Saturday 8th March:
Last night was awesome. We kidnapped a friend and took her to dinner and a movie. We were going to go to our favourite restaurant, but it was full, so we tried another one - that was full too. In the end we got pizza and came back to the house and chatted until it was time to go see the movie ("Jumpers"). It was pretty good, ended kinda abruptly though which seems like they're planning a sequel but we'll just have to wait and see.
Other than that things have been pretty routine around here, cleaning, watching a little tv, playing a little world of warcraft, and spending time with house mates.
Its damn cold outside at the moment. Last night when we came home from the movies it was negative 11 degrees F outside (not sure if that included the wind chill or not). can we say brrr? Not sure what it is outside at the moment, since its only 10am but the driveway is looking slick which isn't going to be too fun when I go out to get the mail. ooh I just checked and its about negative 10 degrees f (which is negative 23 degrees C). According to the weather site its going to warm up...a little by the end of the day, oh and there's meant to be snow! just what Wisconsin is lacking (please note: heavy use of sarcasm, we have about 2-3 feet of snow on the ground already at the moment).
Well I'd better go post this, and start having a tidy up in the lounge and computer room before people start waking up :) Hope everyone has a great day!
Showing posts with label wisconsin. Show all posts
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Sunday, March 9, 2008
Thursday, February 28, 2008
update time...
Tuesday 26th February:
Goooood morning all,
I'm feeling absolutely wonderful this morning - I got a full night's sleep and didn't even wake up during the night like I normally do YAY. Although apparently I had a conversation with Patrick and I seemed coheriant. He asked me to turn on the lights and he said I responded with something like "okay" and then nothing lol. Oh well. Then it turns out he accidently set the alarm for 7:30pm instead of 7:30am heh but we woke up a little after 7am anyway by a message on the com system for the truck.
Yesterday wasn't too bad. We got to where we had to deliver on time, and the roads weren't bad - just heavy traffic. Once we got out of there we drove to Tacoma to the truck stop. Unfortunately the truckstop is entirely too small, and you need at least 2 other drivers to help you back into a spot - IF you're lucky enough to find an empty spot. Thankfully we got one, and there were a couple of guys helping us get in there okay since its small and akward at the the best of times, there was a lot of traffic trying to get in and out. So we had a nice relaxing afternoon there, and I ended up going to bed about 7:30pm.
Not sure where our next destination is, we've just finished unloading and have to sit and wait. YAY.
Wednesday 27th February:
They ended up having us run around a little bit yesterday and by the time we got done the truck stop was full, and the nearest place to park wanted $20 for 24 hours (which is really damn expensive). So we stopped and grabbed food, and parked at the rest area for the evening (by the time we got there there was only a few parking spots left as it was). What time was it locally? only 3:30pm. Washington definately needs more truck stops!!!
About 8am (our time) we got our load info and had to return to the place we were yesterday to drop our trailer, then go to the other place we were yesterday and pick up our load. Its going to..drum roll please.... Wisconsin! YAY. Unfortunately we'll be there a few days too early for our home time but that just means they'll run us around illinois and wisconsin for a wee bit.
I should go and post this, sorry about my lack of updates lately. Things have been somewhat routine, basic day to day stuff...driving driving and sitting waiting for reloads. Its all good though.
An update on our moving to Aussie... We're waiting on our tax cheque which shouldn't be too far away. After that we'll book our tickets for 2 weeks in advance and start getting rid of our things here. Woohooo for fitting everything I have in a suitcase! Not a problem though because we can sell things like dvd's/gaming consoles, games for our Nintendo's etc.
All righty gotta run,
love you guys xoxox
Goooood morning all,
I'm feeling absolutely wonderful this morning - I got a full night's sleep and didn't even wake up during the night like I normally do YAY. Although apparently I had a conversation with Patrick and I seemed coheriant. He asked me to turn on the lights and he said I responded with something like "okay" and then nothing lol. Oh well. Then it turns out he accidently set the alarm for 7:30pm instead of 7:30am heh but we woke up a little after 7am anyway by a message on the com system for the truck.
