico!!! its odd being in America (we're still in Texas), yet being the only English speaking people in the restaurant hehe oh well, at least our waitress spoke English. The food was good (just your regular American food - burgers, fries, pasta...that kinda thing).
We delivered our load here this afternoon, and got our reload heading back into the heart of the US, I'll tell you guys more about it later. Yes I know its horribly cryptic, but you'll understand afterwards why I have to be.
Onto other things... Texas is a very very huge state. This morning we started about Dallas/ft worth area which wasn't too bad - it was chilly enough for me to wear a sweater. The further west we got...the warmer it got! Thankfully the sun is going down now, so I can venture outside and not be too bothered by it.
There were parts of the trip today where I honestly felt out of place without a cowboy hat and boots. In fact we were so far out there in the middle of cowboy/ranch-land that there was one stretch of road where we could only get 1 radio station... it lasted for about an hour or so before we got nearer to a bigger (heh i use that term loosely) town which had a different station (yay for golden oldies!). I think the oddest moment was when we were so far out in the middle of nowhere all we got was a Spanish rap station, that was really weird. All in all today has been really awesome, very funny some moments, boring and silly others.
I took some photos today, I'll upload them tomorrow night If we get parked at a decent hour.
Well its getting late (okay so its only 7:30pm but when you've been up since 3am thats a long damn day), So I'm gonna go head to bed and get some sleep. Ahh glorious sleep, how I missed thee!
Take care guys!
Luv Corina xoxox
We've been back on the road for a couple of days now, and are currently sitting in Arkansas - on our way to Texas.
Didn't have an overly great day yesterday, had some problem at a shipper that put us 2 hours behind schedule. Oh well we got out of there and to our destination for sleep last night so thats the main thing.
So things are plodding along like usual. We're going to deliver later today in Texas, and we're not sure where to after that but i'm sure we'll find out within the next few hours.
Oh random thought - we found a store that sells strawberry fanta bottles this morning! its not common, usually you see the normal fanta and from time to time the grape fanta. I wish they'd pick up on the tropical or pineapple fanta craze that was in nz. Someone in nz could answer this for me - do they still sell the whole fanta range they used to have?
We've been traveling through areas with a lot of old historic houses recently. There was a little town in Alabama where we went down a main road, and every house on the street was historic, and had a plaque outside detailing its history and what made it famous. Unfortunately there wasn't anywhere for us to park, let alone enough time in our schedule to stop and sight see. I'm starting a list of places like that town where I wanna visit in a car, so I can stop and take photos/explore with plenty of time.
Thats part of what I'm enjoying about America, there's all these cute, little places, off the beaten path that are really worth checking out. Its just a matter of finding time!
We're planning on being back at the house about the 12th November for an early thanksgiving! (YAY). I'm looking forward to it. Last year we combined Halloween AND Thanksgiving, that was awesome fun. Why did we do that you might be asking? well Marj and Alan were heading south for the winter, and hobbit was heading to her folks place for the actual thanksgiving day so it was the last chance to do something together for the holidays.
Jami! thank you for your reply the other day. I really liked the food photo ideas, so i'll get started on that this week.
Friday 2nd November:
We got our next load, it was heading to El Paso, Texas! yup folks right near the border to Mexico!!! its odd being in America (we're still in Texas), yet being the only English speaking people in the restaurant hehe oh well, at least our waitress spoke English. The food was good (just your regular American food - burgers, fries, pasta...that kinda thing).
We delivered our load here this afternoon, and got our reload heading back into the heart of the US, I'll tell you guys more about it later. Yes I know its horribly cryptic, but you'll understand afterwards why I have to be.
Onto other things... Texas is a very very huge state. This morning we started about Dallas/ft worth area which wasn't too bad - it was chilly enough for me to wear a sweater. The further west we got...the warmer it got! Thankfully the sun is going down now, so I can venture outside and not be too bothered by it.
There were parts of the trip today where I honestly felt out of place without a cowboy hat and boots. In fact we were so far out there in the middle of cowboy/ranch-land that there was one stretch of road where we could only get 1 radio station... it lasted for about an hour or so before we got nearer to a bigger (heh i use that term loosely) town which had a different station (yay for golden oldies!). I think the oddest moment was when we were so far out in the middle of nowhere all we got was a Spanish rap station, that was really weird. All in all today has been really awesome, very funny some moments, boring and silly others.
