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
Monday, November 26, 2007
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
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