Yesterday wasn't too bad. We got to where we had to deliver on time, and the roads weren't bad - just heavy traffic. Once we got out of there we drove to Tacoma to the truck stop. Unfortunately the truckstop is entirely too small, and you need at least 2 other drivers to help you back into a spot - IF you're lucky enough to find an empty spot. Thankfully we got one, and there were a couple of guys helping us get in there okay since its small and akward at the the best of times, there was a lot of traffic trying to get in and out. So we had a nice relaxing afternoon there, and I ended up going to bed about 7:30pm.
Not sure where our next destination is, we've just finished unloading and have to sit and wait. YAY.
Wednesday 27th February:
They ended up having us run around a little bit yesterday and by the time we got done the truck stop was full, and the nearest place to park wanted $20 for 24 hours (which is really damn expensive). So we stopped and grabbed food, and parked at the rest area for the evening (by the time we got there there was only a few parking spots left as it was). What time was it locally? only 3:30pm. Washington definately needs more truck stops!!!
About 8am (our time) we got our load info and had to return to the place we were yesterday to drop our trailer, then go to the other place we were yesterday and pick up our load. Its going to..drum roll please.... Wisconsin! YAY. Unfortunately we'll be there a few days too early for our home time but that just means they'll run us around illinois and wisconsin for a wee bit.
I should go and post this, sorry about my lack of updates lately. Things have been somewhat routine, basic day to day stuff...driving driving and sitting waiting for reloads. Its all good though.
An update on our moving to Aussie... We're waiting on our tax cheque which shouldn't be too far away. After that we'll book our tickets for 2 weeks in advance and start getting rid of our things here. Woohooo for fitting everything I have in a suitcase! Not a problem though because we can sell things like dvd's/gaming consoles, games for our Nintendo's etc.
All righty gotta run,
love you guys xoxox
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Heading Towards Wisconsin
Not a lot happened yesterday. We started our day about 1:30am, and made it to our customer on time. They held us up for 5 hours unloading, not to mention left a heck of a mess in our trailer. For what the company paid his company you'd think he'd at least pick up the smashed pallet that we found in there. So after that fun, we had to stop at a truck stop and clean out the pallet bits and make our way to the pick up. Thankfully they didn't take long to load us.
Spent the night at a pretty good truck stop that had a seafood/steakhouse woohoo! dinner was pretty darn good If I do say so myself. I ended up having a grilled chicken sandwich, which had a lemon pepper marinade and it came with steak fries (the big thick fries).
Today we delivered the first part of the load, turns out theres not meant to be any receiving on saturday at the plant, and the only reason there was someone there today was because the warehouse is really full and they need someone there to feed the machines and make room. He wasn't entirely pleased but there wasn't much we could do about it.
The next part is delivering to Wisconsin on Monday YAY which means they'll give us a small run to Illinois or around Wisconsin to keep us busy until our home time on Wednesday! I'm really looking forward to it thats for sure. Not just because we're filing taxes but because we definately deserve a relaxing break from the road after the past couple of weeks.
Tonight we're going to stop a bit early so we can have showers, relax and have an early night. I'm really looking forward to it.
Anyways I'll write again tomorrow or the next day :)
take care guys xoxox
Spent the night at a pretty good truck stop that had a seafood/steakhouse woohoo! dinner was pretty darn good If I do say so myself. I ended up having a grilled chicken sandwich, which had a lemon pepper marinade and it came with steak fries (the big thick fries).
Today we delivered the first part of the load, turns out theres not meant to be any receiving on saturday at the plant, and the only reason there was someone there today was because the warehouse is really full and they need someone there to feed the machines and make room. He wasn't entirely pleased but there wasn't much we could do about it.
The next part is delivering to Wisconsin on Monday YAY which means they'll give us a small run to Illinois or around Wisconsin to keep us busy until our home time on Wednesday! I'm really looking forward to it thats for sure. Not just because we're filing taxes but because we definately deserve a relaxing break from the road after the past couple of weeks.
Tonight we're going to stop a bit early so we can have showers, relax and have an early night. I'm really looking forward to it.
Anyways I'll write again tomorrow or the next day :)
take care guys xoxox
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Staying in for a couple of weeks....
Thursday 24th January:
I decided to take a break from being on the road for a couple of weeks, so I stayed behind at the house. Patrick left for the yard this morning, only to find out when he got there that there was something wrong with the truck that they had to put it back in for (i believe it had something to do with a hole in oil pan?), so he got recruited to go and pick up some leased trucks for the company with some other drivers. He's got his load which is pretty short so he'll pick it up early in the morning and deliver it, the customer its going to is only 3hrs away from the yard so thats cool.
