Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Coming to an end
We came out on the truck because we needed to pay off some debt and get some savings built up. We have not been consistently making enough money, so after much deliberation, we have decided to take up residence in Utah. We are going to live with my parents for a little while until we get our feet under us, and then find a place of our own. Josh and I both plan to work, and Josh will also go to school. We have applied for jobs and are waiting to hear back from the companies. I am here in Utah currently, and Josh is finishing up on the truck while he waits to hear about a job. We are both disappointed that this didn't work out as well as we thought it would. Some weeks were great, but others weren't. We have had a lot of fun though, and seen a lot of country, and we are so glad we were able to go on this adventure together.
It has also been very stressful at times trying to find places, and keeping our log book according to regulations, and backing up in places that don't have enough room, etc. That part I am glad we won't have to deal with anymore! But the best part has been being together 24 hours a day. For anyone that knows us well, knows how crazy we are about being together all the time. This time apart has been very difficult for us, but I guess we had better get used to it...
We are excited to begin this new adventure together in Utah, and hopefully it will work out better in the long run.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Louisana
There is a bridge in Louisana on I-10 that is 18 miles long. Yes, I said 18 miles. It goes across several swamps and bayous. The worst part about it is that trucks can only go in the right lane and they have to go slower than the cars. That drives Josh crazy! We have crossed this bridge at least 5 or 6 times.
We went to church in Baton Rouge, LA and as we pulled up to the church, we realized it shared a parking lot with the Temple! That was a fun surprise for us to be able to see the temple there. When we were at church, people just doted on Lizzy, just like they do everywhere we go. Everywhere we go, everyone makes comments about how cute and how small she is. Some of the descriptions used most often are petite, precious, delicate, and many have said that she looks just like a perfect little porcelin doll. They are always very good to include Mitch in the conversation and tell him how handsome he is and ask him questions about himself and his sister.
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Coolest Restaurants Ever!
On Monday we were driving up I-55 through Missouri, and I started seeing billboards for Lamberts CafĂ©, Only Home of the Throwed Rolls. We didn’t think too much of it until Josh was talking to his friend, Sally, who told us that if we were going through there that we really needed to stop and eat there because it is something everyone should do at least once in their lives. So we took her advice and stopped for lunch. Boy was she ever right! Lambert’s ranks right up there with Olive Garden in my book! I was surprised to see a line to get in at two o’clock in the afternoon, but the line moved quickly, and we were soon seated. It was a large dining room, not unlike a cafeteria, and servers were walking around the room calling out things such as, “Black-eyed peas!” or “Fried okra” or “Macaroni and tomatoes”. Then when someone indicated that they would like some, they would scoop some onto their plate. And then there was the guy with the rolls. He would yell out, “Hot rolls!” after which someone would raise their hand, and he would throw the roll to the person! Even from all the way across the room. Then there was the food you actually ordered. It was fabulous, and a huge portion! I got the pot roast, and it was so delicious! The corn and mashed potatoes I had with it were fabulous too. But the hot rolls with the butter and honey were top in my book.
Later that day we were able to go through another town that Josh served in on his mission, Matoon, IL. We got to see Sally, John Wilson and his wife and son, and Sister Cain. I also got to see two more of the apartments he lived in. It was really fun.
Today we dropped our load off in Chicago, and picked up a new one, and now we are headed to Washington, IN.
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Nauvoo
Since it was the end of October, there weren’t many people, or many bugs, or high temperatures. It was fabulous!! After a brief stop at the Visitor’s Center, we went to the Family Living Center where we got to make a rope and learn how barrels were made. Then we made our way walking down Main Street visiting the various shops and buildings along the way. We learned a lot and enjoyed ourselves. We got a small horseshoe and prairie diamond rings at the blacksmith shop, a cookie at the bakery, and I learned that Jonathon Browning of Browning Guns lived in Nauvoo. We walked down to the end of Parley Street where the Pioneers crossed the Mississippi River when the left Nauvoo.
That night we ate at the Hotel Nauvoo and then went to the Historic Nauvoo Cultural Center for a show called “Rendezvous in Old Nauvoo”. The senior couple missionaries performed this hilarious and touching show about what it might have been like in Nauvoo just before the Saints had to leave. We loved it!!