I took some photos today, I'll upload them tomorrow night If we get parked at a decent hour.
Well its getting late (okay so its only 7:30pm but when you've been up since 3am thats a long damn day), So I'm gonna go head to bed and get some sleep. Ahh glorious sleep, how I missed thee!
Take care guys!
Luv Corina xoxox
Friday, October 26, 2007
At The House
Hi guys,
We're back at the house for the weekend. Just wanted to let you guys know that we're not anywhere near the fires in california.
We're back at the house for the weekend. Just wanted to let you guys know that we're not anywhere near the fires in california.
Monday, October 22, 2007
Greetings from Alabama
Tuesday 16th October:
Well I'm back on the truck! hehe Pat came home for the night last night because he had a load that delivered near the yard but wasn't due to be delivered until 6pm tonight, and I decided to go back on the road with him.
Sunday 21st October:
Its been quite the week, roaming around all over the place. We've been to Arkansas, back to Wisconsin, and we're sitting in Alabama, waiting to deliver tomorrow at 3 places. We'll either be sent over to Texas, or back up towards Wisconsin.
Things have been good on the truck, though we didn't have a wonderful dinner tonight (the buffet wasn't the best, though on the bright side I got a pretty big helping of salad because it was edible). For the most part we have dinner's at truck stops (though we have bread and sandwich supplies on hand should we not make it to a truck stop or have to park for a few hours at a customers). We have discovered a few really good places to eat so thats a bonus.
My favourite place to eat however we can't take a truck so I just have to wait until we get to Texarkana so we can borrow the car and go there. The name of this awesome restaurant? Its called "The Cracker Barrel". Its gimmick is that its "old fashion" cooking, and boy is it good. I swear that they have grandma's in the kitchen back there keeping a good eye on the chef's. They also have a store out front where you can buy things like old fashion candy/chocolate (including hershey's chocolate in old style wrappers), and cool stuff like that. They also sell clothes, candles, books... and a bunch of other stuff, but the food really is delicious.
We'll be back at the house this coming weekend, as we're throwing a Halloween party. I'm really looking forward to it, we've invited a couple of people over for dinner so it should be good. Some of us are dressing up, and yeah I might post photo's, if I remember to take some hehe.
Well i'd better go and post this. I'll write again in a couple of days.
Well I'm back on the truck! hehe Pat came home for the night last night because he had a load that delivered near the yard but wasn't due to be delivered until 6pm tonight, and I decided to go back on the road with him.
Sunday 21st October:
Its been quite the week, roaming around all over the place. We've been to Arkansas, back to Wisconsin, and we're sitting in Alabama, waiting to deliver tomorrow at 3 places. We'll either be sent over to Texas, or back up towards Wisconsin.
Things have been good on the truck, though we didn't have a wonderful dinner tonight (the buffet wasn't the best, though on the bright side I got a pretty big helping of salad because it was edible). For the most part we have dinner's at truck stops (though we have bread and sandwich supplies on hand should we not make it to a truck stop or have to park for a few hours at a customers). We have discovered a few really good places to eat so thats a bonus.
My favourite place to eat however we can't take a truck so I just have to wait until we get to Texarkana so we can borrow the car and go there. The name of this awesome restaurant? Its called "The Cracker Barrel". Its gimmick is that its "old fashion" cooking, and boy is it good. I swear that they have grandma's in the kitchen back there keeping a good eye on the chef's. They also have a store out front where you can buy things like old fashion candy/chocolate (including hershey's chocolate in old style wrappers), and cool stuff like that. They also sell clothes, candles, books... and a bunch of other stuff, but the food really is delicious.
We'll be back at the house this coming weekend, as we're throwing a Halloween party. I'm really looking forward to it, we've invited a couple of people over for dinner so it should be good. Some of us are dressing up, and yeah I might post photo's, if I remember to take some hehe.
Well i'd better go and post this. I'll write again in a couple of days.
Monday, October 15, 2007
Life at the house
Sunday 14th October:
Things are going well at the house. I've been keeping in touch with Patrick via phone calls and ventrillo (a voice chat program we use with some of his gaming friends). He's doing well. They've been giving him some good runs, nothing too urgent or that requires long days for him. I'm glad because he deserves some time to relax.