Friday 25th January:
Pat called this morning, he was in Minnesota delivering then he had to pick up and bring a load back to Wisconsin. Fingers crossed they'll get him a load tomorrow rather than making him sit all weekend.
Things at the house are going pretty good despite the heat issue, as in our furnace is acting up, if it keep it up we'll have to call someone on Monday and get them to have a look. I'm sitting here enjoying subway for dinner (yum). Its starting to snow, so the roads are a little slick. We'll be staying in tonight and having a nice quiet evening.
I decided to take a break from being on the road for a couple of weeks, so I stayed behind at the house. Patrick left for the yard this morning, only to find out when he got there that there was something wrong with the truck that they had to put it back in for (i believe it had something to do with a hole in oil pan?), so he got recruited to go and pick up some leased trucks for the company with some other drivers. He's got his load which is pretty short so he'll pick it up early in the morning and deliver it, the customer its going to is only 3hrs away from the yard so thats cool.
Friday 25th January:
Pat called this morning, he was in Minnesota delivering then he had to pick up and bring a load back to Wisconsin. Fingers crossed they'll get him a load tomorrow rather than making him sit all weekend.
Things at the house are going pretty good despite the heat issue, as in our furnace is acting up, if it keep it up we'll have to call someone on Monday and get them to have a look. I'm sitting here enjoying subway for dinner (yum). Its starting to snow, so the roads are a little slick. We'll be staying in tonight and having a nice quiet evening.
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Quick Update
Sunday 6th January:
At the moment we're sitting in Tennessee, only about half an hour from the state line with North Carolina where we're delivering tomorrow (though its not meant to be delivered until the 8th hehe, we're a day ahead of ourselves).
Had a pretty good day today, we ran hard to get up here because we heard the roads were a bit rough, so we wanted to have that little extra room to take it slow, but it was clear all the way up here.
Spent the evening reading and watching a little Stargate Atlantis.
Monday 7th January:
Delivered about 10am this morning and got our reload which is taking us back up to Wisconsin (but no home time - yet). We're spending the night just inside the Kentucky/Tennessee state line and we'll be leaving out of here early in the morning to get a full day of driving in.
Pretty uneventful day today really, we're just sitting here reading. Pat's reading "A dirty Job" by Christopher Moore, and i'm reading "Fluke, or I know why the winged whale sings" also by Christopher Moore. Had Hardee's for dinner tonight, yum. I actually prefer that to mcdonalds over here in america, I haven't had the greatest experiences with mcd's here.
well i'm about to head to bed, i've had a bit of a headache on and off today so hopefully some ibuprofen (panadol) and a good night's sleep will help get rid of it.
At the moment we're sitting in Tennessee, only about half an hour from the state line with North Carolina where we're delivering tomorrow (though its not meant to be delivered until the 8th hehe, we're a day ahead of ourselves).
Had a pretty good day today, we ran hard to get up here because we heard the roads were a bit rough, so we wanted to have that little extra room to take it slow, but it was clear all the way up here.
Spent the evening reading and watching a little Stargate Atlantis.
Monday 7th January:
Delivered about 10am this morning and got our reload which is taking us back up to Wisconsin (but no home time - yet). We're spending the night just inside the Kentucky/Tennessee state line and we'll be leaving out of here early in the morning to get a full day of driving in.
Pretty uneventful day today really, we're just sitting here reading. Pat's reading "A dirty Job" by Christopher Moore, and i'm reading "Fluke, or I know why the winged whale sings" also by Christopher Moore. Had Hardee's for dinner tonight, yum. I actually prefer that to mcdonalds over here in america, I haven't had the greatest experiences with mcd's here.
well i'm about to head to bed, i've had a bit of a headache on and off today so hopefully some ibuprofen (panadol) and a good night's sleep will help get rid of it.
Monday, December 31, 2007
We're almost home
Well... she's been a busy few days. We had our little run around Texas, then they gave us take a little run leaving us sitting yesterday morning unsure about whether we'll be back in Wisconsin for our home time. Its not really their fault, freight has been slowing down a bit lately (with fuel costs rising). Thankfully though they found us a load and we are on our way back there. In fact we're sitting just on the state line between Wisconsin and Illinois waiting to deliver to 3 places tomorrow, then we'll see how things go.