The next day we went on a ride in a wagon that is built the same as the early saints wagons were, pulled by a team of oxen. Then we visited the Red Brick Store before we hurried back to go on a wagon ride tour of Nauvoo. We learned a lot about Nauvoo on the tour as well as a little about the river. After the tour, we went to the Brick maker and learned how they made bricks, which I found fascinating. They gave us a souvenir brick, and also one of the imperfect ones to Mitch. Then we went back to the Family Living Center and learned how they made fabric, wove rugs, made candles, and baked bread. We had time for one last stop at the Heber C. Kimball house before they all closed up for the night.
Next we headed for Carthage. We went to Carthage Jail where Joseph Smith was murdered. They were closed for the night too, so we didn’t get to take a tour, but we were able to walk around the outside of it. After that we went to Macomb, IL which is one of the cities Josh served in on his mission. I even got to see the apartment where he lived. We couldn’t get a hold of anyone he knew in that city though.
It was a very fun couple of days!! Another adventure we couldn’t have gone on if we weren’t trucking! We are really lucky!
Friday, October 26, 2007
October
We are currently on our way from the Hammond, IN to Montebello, CA. Basically from Chicago to LA. I don’t know what it is about disaster areas, but we seem to be sent to them a lot. Right after the Minneapolis bridge collapsed, we had to go through Minneapolis, and now in the midst of raging wildfires in southern CA, we get sent there. I’m sure we’ll be fine though. The good news is that we got to go through SLC on our way and see our family.
Our last two loads took us from the Chicago area to New Jersey and back again. We especially enjoyed the westbound trip. We were able to take our time, and really enjoyed the beautiful trees in Pennsylvania. It made me want to move there even more. We went to church in Brookville, Pennsylvania. They had a nice little ward there and were very welcoming. One family even invited us to their house for dinner after church. We enjoyed a delicious dinner and great company. That made me want to move there even more! Maybe we will…
When we were in Hammond to unload our last load, we drove by a really funny sign. The sign said, ”We believe in Community. We exist because of you. Thank you for your patronage.” What’s so funny about that, you ask? Well, it was on the side of a liquor store. It might as well have said, “Thank you for being such a heavily boozing community.”
We have definitely been enjoying the cooler weather. The northern part of the country is much more pleasant in October than the southern part. We even saw some snow as we drove across Wyoming. It has been nice to be able to leave the truck off at night and have it cool enough to sleep.
Monday, October 8, 2007
Joyce
Beaches
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Sea World
Ready for a day of fun!
The first thing we did was go to the Shamu show called “Believe”. It was a flop. :) Okay, so the show wasn’t, but the whales did like to flop into the water! It was a great way to start out the day. We all liked the show, and Mitchell thought it was pretty cool that those whales could do all that stuff.
After the show we walked over to the feeding and interaction pool for the dolphins. They have fish available to purchase to feed to the dolphins, and you can touch them. We didn’t buy any fish, but we got to touch the dolphins anyway. It was one of my favorite parts of Sea World. I have always loved dolphins, so it was awesome to be able to touch one.
Next we stopped at the tide pool. They have a whole bunch of star fish, sea cucumbers, urchins, clams, and snails for people to look at, and even touch. We all got to pick up starfish and feel a sea cucumber. It was so cool!
Then we went through the salt water aquarium building on our way to the skyride. Even Lizzy was fascinated with all the cool fish to look at! We went on the skyride over the bay next. Mitchell decided he liked to look out over the water and at the boats and birds, but he didn’t like to look down because it scared him.
We saw sharks, freshwater fish, penguins, flamingos, polar bears, walruses, and Clydesdale horses.
The dolphin show was pretty cool. Those dolphins can jump really high! They had a family from the audience help them out. They each did something different. The mom acted really freaked out when she was supposed to do her thing with the dolphin, and then later when she was taking a picture of her son, she fell in the water!! She looked like she was panicking and started swimming the wrong way. Pretty soon the dolphin came over to her, and started pushing her around the pool with its nose! It pushed her up onto the place where the trainers were standing, and then they finally informed us that she was really a trainer, not part of the family. They tricked us pretty good!
The coolest one of the shows was the one with the sea lions. They were so interactive! I had no idea sea lions were so cool. They would stand up and look at stuff with the trainers, follow behind them with their noses on the trainer’s backs, shake their heads yes and no, and all kinds of stuff. The mime from that show gave Mitchell a high-five.
It was a pretty great day!
