3 rolled into 1 update

Monday 14th January:
Yesterday was pretty cruisy, spend the day in Shreveport, Louisiana reading and waiting for this morning when we could deliver our load.

Got up early this morning, delivered our load. Played musical loads for a couple of hours until we finally got settled on one we could deliver yay. Went and picked it up and started heading towards where its delivering - El Paso, Texas. Got until Wednesday to get that delivered and then we'll be heading back towards the house (hopefully) for our home time on the 19th.

Not feeling particularly good tonight, the food was good.. i think. I got to try a dish called "pulled bbq pork" which was bits of pork strips fried, the best thing - the batter tasted just like batter they use on hot dogs and fish in new zealand. It was fabulous.



Tuesday 15th January:
Driving through the "countryside" in texas, the small towns and open fields are all around at the moment.

I didn't get a chance to tell you guys about what we saw in Louisiana the other day. Driving down the interstate in rural area's its not unusual to see crop spraying going on. There's signs all over warning about low flying planes and to be careful, keep an eye out for them. Well we were watching a little yellow plane flying around, circling getting ready to line up to spray a field, when he gets really really low to the ground and had the nerve to fly right between two trucks! It shocked the heck out of me, but I was glad we weren't one of the trucks he did that to. He could've been a little higher up and still got the field he was aiming for but he just wanted to show off I guess. I think I got a photo of the plane, and if it turned out okay i'll post it when I do my next photo post.

Here's an interesting fact about rural Texas: they like driving pickup trucks. Seriously! they're all over out here. I think in a period of about 20 minutes we saw only 2 or 3 vehicles that weren't pickup's. Its pretty awesome. The terrain around here, and the amount of farms, oil fields and such.



Wednesday 16th January:
Bit of an early morning this morning. We decided to head over to the customer, waited 2 hours before they got us in a door to unload, and we've just arrived at the second place to unload.

We've seen so much on our travels the past couple of days. We drove through this cute little town called "Stanton" which has a big sign up saying "Welcome to stanton, home to 3000 good folks and a few old sore heads". Makes me giggle every time.

The other 2 really odd things happening involve the border patrol by El Paso (since its right near the border with mexico they are kinda like an extra police force. Anyways on our way to El Paso there was obviously something going because they had about 10 patrol cars driving along the side of the interstate (in the shrub area off to the side, searching for something, as well as a helicopter! I've no idea what was going on though.

Lastly, today as we were approaching the check point (where they do searches and make sure you're not smuggling illegals into the country, they had cops about 10 miles down the road telling people to get into the right lane and slow down. Everyone was a little confused until we got up a little closer and realised there had been a bad crash involving a semi (which was laying on its side in the middle and across one lane either direction, as well as 3 cars that had damage. We saw ambulances and such go past, and a hazmat crew heading that way so my guess is that diesel fuel had leaked, but that no one was killed. There was so many cars from the local police, border patrol, state troopers, fire, ambulance workers... just to name a few. I'm glad everyone was okay.

As for us, we have an early delivery tomorrow so its an early night for us and a 3am start.

Its raining....its pouring

Friday 11th January:
Had a wonderful dinner last night and got a good night's sleep so everything is going wonderful today. Got to our delivery place with no hassle and it seems that what damage was caused by the storm last night isn't hindering traffic. Its beautiful and sunny out today, hard to believe how rough things were last night.

Got our weekend load just a few minutes ago, we're heading to Texas which is very cool, I like Texas (though i'm not too fond of traffic in the dallas/ft worth area its two huge cities right next to each other and it makes for really long back ups if there's an accident). Its about a 600 mile run so we'll have a nice leisurely trip over there from Alabama where we're currently at.


Saturday 12th January:
We made it to Louisiana tonight before we decided to stop. We're only about 3 hours from where we need to be on monday so its all good, we can have a relaxing day tomorrow.

It stormed a little today but it was after we'd parked up, so we ran inside and had an early dinner just incase it decided to get worse but it didn't. It rained for awhile, and I think it might actually be down to a light drizzle by now.

I've got a few photos I took the other day to post but I'll try uploading them tomorrow. As for now I'm playing around with a few settings on th blog because it seems people have been having issues trying to comment. I hope I can get it sorted :P because I love hearing from you guys. For some reason it doesn't email you to tell you i've responded, but keep checking back here, I might've!

If you notice a bunch of older posts turning it its because for some reason it saved them as drafts instead of posting them. Bah, silly blog.

A rare moment of relaxation...

Sunday 16th December:
The load we're currently on has brought us to Texas, its meant to be delivered tomorrow morning.

Yesterday was pretty boring, got up early - picked up our load. Headed west across, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and most of Mississippi :) Which just left the rest of Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas today. Had some minor truck issues yesterday, but it wasn't anything too serious just the heating/ac unit had a little fit, but it thawed and everything is fine now. We'll talk to the dispatcher on Monday about it, but since it fixed itself we shouldn't need to head to a yard to get it looked at.

Later that day....
Arrived at our destination, yay. Caught up with some emailing and photo stuff i've been meaning to. I've uploaded some shots i took in Wisconsin to the computer (snowy type ones), so i'll upload them when I upload this. Its really nice to have days like this, we start early and get to our destination with time to relax and not stress about traffic, time, miles, or idiots. I know it'll be back to normal, rushing around and being busy tomorrow (especially if the company decides we should have the heating/ac unit looked at before we head up north towards the snow and cold weather) but thats okay. I'm enjoying this afternoon/this evening while it lasts.