I cannot believe how quickly this year has flown by, we've seen so much while on the road this year this amazing and I'm extremely thankful for being able to experience it.
I've been trying to think of good new years resolutions but so far i've come up with only a couple:
~ Take more photos/Improve my photography skills
~ Write more, both in my blog and other forms of writing
~ Read more, and try new genres
so those are just a few, they rest are pretty much general things that people resolve to do in the new year but rarely stick too - oh well :) i'll give them a shot all the same.
Anyone else want to share new years resolutions? go on.. you know you want to :)
Take care guys
Love to you all xoxoxox
I cannot believe how quickly this year has flown by, we've seen so much while on the road this year this amazing and I'm extremely thankful for being able to experience it.
I've been trying to think of good new years resolutions but so far i've come up with only a couple:
~ Take more photos/Improve my photography skills
~ Write more, both in my blog and other forms of writing
~ Read more, and try new genres
so those are just a few, they rest are pretty much general things that people resolve to do in the new year but rarely stick too - oh well :) i'll give them a shot all the same.
Anyone else want to share new years resolutions? go on.. you know you want to :)
Take care guys
Love to you all xoxoxox
Saturday, December 22, 2007
the photos..finally!
Happy Birthday to us! hehe one of the first photos I took with my new camera. Made for us by Marj (thank you!!!!!!!) it was delicious! They decided to put "49" on the cake, as they added both Pat and my ages together rather than trying for 24 and 25 candles hehe. Personally i think this was a lot less of a fire hazard and meant we got to eat yummy cake.
Bottom Photo: our yummy banana pudding.
Snowy Bridge in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. December 2007
Stevens Point, Wisconsin. December 2007
Sunday, December 2, 2007
Update time from Missouri
Tuesday 27th November:
Today is a pretty huge day over here in America. The state of Maryland was hosting an international peace talk summit between a number of middle eastern countries. Take a wild guess what state Patrick and I had to go through today? Boy was security tight, and we only just barely entered the state before catching a different interstate that took us back out!They ran both us through every list possible, including my maiden name/married name in the immigration lists. Patrick was the one inside dealing with the cops, and apparently some guy in there who was a truck driver probably got arrested - he had a suspended license from new york (3 states over) due to unpaid parking tickets, and he was being really belligerent to the officers who were just trying to do their job.
Besides that fun and games things went really well, we delivered in West Virginia and we're now in Virginia picking up our next load, which is going to Illinois. Shouldn't take us more than a day to get up there, if we leave tomorrow about 5am. Dinner tonight will probably be a combination of peanut butter sandwiches or ham sandwiches (thank goodness we got the cooler a few months ago) and rice cakes. Its all good though, we've got plenty to eat in the truck.
I wont be able to post this until we get back to "civilisation" in other words somewhere that has an internet signal.
Only 9 days until we get back to the house yay. I have word that the gift Patrick got me for my Birthday/Yule has arrived at the house! i'm so excited, although I have to confess, I do know what it is because I gave him the idea for it and did the research for a good price on it. What is it? a digital camera! my currently one has been dying a sporadic death for awhile now, and Patrick knows how much I love photography so he was happy to get me one.
Saturday 1st December:
Whoops, I'm about a week behind on all this blog stuff and replying to emails...sorry!
Things are going well. We've been to Illinois, Wisconsin and we're now on our way to Arkansas where we are set to deliver tomorrow morning. Unfortunately it meant we hit part of the snow and ice storm heading its way towards Wisconsin, but it only lasted for 30 minutes or so and then we were clear of it. The area we're parking up in tonight will have slightly gusty weather but most of that isn't set to hit until tonight, after we're parked. So no need to worry about it.
I'm hoping that our destination tonight will have high speed internet so I can finally get those photos uploaded here.
The one thing I realised today is that its amazing how many idiots there are on the road in such a short space like say over 20 minutes. There were 3 major accidents and 4 minor along the same stretch of road where we encountered the ice storm. As far as I know everyone survived, but boy were the police and ambulances busy. You'd think that after seeing the state of say the SUV that had rolled over that they'd slow down and stop changing lanes like nutters but no, pat happened to look in his rear vision mirror and saw a guy race out into the left lane and spin around, landing in the grassy median facing the opposite way of traffic (yep he was fine and was damn lucky he didn't end up skidding across the median into the traffic on the other side).
