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
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