He's been to Pennsylvania, Delaware, back to Pennsylvania and towards Chicago, which is where he is tonight.
As for me, i've been spending time reading, cleaning and play world of warcraft. Its been really nice. But for now, i'm going to watch the latest episode of heroes online then curl up in bed with a book :)
Things are going well at the house. I've been keeping in touch with Patrick via phone calls and ventrillo (a voice chat program we use with some of his gaming friends). He's doing well. They've been giving him some good runs, nothing too urgent or that requires long days for him. I'm glad because he deserves some time to relax.
He's been to Pennsylvania, Delaware, back to Pennsylvania and towards Chicago, which is where he is tonight.
As for me, i've been spending time reading, cleaning and play world of warcraft. Its been really nice. But for now, i'm going to watch the latest episode of heroes online then curl up in bed with a book :)
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
quick update
Just a quick update to let you all know we're at the house.
There was a shooting at a high school in Wisconsin, and I just wanted to let you guys that it wasn't very close to us - the town is about 2 hours north of here. So we're all fine, and thankfully don't know anyone who was involved.
I'll post a proper update tomorrow, as for now I'm off to curl up on the couch and watch Heroes.
There was a shooting at a high school in Wisconsin, and I just wanted to let you guys that it wasn't very close to us - the town is about 2 hours north of here. So we're all fine, and thankfully don't know anyone who was involved.
I'll post a proper update tomorrow, as for now I'm off to curl up on the couch and watch Heroes.
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
end of september/ start of october
Sunday 30th September:
goood morning people read this. What a busy few days we've had. Friday we got our weekend load, going to Oklahoma (where pat's sisters are), and we were so excited. I was finally getting to meet them! and meet our nieces. They actually planned us a BBQ for when we arrived. All was going well, we went inside the truck stop for dinner and by the time we'd gotten back out - we'd been given new loads. The amusing part of this was that we were assigned under 3 loads at the one time - our load we had on, the load we had to pick up at the yard and deliver to 2 places and then the one we're meant to pick up and take back to Wisconsin! all due on the same day/within short time of each other. It was awesome. So why did this happen? it seems a driver went into the terminal on Friday (about home time for the planners etc) and quit... the sucky thing, he was had a load on at the time not only that but they were a very important customer and HAD to have their load on time.
So no meeting up with pat's sisters, yet. We're determined to go seem them one day, maybe when he gets his vacation we can plan a trip.
Even though I was pretty sad about not being able to meet the sisters, there is one good thing about our new loads - they take me to the very town a good friend from online lives in. I've talked to her online for the past 7 or more years. She lives about 6hrs drive from us but with gas prices being expensive, and having to organise a time when someone could drive me, meant this task was pretty hard. I'm excited, she's a good friend and i'm even getting to meet her son which i feel honored about - since she once told me that she'd never let her son meet anyone with her from online unless she absolutely trusted them.
Thats whats happening at the moment, we're on our way to her town to get the load that heads back to Wisconsin and hopefully meet up and have lunch with them. Fingers crossed everything works out.
Monday 1st October:
Everything went great at the meet, I was just a little sad we couldn't stay longer with them, but everyone seemed to have fun all the same. I'm hoping that we'll be able to meet up again soon and for longer. She's as awesome in person as she is online. Her son was really cool too, very smart and cheeky ... he takes after her thats for sure.
We dropped our load last night and parked up until we got our next load assignment. So we're going from Wisconsin to Texas woohoo. At the moment we're in Illinois where we'll be parking for the night. Its going to be an early day tomorrow though, probably start about 3:30am yay.
Took some pics of the truck today (without a trailer attached) so i'll probably drag them off the camera tomorrow night and get them up either tomorrow night or the next day - depends on how much spare time / non-moving time we get over the next day or so.
We should be home this coming Monday (8th October), yay! so happy and excited about that. I get the feeling we'll need to gather up our winter stuff (gloves/hats/thick jackets) when we go back out, its starting to cool down these days.
I think I'm gonna post this online then read for a wee bit before we arrive at the truck stop.