Only a few more days until we get back to the house yay, got a lot of stuff to do and only a few days to do it in but its all good, especially since its our birthdays next Saturday *insert happy dance here*.
A few hours later...
Its now about 6pm here, and we've been parked at our destination for a little over 3 hours which was nice. Got to spend a bit of time reading before dinner. Just got back from dinner actually, and I'm about to post this. Unfortunately our connection is really slow here, so I'll try tomorrow for posting those photos - I promise I haven't forgotten about it. The connection here is worse than dial up, which can be slow on the best of days, this connection has trouble signing into emails! thats how slow it is. Oh well, its only until early tomorrow morning when we head off to our delivery destination.
Today is a pretty huge day over here in America. The state of Maryland was hosting an international peace talk summit between a number of middle eastern countries. Take a wild guess what state Patrick and I had to go through today? Boy was security tight, and we only just barely entered the state before catching a different interstate that took us back out!They ran both us through every list possible, including my maiden name/married name in the immigration lists. Patrick was the one inside dealing with the cops, and apparently some guy in there who was a truck driver probably got arrested - he had a suspended license from new york (3 states over) due to unpaid parking tickets, and he was being really belligerent to the officers who were just trying to do their job.
Besides that fun and games things went really well, we delivered in West Virginia and we're now in Virginia picking up our next load, which is going to Illinois. Shouldn't take us more than a day to get up there, if we leave tomorrow about 5am. Dinner tonight will probably be a combination of peanut butter sandwiches or ham sandwiches (thank goodness we got the cooler a few months ago) and rice cakes. Its all good though, we've got plenty to eat in the truck.
I wont be able to post this until we get back to "civilisation" in other words somewhere that has an internet signal.
Only 9 days until we get back to the house yay. I have word that the gift Patrick got me for my Birthday/Yule has arrived at the house! i'm so excited, although I have to confess, I do know what it is because I gave him the idea for it and did the research for a good price on it. What is it? a digital camera! my currently one has been dying a sporadic death for awhile now, and Patrick knows how much I love photography so he was happy to get me one.
Saturday 1st December:
Whoops, I'm about a week behind on all this blog stuff and replying to emails...sorry!
Things are going well. We've been to Illinois, Wisconsin and we're now on our way to Arkansas where we are set to deliver tomorrow morning. Unfortunately it meant we hit part of the snow and ice storm heading its way towards Wisconsin, but it only lasted for 30 minutes or so and then we were clear of it. The area we're parking up in tonight will have slightly gusty weather but most of that isn't set to hit until tonight, after we're parked. So no need to worry about it.
I'm hoping that our destination tonight will have high speed internet so I can finally get those photos uploaded here.
The one thing I realised today is that its amazing how many idiots there are on the road in such a short space like say over 20 minutes. There were 3 major accidents and 4 minor along the same stretch of road where we encountered the ice storm. As far as I know everyone survived, but boy were the police and ambulances busy. You'd think that after seeing the state of say the SUV that had rolled over that they'd slow down and stop changing lanes like nutters but no, pat happened to look in his rear vision mirror and saw a guy race out into the left lane and spin around, landing in the grassy median facing the opposite way of traffic (yep he was fine and was damn lucky he didn't end up skidding across the median into the traffic on the other side).
Only a few more days until we get back to the house yay, got a lot of stuff to do and only a few days to do it in but its all good, especially since its our birthdays next Saturday *insert happy dance here*.
A few hours later...
Its now about 6pm here, and we've been parked at our destination for a little over 3 hours which was nice. Got to spend a bit of time reading before dinner. Just got back from dinner actually, and I'm about to post this. Unfortunately our connection is really slow here, so I'll try tomorrow for posting those photos - I promise I haven't forgotten about it. The connection here is worse than dial up, which can be slow on the best of days, this connection has trouble signing into emails! thats how slow it is. Oh well, its only until early tomorrow morning when we head off to our delivery destination.
Monday, November 26, 2007
Thursday 22nd November:
We're on our way back to Wisconsin - slowly I might add.Things are going pretty good though. I survived the mountains and i'm not as nervous about them as I used to be so thats good.
