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.
Friday, October 26, 2007
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
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