Wednesday 20th February:
Its hard to believe February is almost over! this year is flying by way too quickly. Anyways here's a quick update of whats been going on...
We had a really lovely time at the house. Sunday we took a friend out shopping before we went to the yard to take our load to be delivered. Had a pretty good time despite an extremely rude sales person at a computer store. But its all good because we wont be shopping their anymore.
Once at the yard we had a few troubles, mostly snow related. It had been snowing all day before we got there and the plows had only just started plowing the yard. We ended up getting stuck the first time in an area that had been plowed already! 10 minutes later and the tractor giving us a nudge we got free and had to deal with getting our trailer out of the wash bay. It was an odd situation, turns out we were hauling soda so it couldn't be left outside in the extreme cold or the cans would explode (and that, while slightly amusing would be really really bad). Unfortunately they didn't think to plow behind the buildings where the wash bays are...and you guessed it folks we got stuck again. Thankfully though we got out of there, and to our destination on time YAY.
The next day (Monday) we picked up our current load. It's heading to Arizona where i'm hoping its at least warmer than Wisconsin has been. We're due there tomorrow which we'll be able to make. Originally it wasn't due until the 22nd but we've been having a good run so they've changed our delivery so we can pick up a day earlier than anticipated.
At this stage our next home time should be about March 5th so if anyone wants to call, that would be a good time to do it.
Thursday 21st February:
So today, yeah it was one of those days that makes me wish I hadn't gotten out of bed hehe. Had a few things go slightly off plan but its now the end of the day, and we're sitting here relaxing watching Stargate Atlantis (season 2) on DVD.
I think the craziest part of the day was when we stalled in the driveway of a customer. Doesn't sound like a big deal right? wrong. When you're in an automatic truck, and reversing and your engine stalls while you were trying to slide the wheels to the back of the trailer - with a pin covered in ice from a snow storm we went through...its not good. So they ended up having to call out a road repair guy to putt air in the tanks so it would shift to neutral so we could start. Oh well, the company has to pay for it - not us. Its a damn good thing there were two lanes to get into the customer so we weren't entirely blocking up their driveway.
Turns out that our reload was out of the same place but its not ready until the morning. Its destination? Portland Oregon AND Kent Washington. We should be pretty alright on time to get there so thats a relief. Pat said we're going to end up going through the Mojave Desert which i'm kinda excited about.
Saturday 22nd February:
So yesterday we arrived at our destination really early in the day at our destination, only to find out that our power supply for the laptop had gone to the big computer store in the sky. Yup it was dead really dead. So while we had high speed internet we had limited battery supply and no stores that sold new power supply things. So we did a lot of reading, and I had a mid afternoon nap due to a headache i'd developed. All in all not a bad day.
Oh fyi the Mojave desert was really awesome to see - and it was raining! not something I really expected to see. I got a couple of photos during the break in the rain so i'll upload those tonight if I get the chance.
As you can guess by the fact that i'm blogging and using the computer, we got a new power supply. We were cruising down Highway 99 here in California when we saw a mall off to the side of the road with a big empty parking lot, and the store we knew would sell the power supply box (not as easy to get as you'd imagine). Anyways by the time we saw it we were past the exit so we had to turn around and go back to it. Thankfully they had them in stock so we got it YAY.
well i'm going to post this up so you can will know what we've been up to.
take care guys! xoxox
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