We passed through area's with snow today!!! Mountain area's in Wyoming and Nebraska have some snow, and yes i did get photos. Its a sure sign that winter is almost here and for it to have arrived for Thanksgiving day is pretty cool. Yesterday when we were coming through Utah we saw little patches of snow, but not nearly as much as we've seen today. Word from the weather people is that Wisconsin has a bit of snow at the moment, but what remains to be seen is whether it'll be there when we get there.
This load was meant to be delivered on Friday but we're probably not going to make it until about midday on Saturday due to some issues at one of the shippers.
Got to see two new states this trip which made me happy - we've now seen Oregon and Idaho! Coming out of the hills in Idaho as the sun was rising was so beautiful, I wish my camera was able to capture stuff like that but it can't, and at least I got to experience it first hand, and that memory will stay with me. Oh and we got to drive through an Indian reservation in Nevada too! which was cool, it was about 3am so there wasn't really anyone around except the wildlife (saw a couple of wolves and a mouse who was running across the highway - he made it by the way).
Just parked up in North Platte, Nebraska and I was really happy when i realised there were snow flurries! Unfortunately they didn't stick around for long, but it was still pretty while it lasted.
Dinner was absolutely delicious tonight, the truck stop we're at was having a thanksgiving day buffet including turkey, baked ham, stuffing, mashed spuds, gravy (light and dark), mac n cheese, green beans, corn... just to name a few things. Then, the desert bar had this really yummy thing called "chocolate brownie overload" it was chocolate brownies, with fudge in the middle, topped with this white chocolate frosting and brown chocolate frosting... oooh it was good, but i could only manage part of a serving because it was so sweet. Pat ended up having bread pudding and this banana pudding thing which looked quite nice. It was so busy in there though, they had a big line of people waiting to be seated, and the poor waiter's and waitresses were run off their feet.
Sunday 25th November:
Made it back to Wisconsin fine, and even got to spend last night at the house doing laundry and catching up with house mates. It was fun. We played a little WoW, watched a bit of tv, had showers, did laundry and all that jazz then went to bed. Its a shame we couldn't be there longer but thats okay because we'll be back there in a couple of weeks.
Our next load is taking us to West Virginia, which is on the eastern side of America. Its kinda hilly with a few mountains thrown in for good measure, so it should be a beautiful sight over there at the moment.
I uploaded some of the photos i took to and from California to the laptop last night so i'll post them online a little bit later (the internet connection here isn't that great so it would take ages just to upload on of them). Hopefully we'll get a good signal at the place we're stopping at tonight. That was one of the things about going out to California, turns out the provider we use doesn't cover the west coast as well as we thought, oh well we didn't need to use it all that often while we were over there.
Oh when we were coming back from California we saw this amazing natural formation called "The Devil's Slide" I didn't manage to get a photo in time but I found a link to one online that I thought you'd like to see http://img.groundspeak.com/waymarking/display/6049c216-17ab-4eb2-9c8f-d1db78188eb5.jpg
I think i'm going to post this up now, and i'll put the photos i did take, up later tonight if we have a good connection - if not then i'll try for tomorrow :)
take care guys,
Love Corina xoxoxox
We're on our way back to Wisconsin - slowly I might add.Things are going pretty good though. I survived the mountains and i'm not as nervous about them as I used to be so thats good.
We passed through area's with snow today!!! Mountain area's in Wyoming and Nebraska have some snow, and yes i did get photos. Its a sure sign that winter is almost here and for it to have arrived for Thanksgiving day is pretty cool. Yesterday when we were coming through Utah we saw little patches of snow, but not nearly as much as we've seen today. Word from the weather people is that Wisconsin has a bit of snow at the moment, but what remains to be seen is whether it'll be there when we get there.
This load was meant to be delivered on Friday but we're probably not going to make it until about midday on Saturday due to some issues at one of the shippers.
Got to see two new states this trip which made me happy - we've now seen Oregon and Idaho! Coming out of the hills in Idaho as the sun was rising was so beautiful, I wish my camera was able to capture stuff like that but it can't, and at least I got to experience it first hand, and that memory will stay with me. Oh and we got to drive through an Indian reservation in Nevada too! which was cool, it was about 3am so there wasn't really anyone around except the wildlife (saw a couple of wolves and a mouse who was running across the highway - he made it by the way).
