Back in the truck

Tuesday 11th December:
We're back in the truck and have our first assigned load for this trip out. We've got 3 pick ups and 4 deliveries going to North Carolina/ South Carolina area.

Thank you for all the wonderful birthday wishes and pressies! We had a wonderful day and a very relaxing weekend yay. We went to the movies on saturday to see "The Golden Compass" which was awesome in case you're wondering. A couple of friends came over and we had bbq ribs, birthday cake and lots of good food. Ended up watching movies, playing a little world of warcraft with our friends and lots of good conversation.

Our next home time will be scheduled for around new years eve, but we'll let you guys know a definate date if anyone wants to call and catch up with us.

At the moment, we're sitting at the terminal waiting for our trailer to come out of the truckwash, too bad they didn't our truck in there with it - its looking a little grubby, oh well maybe they'll do it next time we're here.

One of the house mates taught me how to make this really yummy chanukah food called "Latke's" they're like potato fritters/hash browns. It was a lot of fun, she even let me make the batch of them one night. I really enjoyed it because as we were making them she was sharing stories from chanukah celebrations with her family when she was younger and telling me about various traditions that her family did.


Thursday 13th December:
I was meaning to post Tuesday's entry right away but once we finally got our trailer and left the yard it was chaotic at best, the first place we had to pick up from had machine breakdowns so there was a back up of about 6 trucks before us so we had a long wait. Then we made it to the second place (there was no hope for the 3rd because they'd already closed up), only to find out they had a back up as well - we waited 2 hours there for 1 roll of paper to be loaded on. Because of bad weather we ended up parking in wisconsin that night, and got told that we could pick the last part up wednesday morning before we left...so we did and eventually got on our way.

Last night we drove until late, had to run inside and have a quick dinner before bed, we were up again early this morning, but have had to stop due to bad weather/slick roads and hubby being tired so he's having a quick nap before we continue on our way.

To top it all off? i'm coming down with a cold/flu or something. My entire body is aching, i'm sniffly, have a really sore throat (i think i've got an inflamed tonsil or gland cos one side of my throat is a bit more sore than the other). It sucks but i'll get through it. I'm taking vitamins, using anti-bacterial gel on my hands whenever i go anywhere, drinking plenty of water and trying to sleep as much as i can.

In other odd news, we saw a total of 3 semi's in ditches due to bad weather, and people not being careful. tsk tsk you'd think people would learn by now huh?

Took some photos in wisconsin on tuesday/wednesday morning so i'll upload those if i get a chance tonight. Its looking like a busy night because we're a few hours behind and we've got to try to deliver at least one part of the four tonight.

Right now though, we're back on the road. The roads are a lot better.

....about 4 hours later. Well, we just got caught in traffic for about an hour due to a car accident in the mountains in Tennessee. I don't think anyone was killed thank goodness, but people were taken away in ambulances. We happened upon it about 5 minutes after it happened, the cops hadn't even arrived on scene when we caught up with the back up. I hope everyone is okay. Turns out that a pick up truck pulling a camper van was going too fast, and tipped. its a really good thing there was a guardrail there.

We called the dispatcher and told her what was going on and that we've had a lot of issues this trip, we've got to deliver to 4 places, we might get to one of them tonight, might. I'm not stressing about it though, we'll get there when we get there.

I'm gonna go post this while I have a connection, take care guys...will update again soon. luv to you all xoxoxox

Arrived in Cali and other updates leading to it.

Thursday 15th November:
We're back in the truck today, and we're heading to California! (again). This time its to a town near Sacramento which isn't too bad. I'm hoping its a bit warmer over there than it is here at the moment. There has been a few snow flurries but nothing overly consistent.

At this very moment we're sitting at the customer's waiting to be loaded. Its a small company so it could take awhile. Thats okay though I'm getting feeling back in my fingers so I'll probably make the bed and finish organising everything into its place for the trip ahead.

We had a really nice home time, though I'm a little sad that its over. As I mentioned before, the next time we'll be at home will be for our birthdays (we'll arrive on the 6th, our birthday's are on the 8th in case anyone wants to call us).

Saturday 17th November:
Not much to report about yesterday really, was a full on day driving and we made it to our destination safe and sound. Even managed to have a good dinner (grilled chicken burger with cheese..and fries of course). Went to bed about 8pm because I was really tired.

We found out yesterday what our reload is! its going from california back to wisconsin, in fact its going to a town about 5 minutes down the road from the house! how groovy is that.

Saw a shooting star this morning that was really cool, didn't get a chance to get a photo of it though, oh well.

The sun is coming up while I'm typing this, its so beautiful.

We're hopefully having dinner with Mat tonight, he doesn't live too far from where we're parking for the night so hopefully he isn't busy. It was his birthday yesterday so he might not be feeling well enough to leave the house.


Sunday 18th November:
Had dinner with Mat last night, was fun. Nice to catch up with him again though he looked a little under the weather after his birthday party celebrations the night (or should I say that morning). Got to spend about an hour with him over dinner chatting about things.

We made it California safe and sound, we're delivering in the morning and heading off to get our next load (or at least part of it) picked up.

I did get some beautiful shots today and i'll upload them tomorrow since its getting late here. According to our time its 9:45pm, but local time its only 7:45pm so you can imagine how much fun it is trying to work off of two time zones. We had a later dinner by our schedule but to everyone else around us it was a late lunch/early dinner.

Sorry this is yet another short entry i'm feeling pretty tired right now and just want to get some sleep.