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
On the road again
When we climbed on the truck last night Josh and I both agreed that it felt like home. We missed being on the road. We are going to enjoy it even more now that we have made some improvements to the truck. Josh made a fabulous dinette set for the back that folds down into a bed, and we got some new, very comfortable seats for the front. We are loving it!
We are heading to Chula Vista, CA with our load from Boise. That is near San Diego, so we are hoping to do something fun while we are there.
I will post some pictures soon.
Until then...
Monday, September 10, 2007
Home
Mitchell is getting glasses today. He also has 4 cavities that he will be getting filled. And he is getting shots tomorrow. Lucky him. :) I am enjoying my new haircut, and we are all just as happy as clams!
Friday, August 31, 2007
On our way home
Trucks have to go through scales every time they enter or exit a state and sometimes in the middle of the state. This is time consuming because of having to stop and then get back to freeway speed. Obviously, no one likes to do it, so they have a little device that sticks to the front window of the truck that can communicate with the scale house to let the people know who you are before you get there. Then the scale house sends a signal back to the PrePass (the device) that gives you either a green light to let you know it is okay to bypass the scale, or a red light that tells you to come in and get weighed. This makes it very nice because you can save a lot of time and fuel. Unfortunately for us, for the past few days, we have got red lights at every scale house. Apparently, the computer shows we have to come in every time for a “safety” reason. This is usually a fleet wide reason, but no one else in our fleet has been getting it, so our boss is looking into it. Hopefully that will be resolved soon.
The good news is that we are finally on our way home. It took some doing, too! After we got to St Louis we got a preplan that wanted us to go to Houston, TX. We called our boss, and he called the dispatcher, and after a while he called back and said we could get a load going to Oregon, and they could push the delivery back a couple of days so we could spend two days at home. We told them there was no way that would work for us since we needed to make a couple of repairs and improvements to the truck, and move all the stuff from our house to a storage unit. That can’t be done in two days. So they tried to find something different, and finally decided to have us pick up a load going to San Antonio, TX, and take it to Mississippi to meet up with another driver who had a load going to Salt Lake City. So we picked up our load and took it to Winona, MS and swapped loads. Right now we just crossed the border from Iowa into Nebraska (Iowa being our 33rd state). We should be able to get about halfway across Nebraska today and then to SLC by tomorrow night. We are very excited to get home and get everything done!
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
On your mark, get set, GO!
We completely lose all track of the days of the week when we are on the truck. We had no idea that it was Sunday until Josh’s dad call us and said they were home from church. Whoops! We still have to drive on Sundays, but we usually go to church, and then don’t buy anything all day. We also listen to Sunday music in the truck all day. Since we missed church, we took turns telling scripture stories, and listened to our cd of Primary music.
When we were leaving Denver, we tried to call my Uncle Dea, but I just had to leave a message. He called me back about an hour later, and I found out that we had been within a few miles of his house. By then we were too far away to get together though, but if we go through there again we will try again.
The last couple of days, Mitchell and I have had a lot of fun doing races. First, we pick out a course. At one place, we started at a crack in the sidewalk, then ran and touched the light post, then ran and touched the fire hydrant, and then ran and touched the light on the bottom of the trailer. Then I would get my stopwatch ready, and tell Mitchell, “On your mark, get set, GO!” He would run the course, with me yelling reminders of where to run next, and I would time him. Then I would take a turn. At the rest stop we slept at last night, he ran another course repeatedly to see if he could improve his time each time. He really loves to run, and everywhere we stop, he asks if we can do more races.
Today we stopped for fuel and lunch, and there was a playground to play on. There was a gorilla statue there too. We tried to tell Mitchell it was his brother, but he reminded us that he was a monkey, not a gorilla. He’s a pretty funny boy. The playground also had a slightly more sophisticated version of tin cans on a string. They have pipe that goes underground with a funnel shaped openings on each end about 4 feet high so that you can talk to each other from the opposite ends of the playground. Mitchell loved talking through those. Josh and Mitchell mooed at each other.
Mitchell just made a card for his dad that said, “Dear Dad I love you Love Mitchell”. It was really cute. It even had a picture of Mitchell and his dad. He is getting pretty good at writing. Even though we were driving down the road, his words were very legible.