Just parked up in North Platte, Nebraska and I was really happy when i realised there were snow flurries! Unfortunately they didn't stick around for long, but it was still pretty while it lasted.
Dinner was absolutely delicious tonight, the truck stop we're at was having a thanksgiving day buffet including turkey, baked ham, stuffing, mashed spuds, gravy (light and dark), mac n cheese, green beans, corn... just to name a few things. Then, the desert bar had this really yummy thing called "chocolate brownie overload" it was chocolate brownies, with fudge in the middle, topped with this white chocolate frosting and brown chocolate frosting... oooh it was good, but i could only manage part of a serving because it was so sweet. Pat ended up having bread pudding and this banana pudding thing which looked quite nice. It was so busy in there though, they had a big line of people waiting to be seated, and the poor waiter's and waitresses were run off their feet.
Sunday 25th November:
Made it back to Wisconsin fine, and even got to spend last night at the house doing laundry and catching up with house mates. It was fun. We played a little WoW, watched a bit of tv, had showers, did laundry and all that jazz then went to bed. Its a shame we couldn't be there longer but thats okay because we'll be back there in a couple of weeks.
Our next load is taking us to West Virginia, which is on the eastern side of America. Its kinda hilly with a few mountains thrown in for good measure, so it should be a beautiful sight over there at the moment.
I uploaded some of the photos i took to and from California to the laptop last night so i'll post them online a little bit later (the internet connection here isn't that great so it would take ages just to upload on of them). Hopefully we'll get a good signal at the place we're stopping at tonight. That was one of the things about going out to California, turns out the provider we use doesn't cover the west coast as well as we thought, oh well we didn't need to use it all that often while we were over there.
Oh when we were coming back from California we saw this amazing natural formation called "The Devil's Slide" I didn't manage to get a photo in time but I found a link to one online that I thought you'd like to see http://img.groundspeak.com/waymarking/display/6049c216-17ab-4eb2-9c8f-d1db78188eb5.jpg
I think i'm going to post this up now, and i'll put the photos i did take, up later tonight if we have a good connection - if not then i'll try for tomorrow :)
take care guys,
Love Corina xoxoxox
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Wisconsin is cold
Wednesday 7th November:
Hey guys! we're currently sitting in Wisconsin where we're delivering our load to tonight (yay) no idea where we'll head off to tomorrow though hehe, every day is a new adventure.
Still planning on being back at the house on the 12th, so if you want to try and catch me online, that could be a really good time. Granted the night of the 13th might not be that good for me, because we're having a thanksgiving dinner so i don't think i'll be logged in all that much.
As for that load I mentioned last time. Basically it was a high security load (which is kinda cool if you think about it, they trust hubby enough with it to let him have one). The instructions for the load were really crazy, things like "don't talk about the load, where it was from, where its going, and especially not about what was on it", we even had to keep the truck/trailer within sight at all times,not to mention the lock on it was huge! it weighed a tonne as well and had to be cut off at the delivery place with special bolt cutters. What did we haul, that could possibly warrant that much trouble you might be asking? big screen tv's! nutty huh?
well we've got about an hour or so before we have to head off, i'm going to curl up with a book for a bit.
take care guys
Luv Corina xoxox
Hey guys! we're currently sitting in Wisconsin where we're delivering our load to tonight (yay) no idea where we'll head off to tomorrow though hehe, every day is a new adventure.
Still planning on being back at the house on the 12th, so if you want to try and catch me online, that could be a really good time. Granted the night of the 13th might not be that good for me, because we're having a thanksgiving dinner so i don't think i'll be logged in all that much.
