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Oi, Vey!

No, I'm not Jewish, but thanks to popular culture and over use of that coined Jewish phrase, I can use it... so there. I'm in rare form today. I've been on a wierd emotional roller coaster these past few days, partially due to whatever sickeness I endured for three freakin' days and partially due to the fact that...well... I'm a woman. I last left off sitting in Atlanta overnight, again. The following morning I obtained the load I was assigned to pick up and headed north and west with it, towards northern Illinois. I made it as far as the Indy terminal where I pooped out for the night. I was exhausted and feeling rather crappy. I knew I had a slight fever and on top of that I had a killer headache, sniffles and a sore throat. I believe I had a mild flu. I called in to let the folks at my company know of my ailments and their advice was to sleep it off and call back in the morning if I wasn't any better. And that's exactly what I had to do. When I woke up in

I am alive.... mostly.

I've not blogged for a little bit and apparently a few of you have been concerned. I am alive... mostly and just truckin' right along. I had a great few days at home and the break was certainly welcome. When I left out on the 19th I headed over to Catlettsburg, KY to pick up a load that was bound for Providence, Rhode Island. On that trip I added two new states... Conneticut and Rhode Island. I don't particularly like either of them. Crappy road surfaces was the main deciding factor in that decision. But I digress. I picked up the load and headed for RI. The trip took me two days and then I was picking up another load in West Warwick, RI to head back south with. I ended up at the Carlisle terminal in PA on my way soundward, in a hotel getting my truck fixed. I was having charging issues so they had to work it all out and I got a night in a hotel! And to boot, the ol' man was working in the eastern panhandle of WV, only 70 miles away and he came up and stayed the night w

What a trip!

To start my long, arduous journey out of California, I was dispatched to pick up a load in Santa Fe Springs, CA. I aquired the load and headed northeastward into the great state of Nevada. It wasn't much, but it started the trip east/homeward bound out on a good, 500 mile step. The load was bound for Wal-Mart shelves as I delivered general merchandise to the greater Reno area's Distribution Center. Bah... I hate contributing.... but it's my job. After delivering that load I was dispatched to find an empty trailer at a drop lot in Sparks, NV. After a little ado with my Qualcomm going screwy and not realizing that the place I was at had an actual drop lot, I found the trailer and headed further east to pick up a load in Lovelock, NV. It should have been a simple drop and hook, but I should know full well by now that NOTHING is ever going to be as simple as it seems. I arrived at the shippers location, which was fluidly easy to find and checked in with the shipping office. The

Sunny *sigh* Southern California

Not quite the dreamscape I'd imagined actually, but it will do. When the dust isn't blowing in the wind, it's actually KINDA pretty here. I am in an area surrounded by snow capped mountains, which is nice. But it's nothing like I'd imagined. I guess I shouldn't have had such high expectations. It's not all bad though. The temperatures are moderately warm which allowed me to wear a t-shirt without a jacket for the first time since sometime back in October or early November. So that was nice. I got here yesterday evening, much later than I'd expected. It took me a lot longer than I'd anticipated to get here too. I got stuck in post Super Bowl traffic down in Phoenix, which sucked. But then it was just a long freakin' drive across I-10 into Cali. I thought I only had about 250-300 miles to go from Prescott Valley... but it was more lik 450. EEK! But I suvived and suffered. Survived because I made it without incident... suffered because I had to driv

It’s finally time...

I've been on my journey to California now for a week. I've not made it yet, but I will today. I have had a great time since I left Missouri on Thursday. I really didn't like most of Oklahoma as it was pretty much just trudging through a horrendous snow storm, but once I broke free of that and made it into New Mexico it was fantastic. I have mentioned before that I lived in southern New Mexico, but that I'd never traveled to the northern part of the state. I wish now that I'd have done so in a privately owned auto so I could have seen the sites and enjoyed more of the beauty outside of a vehicle. Big trucks have so few places they can go in the world, really. And all of the places I would loved to have checked out didn't allow big trucks. But I was able to snap a few pictures and enjoy what I could see thoroughly. I enjoyed NM and AZ on Friday and Saturday. I was skeptical that AZ was going to produce anything beautiful for the first half of my drive on Saturday,