Thursday, August 23, 2007
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina
We went through West Virginia and Maryland on our way to New Jersey. The area where West Virginia meets Maryland was very mountainous. It was also very foggy, so we were going up and down hills with 6% grade for 13+ miles, and you could only see a few hundred feet in front of the truck. It wasn’t really very fun. We would prefer to not drive through that area again.
After we delivered that load, we drove to York, PA to get another. We love Pennsylvania! They have fun road games, like “Watch for aggressive drivers” (We saw lots of them) and “Maintain at least 2 dots between vehicles”. This is like connect the dots for vehicles, only you have to connect them at the right speed. Seriously though, we did love Pennsylvania. It was so beautiful, and not as hot as the southern states. The trees and other vegetation were so thick and lush. One thing we noticed was the amount of mushrooms they must have. They had mushroom mulch, registered mushrooms, and just about every store and restaurant advertised mushrooms. There were also a lot of quaint little villages and beautiful farmland. They have to mow the grass around their fields of corn, and it looks so gorgeous. We are very tempted to move there when we are done trucking…
From York we headed south to Greensboro, NC. We went back through Maryland, through Washington DC, and Virginia. We got to see the Washington DC temple all lit up as we drove through. It was so fun to come around the corner and see it there in front of us. We unloaded in Greensboro and we are now on our way to Charlotte, NC to pick up our next load to take to Nashville, TN.
We’ve noticed there is a lack of respect for the speed limit in the East. The flow of traffic is consistently 10-20 miles above the speed limit. I guess the police don’t enforce the speed limit very much.
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Sittin' in Murray
Friday, August 17, 2007
Texas to Georgia
Now, backtracking a little… We went through our company headquarters, Colorado Springs, on our way to Texas. Our boss and his wife, Bill and Gayle, took us to dinner. We went to the Marigold on Cameron’s recommendation. It was pretty good, but I think it probably would have been better at lunch so Josh could have had soup in a bread bowl. Gayle gave Mitch a book and even read it to him at dinner.
That night we looked online to find where there was a church we could go to and found one in Walsenburg, CO that started at 1:00pm, so we drove that far, and parked for the night. The next day we took our time getting ready and then we drove to the church. We got there at about 12:45 and waited until 1:30, and no one showed up. I guess either the website had the wrong time, or they had stake conference or something. We were pretty disappointed though, especially after the fun we had in Pikeville.
New Mexico ranks among our favorite states to drive in. The roads are very smooth. Not like the motocross track roads in some of the other states that have jumps in the roads. We got lost on our way to the place to unload in El Paso. They gave us directions coming from the wrong way, and then used the wrong street name. After we crossed the border back into New Mexico, we called the company and got more correct directions, and turned around. Before we could get going again, we were stopped by a very long funeral procession. There were probably about 200 cars in it. We had to wait for 5-10 minutes for it to go by. Luckily, we were still able to get to the company on time.
People keep trying to run into us. In New Mexico, a pickup tried to merge onto the freeway, and never once looked to the left to see if it was clear. We had to hurry and move over so he didn’t hit us. He was probably only 6 inches away before he ever looked. Then just now, a lady in a car passed us in the left lane, and then tried to merge right into the front of the truck. Did she not see the big white semi as she drove past it?
In El Paso, we unload our load of sunflower seeds, took our empty trailer to a drop lot, and picked up a loaded trailer to take to Electrolux in Port Wentworth, GA (just north of Savannah). We had to drive our full 11 hours each day to get there in time, so we didn’t have time to stop and enjoy the scenery as much as we usually do.
The lady in the guardhouse in Port Wentworth hadn’t ever met anyone from Idaho before, and she asked Josh if everyone in Idaho dressed the same as him. She said he looked like a cowboy. He told her that he probably dressed that way more than most.
There are some funny signs in Georgia. Every few miles there is a sign that says, “Speed checked by detection devices”. What else would it be checked by? We decided that they must be really proud of their radar guns. The other funny sign we saw last night was when we were driving on the freeway in a place where the two sides of the freeway are divided by a large median with trees in the middle. There were two lanes going each direction. There was sign that said, “Trucks over 6 wheels must use 2 right lanes”. There were only two lanes to begin with! They have those signs every few miles throughout Georgia, but usually when there are three or more lanes. We thought it was pretty funny.