As for that load I mentioned last time. Basically it was a high security load (which is kinda cool if you think about it, they trust hubby enough with it to let him have one). The instructions for the load were really crazy, things like "don't talk about the load, where it was from, where its going, and especially not about what was on it", we even had to keep the truck/trailer within sight at all times,not to mention the lock on it was huge! it weighed a tonne as well and had to be cut off at the delivery place with special bolt cutters. What did we haul, that could possibly warrant that much trouble you might be asking? big screen tv's! nutty huh?
well we've got about an hour or so before we have to head off, i'm going to curl up with a book for a bit.
take care guys
Luv Corina xoxox
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
end of september/ start of october
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
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
Monday, September 17, 2007
another update
Sunday 16th September:
What a week its been! its been so busy, its been hard to find time to sleep (don't worry pat is getting plenty of sleep, i've had to stay up to do things like laundry or keep an eye on our load being put on to let him know when they've finished). I think in a 2 day period i'd had a total of 7 hours sleep. Why had we been doing this? because we'd been stuck on driving at night time schedules and delivering early in the morning or really late at night. Thankfully though we stopped about 1pm the other day so we could get to bed about 6pm, i slept right through until 5am the next morning hehe. I felt a million times better afterwards though so its all good.
We've currently got a load on, it came from Alabama and is going to Wisconsin (which is the state we're in at the moment). To be delivered in the morning, we're only about 30 minutes down the road so thats no problem. That day we parked up early, something really annoying happened to our trailer - it got hit while we were inside having something to eat. Its a curtain side which is why its been a bit of an issue, the curtain partially ripped and with a load on (and the wet weather we've been having), we had to rig it up with wire and duct tape to keep the load from getting wet. Chances are the company is going to want us to go to the terminal here in wisconsin to fix it - you can't haul anything with it the way it is, heck we're going to have to undo what we've done so the people can unload whats on there.
Pat is going to ask his fleet manager if we can take our home time a few days early since we'll be at the yard, and they wont have to deadhead us twice (deadhead is what they call it when you travel places without a load - they're not making money which is why they don't like to do it too often). Not to mention our truck needs a couple of things looked at like the cigarette lighter in the back that we need functioning for our cooler and other electronics.
I found my necklace yesterday YAY, and all because my bookmark slipped down beside the bed. Its been missing for a few weeks now (the necklace), and i was a little worried i wouldn't find it seeing as how i looked in 99% of the nooks and crannies this place has. Turns out that under the side table there's a little dip down that it rolled under. Buts its all good now, and i've got it in a safe place so i wont lose it again.
I've got some photos from the past couple of weeks off the camera, its just a matter of uploading them to the blog. I'll do that tonight if we get the okay to go back to the house.
Hope everyone is well, safe and happy, love you guys!
Corina xoxox
What a week its been! its been so busy, its been hard to find time to sleep (don't worry pat is getting plenty of sleep, i've had to stay up to do things like laundry or keep an eye on our load being put on to let him know when they've finished). I think in a 2 day period i'd had a total of 7 hours sleep. Why had we been doing this? because we'd been stuck on driving at night time schedules and delivering early in the morning or really late at night. Thankfully though we stopped about 1pm the other day so we could get to bed about 6pm, i slept right through until 5am the next morning hehe. I felt a million times better afterwards though so its all good.
We've currently got a load on, it came from Alabama and is going to Wisconsin (which is the state we're in at the moment). To be delivered in the morning, we're only about 30 minutes down the road so thats no problem. That day we parked up early, something really annoying happened to our trailer - it got hit while we were inside having something to eat. Its a curtain side which is why its been a bit of an issue, the curtain partially ripped and with a load on (and the wet weather we've been having), we had to rig it up with wire and duct tape to keep the load from getting wet. Chances are the company is going to want us to go to the terminal here in wisconsin to fix it - you can't haul anything with it the way it is, heck we're going to have to undo what we've done so the people can unload whats on there.
Pat is going to ask his fleet manager if we can take our home time a few days early since we'll be at the yard, and they wont have to deadhead us twice (deadhead is what they call it when you travel places without a load - they're not making money which is why they don't like to do it too often). Not to mention our truck needs a couple of things looked at like the cigarette lighter in the back that we need functioning for our cooler and other electronics.
I found my necklace yesterday YAY, and all because my bookmark slipped down beside the bed. Its been missing for a few weeks now (the necklace), and i was a little worried i wouldn't find it seeing as how i looked in 99% of the nooks and crannies this place has. Turns out that under the side table there's a little dip down that it rolled under. Buts its all good now, and i've got it in a safe place so i wont lose it again.
I've got some photos from the past couple of weeks off the camera, its just a matter of uploading them to the blog. I'll do that tonight if we get the okay to go back to the house.
Hope everyone is well, safe and happy, love you guys!
Corina xoxox
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