Hope everyone is well xoxox
goood morning people read this. What a busy few days we've had. Friday we got our weekend load, going to Oklahoma (where pat's sisters are), and we were so excited. I was finally getting to meet them! and meet our nieces. They actually planned us a BBQ for when we arrived. All was going well, we went inside the truck stop for dinner and by the time we'd gotten back out - we'd been given new loads. The amusing part of this was that we were assigned under 3 loads at the one time - our load we had on, the load we had to pick up at the yard and deliver to 2 places and then the one we're meant to pick up and take back to Wisconsin! all due on the same day/within short time of each other. It was awesome. So why did this happen? it seems a driver went into the terminal on Friday (about home time for the planners etc) and quit... the sucky thing, he was had a load on at the time not only that but they were a very important customer and HAD to have their load on time.
So no meeting up with pat's sisters, yet. We're determined to go seem them one day, maybe when he gets his vacation we can plan a trip.
Even though I was pretty sad about not being able to meet the sisters, there is one good thing about our new loads - they take me to the very town a good friend from online lives in. I've talked to her online for the past 7 or more years. She lives about 6hrs drive from us but with gas prices being expensive, and having to organise a time when someone could drive me, meant this task was pretty hard. I'm excited, she's a good friend and i'm even getting to meet her son which i feel honored about - since she once told me that she'd never let her son meet anyone with her from online unless she absolutely trusted them.
Thats whats happening at the moment, we're on our way to her town to get the load that heads back to Wisconsin and hopefully meet up and have lunch with them. Fingers crossed everything works out.
Monday 1st October:
Everything went great at the meet, I was just a little sad we couldn't stay longer with them, but everyone seemed to have fun all the same. I'm hoping that we'll be able to meet up again soon and for longer. She's as awesome in person as she is online. Her son was really cool too, very smart and cheeky ... he takes after her thats for sure.
We dropped our load last night and parked up until we got our next load assignment. So we're going from Wisconsin to Texas woohoo. At the moment we're in Illinois where we'll be parking for the night. Its going to be an early day tomorrow though, probably start about 3:30am yay.
Took some pics of the truck today (without a trailer attached) so i'll probably drag them off the camera tomorrow night and get them up either tomorrow night or the next day - depends on how much spare time / non-moving time we get over the next day or so.
We should be home this coming Monday (8th October), yay! so happy and excited about that. I get the feeling we'll need to gather up our winter stuff (gloves/hats/thick jackets) when we go back out, its starting to cool down these days.
I think I'm gonna post this online then read for a wee bit before we arrive at the truck stop.
Hope everyone is well xoxox
Thursday, September 27, 2007
We went to Florida!
Tuesday 25th September:
We've been back on the truck since thursday, and our first load out was a fun one! We headed off to wally world to pick up a trailer, then got our load the next morning.. heading to.... Florida!! Sunday we arrived here, parked up for the afternoon and delivered in the very early hours of monday. Then came the fun part - we had to sit all of yesterday and part of today waiting for our reload. It would seem that they were having a little trouble getting a load for us out of Florida hehe. They finally found one this morning and we're on our way to get it now.
The time we spent in Florida was pretty good, I was a little sad I didn't see any gators but at the same time a tad relieved. It was really hot (by my standards, pat kept hassling me that it wasn't hot, it was fall temps) and humid, but thankfully the ac in the truck was working.
Wednesday 26th September:
Well we're at our destination in Arkansas (Conway, Arkansas to be exact) and we got our next load assignment.... to Indiana! hehe compared with how we've been running lately, the delivery isn't until a little later - 6am hehe.
Oh mum, I remembered to email Sheldon (finally!). I'll hopefully hear back from him soon.
Sorry this is so short, The past week or so hasn't been overly exciting, the same stuff day in and day out really.
I'll write again soon.
We've been back on the truck since thursday, and our first load out was a fun one! We headed off to wally world to pick up a trailer, then got our load the next morning.. heading to.... Florida!! Sunday we arrived here, parked up for the afternoon and delivered in the very early hours of monday. Then came the fun part - we had to sit all of yesterday and part of today waiting for our reload. It would seem that they were having a little trouble getting a load for us out of Florida hehe. They finally found one this morning and we're on our way to get it now.
The time we spent in Florida was pretty good, I was a little sad I didn't see any gators but at the same time a tad relieved. It was really hot (by my standards, pat kept hassling me that it wasn't hot, it was fall temps) and humid, but thankfully the ac in the truck was working.