Lizzy is getting so big. She can drink water or milkshakes through a straw. She loves to eat big people food. Every time we eat, she will look up at the person holding her, and whine. If that doesn’t work, she starts arching her back and throwing a fit. She’s not even six months old yet! I think we’re going to have our hands full. Her hair is long enough to put up in a little ponytail on the top of her head. She’s pretty cute!
Mitchell always wants to play the arcade games at the truck stop. He is still to smart for his own good. He can count to 100, do simple addition, and this morning he started figuring out multiplication. He told me to ask him what 2+2+2 was, and when I did, he told me 6. I told him that was the same as 2x3, and he started doing other ones. Now he knows 2 x 1, 2, 3 and 4. He knows how to figure out other ones as well. He is doing really well learning to read too. I think he probably needs glasses, and when he gets them, I think his reading will really take off.
We are all still loving being on the truck, and we are planning on moving all our stuff from our house into a storage unit since we don’t plan on being home much. We can use our rent money a lot more wisely. We put in a home request yesterday, but we don’t know how long it will take them to find a load to there. They don’t normally haul to Idaho, so they will probably have to find us a load through a broker. I guess we’ll have to see what happens.
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Very short
Thursday, August 9, 2007
The Dakotas
We made it through Minneapolis, and didn’t even experience much traffic. We made it to North Dakota with plenty of time to spare. We took our time through Wisconsin, and thought about stopping in Wisconsin Dells because there are some very famous water/amusement parks there, but they were all too expensive. So we settled on stopping for frozen custard. Mmmm, frozen custard… It was not quite as good as Nielson’s in SLC, but still nice and creamy!
After delivering our load in Fargo, ND, we went to pick up a new load in Grandin, ND (about 20 miles north). Josh dropped the kids and me off at a park to play while he was loading. They had one of my favorite pieces of playground equipment, the merry-go-round! We had a lot of fun playing. I would even sit on the merry-go-round holding Lizzy, and Mitch would run around pushing us until we got going really fast, and then jump on. While we were at the park, Mitchell and I decided to play “Simon Says”. He was really good at it! I hadn’t ever really played it with him, but he must have played it with his friends or something, because I couldn’t ever trick him into doing something that Simon didn’t say to do. I was really impressed.
Right now we are in South Dakota (our 21st state) on our way to El Paso, Texas. We are hauling sunflower seeds. Last night we stayed the night in Mitchell, SD. Mitch thought that was pretty cool that there was a town with the same name as him. Mitchell (the town) is famous for a corn palace. The first corn palace was built there in 1892. The building is decorated entirely with corn, grasses and grains that are native to SD, both the outside and inside. Each year it is redecorated using a different theme. This year the theme was the rodeo. It was pretty cool.
Although Sturgis, SD is still over 100 miles away from where we are, we have seen hundreds of motorcycles, and every where we stop has signs that say, “Welcome Bikers”. Come to find out, the Sturgis Motorcycle rally is August 6-12. We are in South Dakota right in the middle of it! There are also hundreds of RV’s which I assume are so abundant for the same reason.
South Dakota has very bumpy roads. Everything that is not well secured falls down, usually on me! We had a box of leftover pizza in an overhead compartment, and on any other road, it would’ve been fine, but instead it fell out, and of course all the pizza fell on the floor of the truck.
We went through a cool rest stop the other day. It had a place to hike up to a scenic overlook, so we took a little hike. It was very refreshing to get some exercise in the middle of the trees.
As we were going through Illinois on our way to North Dakota, we stopped in Champaign and had dinner with a lady Josh knew from his mission. We found an Olive Garden (my favorite) that was near a place we could park, and we ate there. Sally drove about 45 miles to meet us there. It was really great for me to finally meet her after hearing so much about her. We hope to be able to go through his mission more in the future.
Monday, August 6, 2007
Pikeville, KY
The drive to Pikeville was through the mountains, and not on very big roads, so we were very surprised to find a lot of businesses there. There were several restaurants, both fast food and sit down, and many stores including Wal-Mart, K-Mart, and a couple of strip malls. There is even a college there.
We went to church in Pikeville. They had a fairly small branch there, and everyone was really nice to us. They were just disappointed that we were only passing through instead of moving in. There was one particularly nice couple that we talked to for about an hour after church named Jason and Brooke Cavanaugh. They even had kids the same age as ours. We exchanged phone numbers and addresses so if we ever go through there again we can give them a call and get together.
