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
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