Wednesday 26th September:
Well we're at our destination in Arkansas (Conway, Arkansas to be exact) and we got our next load assignment.... to Indiana! hehe compared with how we've been running lately, the delivery isn't until a little later - 6am hehe.
Oh mum, I remembered to email Sheldon (finally!). I'll hopefully hear back from him soon.
Sorry this is so short, The past week or so hasn't been overly exciting, the same stuff day in and day out really.
I'll write again soon.
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Greetings from my camera!
Some photos from our last trip out :) enjoy guys!
September 11th 2007 (Sunset over the Lake in Wisconsin called "Butte des morts" which translates to "hill of the dead")
Sunrise in Indiana
This is the view going through part of "Fancy Gap" in Virginia
A cute wee house in Eutaw, Alabama - that town is really cute with a lot of historic houses and building
Beef for dinner! (yes it was a cattle truck, and yes it did have cows on it he he he)
Art with hay is fun! ( somewhere between Demopolis and Eutaw, Alabama)
September 11th 2007 (Sunset over the Lake in Wisconsin called "Butte des morts" which translates to "hill of the dead")
Sunrise in Indiana
This is the view going through part of "Fancy Gap" in Virginia
A cute wee house in Eutaw, Alabama - that town is really cute with a lot of historic houses and building
Beef for dinner! (yes it was a cattle truck, and yes it did have cows on it he he he)
Art with hay is fun! ( somewhere between Demopolis and Eutaw, Alabama)
Monday, September 17, 2007
another update
Sunday 16th September:
What a week its been! its been so busy, its been hard to find time to sleep (don't worry pat is getting plenty of sleep, i've had to stay up to do things like laundry or keep an eye on our load being put on to let him know when they've finished). I think in a 2 day period i'd had a total of 7 hours sleep. Why had we been doing this? because we'd been stuck on driving at night time schedules and delivering early in the morning or really late at night. Thankfully though we stopped about 1pm the other day so we could get to bed about 6pm, i slept right through until 5am the next morning hehe. I felt a million times better afterwards though so its all good.
We've currently got a load on, it came from Alabama and is going to Wisconsin (which is the state we're in at the moment). To be delivered in the morning, we're only about 30 minutes down the road so thats no problem. That day we parked up early, something really annoying happened to our trailer - it got hit while we were inside having something to eat. Its a curtain side which is why its been a bit of an issue, the curtain partially ripped and with a load on (and the wet weather we've been having), we had to rig it up with wire and duct tape to keep the load from getting wet. Chances are the company is going to want us to go to the terminal here in wisconsin to fix it - you can't haul anything with it the way it is, heck we're going to have to undo what we've done so the people can unload whats on there.
Pat is going to ask his fleet manager if we can take our home time a few days early since we'll be at the yard, and they wont have to deadhead us twice (deadhead is what they call it when you travel places without a load - they're not making money which is why they don't like to do it too often). Not to mention our truck needs a couple of things looked at like the cigarette lighter in the back that we need functioning for our cooler and other electronics.
I found my necklace yesterday YAY, and all because my bookmark slipped down beside the bed. Its been missing for a few weeks now (the necklace), and i was a little worried i wouldn't find it seeing as how i looked in 99% of the nooks and crannies this place has. Turns out that under the side table there's a little dip down that it rolled under. Buts its all good now, and i've got it in a safe place so i wont lose it again.
I've got some photos from the past couple of weeks off the camera, its just a matter of uploading them to the blog. I'll do that tonight if we get the okay to go back to the house.
Hope everyone is well, safe and happy, love you guys!
Corina xoxox
What a week its been! its been so busy, its been hard to find time to sleep (don't worry pat is getting plenty of sleep, i've had to stay up to do things like laundry or keep an eye on our load being put on to let him know when they've finished). I think in a 2 day period i'd had a total of 7 hours sleep. Why had we been doing this? because we'd been stuck on driving at night time schedules and delivering early in the morning or really late at night. Thankfully though we stopped about 1pm the other day so we could get to bed about 6pm, i slept right through until 5am the next morning hehe. I felt a million times better afterwards though so its all good.