From Pikeville we went to Carrollton, KY. We picked up a load this morning from a company that makes plastic stuff that gets mixed with bottles and things to strengthen them. They were really strict on their safety policies and Josh had to wear a long sleeve shirt and pants along with a hard hat and safety glasses. The worst part was that they wouldn’t even let the kids and I inside the fence at all, so we had to wake Mitchell up at 5:30 am MST and go sit outside on a bench to wait for Josh to switch trailers. Josh had to watch a little video about safety and what to do in case of an emergency. If the sirens sounded, for instance, he was supposed to look at the windsock on the top of the building, walk crosswind, and then upwind to a safety point.
We are now hauling some sort of liquid up to Fargo, ND. It is weird to feel the truck rock every time we stop or start. Our route takes us right through Minneapolis, MN which we are not particularly excited about after the collapse of that bridge, but we will be going through a different part of the city, so hopefully it will be okay.
Thursday, August 2, 2007
The Petro and the Park
From Ft. Worth we headed north to Springfield, MO, and are continuing on from there to Jackson, MI. We spent the night last night in Effingham, Illinois, which was in the southern part of Josh’s mission, although he didn’t ever serve in that city. We stayed at the Petro truck stop. They had an actual restaurant there instead of the usual Arby’s or Subway. They had a fabulous breakfast buffet with unlimited French toast and bacon. There was a lot of other stuff too, but that is what I ate the most of. Their showers actually had doors on them too which was an improvement over the other places. The shower rooms are private and have locked doors, but the shower itself is usually open to the room. This one was much more conducive to the whole family showering in one room.
Yesterday we stopped to eat lunch at Robertson State Park in Illinois. It was about a million degrees outside! In reality it was only 102ish, but with the humidity, it might as well have been a million. Note the sweaty little boy. It was a fun place for Mitch to ride his bike and Lizzy to play in her walker. They even had a little playground to play on. Lizzy found the picnic benches particularly appetizing. I went to clean our picnic stuff up, and Mitch was playing on the playground, and I told him that we would honk the horn when we were ready to go. A few minutes later, I saw him walking back from the playground, and I continued cleaning up and talking to Josh. All of the sudden, I about jumped out of my skin when the semi horn honked. Mitchell had decided it was time to go and honked the horn to let us know! It was really funny!
Monday, July 30, 2007
Lost Mitchell, crazy drivers, and weird signs
As we drove into Texas we saw the weirdest speed limit signs. They had a lower speed for nighttime driving!
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Visiting Cameron
Going through St. Louis
Friday, July 27, 2007
Traveling games
We have also been having a lot of fun playing the "alphabet game" and "I spy". Mitchell isn't always very patient with the alphabet game when we get stuck on a hard letter like "q", but he absolutely loves playing "I spy". He also has a little handheld game player that has mazes and tic tac toe and some other preschool level games that he has been having a lot of fun playing.
It is so fun and exciting to always be going somewhere new. It seems like several times a day we will be driving through a city we have never been. I love seeing new places. I love the cities and the country. It is so green and beautiful in the east. Everywhere you look there are trees and grass. The medians look better than our front yard back home, and we water it every day! You can also see the humidity everywhere you look. It looks foggy outside, and you can see halos around the streetlights at night.
Thursday, July 26, 2007
A note about the blog title
Our first load!
I love listening to the Kentucky drawl. I think it is so interesting how we can all speak the same language and sound so different. I can understand how a child grows up to speak like his parents, but why are accents so regional?
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
A little bit random
The country defineately gets greener the farther east we go. We are now in Missouri (here is a picture I took with my phone because the camera batteries were dead) and there are a lot more trees and rolling hills than were in Kansas. The countryside is quite pretty. This morning Josh started driving before Mitchell was done with his cereal, and it spilled all over the bed. We won't be trying that again.
It is nice to finallly be on the road. With all the repairs that had to be done on the truck, it seemed like it was never going to happen. We are very excited, but still a little nervous and apprehensive about the unknown. That should lessen as time goes on though. Once we've been on the road for a couple of weeks, we should have a good idea of what to expect and the anxiety will leave.
We saw some signs yesterday that advertised an 8000 lb. groundhog and a 5 legged live steer. We decided they must be really desperate for tourists or something. We didn't go check it out.
I am a little bit random today. There is so much to see and experience, and I am not sure which things to share. So feel free to email me or make comments on what you want to hear more about or less about.