On The Road to Georgia

Friday 17th August:
Well we're back on the road.. this time our destination is Georgia!

Our AC is definately fixed which is wonderful news (at least until winter). When we got in the truck there was a note stuck to the window that our heater doesn't work because of how they fixed it, BUT they had ordered the part to fix the whole thing so we'll be back in for that about the 18th august.

well this evening has been interesting. we stopped at Beloit (the area on the border of Illinois and Wisconsin). When we went in for dinner we sat down and waited for the waitress, she wandered over but happened to have too many things in her I hand because when she sat our cutlery down one set slipped and hit me (at this point i say to her through giggles "at least it wasn't a steak knife") the poor lady felt so bad about it she didn't charge us for our drinks (despite telling her numerous times that it was okay, accidents happen). She looked absolutely horrified at her slip, i felt bad for her. So we start eating our meal and we just happened to look up, and standing by the salad bar was our landlord! (who happens to be a truck driver too, as well as having a son who is a truck driver). We chatted with him for awhile, then when we were leaving we stopped by his table to say bye, he asked to see our ticket for dinner took it up to the counter and paid for it with his! he had gotten a bunch of vouchers for free food, and seeing as he doesn't use them up fast enough before they expire he wanted to shout us. He's such a nice guy - even before buying us dinner i knew that about him. When he's at home he runs a farm, mows our lawn, does repairs at his own house, his daughters and ours if needed. He's the complete opposite of our last landlord.

Saturday 18th August:
wow, I've just seen the most amazing thing I've seen to date in America.... thousands of motorbikes going down I65 in Indiana - the occasion? Toys for tots!!! they had to shut the interstate (4 lanes wide) down so it was just the bikes who also had a police escort. We had the CB on and heard talk of a "big" group of bikes heading our way, so i thought maybe 30-40 bikes tops..... 11 miles later, the stream of bikes was still coming (we had to take an exit ramp at that point). It was so amazing, to see people coming together like that, in such huge numbers was.... ii can't really describe it in words. I was a tad annoyed that people on the CB were getting angry and bitching about the delay, and yeah i do understand how much it sucks to be delayed when you've got a delivery deadline hanging over your head, but this only happens 1 day a year, thousands of people come from all different parts of the country to donate toys and time to underprivileged children.

Monday 20th August:
Made it to Georgia, and survived morning rush hour on the interstate (yay us). The last part of our load isn't being delivered until tonight so we're going to have a nice relaxing drive over there and see if they'll take it a bit early. Our Internet connection has been acting up since Saturday which sucks but Pat is on the phone to them now and hopefully it'll get sorted soon.

I'm sure you guys have heard that there's a hurricane category 4 heading towards the US, normally they hit Florida which is kinda near where we are at the moment, but thankfully for us its heading towards Texas/gulf of Mexico so we wont be in its way. It sucks for the people over that way who are in the path of it though.

I'm not sure if I mentioned this or not, but when we went home, I had "Heavenly Creatures" delivered on DVD (yep the kiwi movie about the girls who murdered one of their mothers in Victoria park, Christchurch). I haven't seen it in years but it was just as good as I remembered it. The housemates didn't get to see it because we were all pretty busy so hopefully next time we're in for home time we'll be able to sit down and watch it (I think Hobbit, Shana and Marj would all like it).

yay Internet is back on, so I'm going to post this up for you guys to read.