We've currently got a load on, it came from Alabama and is going to Wisconsin (which is the state we're in at the moment). To be delivered in the morning, we're only about 30 minutes down the road so thats no problem. That day we parked up early, something really annoying happened to our trailer - it got hit while we were inside having something to eat. Its a curtain side which is why its been a bit of an issue, the curtain partially ripped and with a load on (and the wet weather we've been having), we had to rig it up with wire and duct tape to keep the load from getting wet. Chances are the company is going to want us to go to the terminal here in wisconsin to fix it - you can't haul anything with it the way it is, heck we're going to have to undo what we've done so the people can unload whats on there.
Pat is going to ask his fleet manager if we can take our home time a few days early since we'll be at the yard, and they wont have to deadhead us twice (deadhead is what they call it when you travel places without a load - they're not making money which is why they don't like to do it too often). Not to mention our truck needs a couple of things looked at like the cigarette lighter in the back that we need functioning for our cooler and other electronics.
I found my necklace yesterday YAY, and all because my bookmark slipped down beside the bed. Its been missing for a few weeks now (the necklace), and i was a little worried i wouldn't find it seeing as how i looked in 99% of the nooks and crannies this place has. Turns out that under the side table there's a little dip down that it rolled under. Buts its all good now, and i've got it in a safe place so i wont lose it again.
I've got some photos from the past couple of weeks off the camera, its just a matter of uploading them to the blog. I'll do that tonight if we get the okay to go back to the house.
Hope everyone is well, safe and happy, love you guys!
Corina xoxox
Monday, September 10, 2007
Its the Weekend
Saturday 8th September:
We left the terminal thursday morning, picked up that day and ran our butts over here to North Carolina to deliver yesterday. Last night we relaxed, pat played some wow and I read. We got a frozen coke slushie last night, I haven't had one in such a long time so that was fun. This morning we're heading to Virginia to collect our next load which will be delivered in Illinois monday morning.
Sunday 9th September:
We're currently somewhere in Kentucky, making our way towards Illinois. This morning was fun, I was watching the deer, there were 3 little ones, not much bigger than a puppy, standing right beside the highway while semi's sped on by them. they didn't freak out or run away, it was amazing. I'm really looking forward to stopping tonight so I can have a shower and catch an early night. Virginia and west virginia are really beautiful, especially first thing in the morning while the sun is coming up over the mountains, and there's a hazy mist covering everything.
We left the terminal thursday morning, picked up that day and ran our butts over here to North Carolina to deliver yesterday. Last night we relaxed, pat played some wow and I read. We got a frozen coke slushie last night, I haven't had one in such a long time so that was fun. This morning we're heading to Virginia to collect our next load which will be delivered in Illinois monday morning.
Sunday 9th September:
We're currently somewhere in Kentucky, making our way towards Illinois. This morning was fun, I was watching the deer, there were 3 little ones, not much bigger than a puppy, standing right beside the highway while semi's sped on by them. they didn't freak out or run away, it was amazing. I'm really looking forward to stopping tonight so I can have a shower and catch an early night. Virginia and west virginia are really beautiful, especially first thing in the morning while the sun is coming up over the mountains, and there's a hazy mist covering everything.
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
More of those photos I promised you....
This was taken early Saturday morning during the meteor shower, because my camera wasn't quite able to capture the beginning of the sunrise (the light area you can see was a brilliant blue and orange). Through the wonderful technology that is computer software I was able to get this out of it - and a big surprise when I saw that it captured a meteor!
This was an amusing sight, going down the 65mph interstate!
One of the ways they transport new or dead trucks around the states! I've seen as many as 5 trucks attached to a front truck, pulling them down the interstate.
Wisconsin farm has a pumpkin structure on their silo!?!
Because you've seen cows on a milk tanker trailer before right?
This was an amusing sight, going down the 65mph interstate!
One of the ways they transport new or dead trucks around the states! I've seen as many as 5 trucks attached to a front truck, pulling them down the interstate.
Wisconsin farm has a pumpkin structure on their silo!?!
Because you've seen cows on a milk tanker trailer before right?
photos... round 3
This is part one of the photo post for this time......
Morning mist over a river in either South Carolina or Tennessee (I don't remember exactly which it was)
Tennessee has a pyramid!
Here's a few pics of a line of trucks going through the Smokey Mountains in Tennessee.
Morning mist over a river in either South Carolina or Tennessee (I don't remember exactly which it was)
Tennessee has a pyramid!
Here's a few pics of a line of trucks going through the Smokey Mountains in Tennessee.
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