So... Kentucky. And Tennessee. I thought that since they were sorta south that they would be sorta warm.
Wroooong!
Kentucky was very snowy and very icy. We got snowed on the two days we were there. It was coooold. And then we headed to Tennessee. And holy hell. We were on a US road, which Rick said were the freeways like ten, twenty years ago. Two lane roads that go through small towns and the occasional stoplight. We go on these alot, and they're not so bad. But this time, we drove about 45 miles down the road and suddenly, they had the whole thing fenced off and signs saying the pavement ended. There was room enough to turn around at least, which we had to do and backtrack like 13 miles back. My guess is they were blasting into the rock and the road collapsed. They had signs for quarry entrances along it so anyways, that's my guess :) sooo we backtracked onto this evil little backroad that was all uphill, downhill, 20 mph curves (semi speed was like 15...) yeah. It was terrifying. After a while there was ice on it and we had to go even slower. But finally we made it to Tennessee.
We parked at the Pilot and went to go inside to potty and stuff, and we were having trouble breathing in the air. I checked the weather and it was 8 degrees! Wtf? And we were wearing our flip flops, Rick was wearing his usual shorts. It was effing cold. And to top it off, the heater in our truck that keeps the back warm, it's separate from the other heaters, crapped out on us. Ugh. But it rained and made it warm thank goodness. We got a nice wash yesterday from the pouring rain :)
Oh yeah... And before all that shit with the roads, our tire wore out and popped off the rim. A great start to the day... well night... At least the repair truck got to us fast. Sometimes it takes like 6 hours to get someone out to you, but it only took him two to get to us. We weren't on the freeway or anything, we just had started driving on a road when we were like, something doesn't feel right. Dur. It was awesome.
So we came to Georgia from Kentucky, and got to drive through downtown Atlanta on the freeway :) at night too. They had some really awesome buildings and the lights made them look even cooler. I wish I had a camera that would take pictures at night :( so we've been at the terminal here just chilling, waiting for our registration stickers. But it's cool, they have a driver's lounge, bathrooms, and free showers! Our favorite! :)
While we were here I filled out an application so they can get it in the system so I can start when we get back home. Eeeek. Getting closer to the time we go home... A week from today is when we are supposed to be home! Yay! After I finish the training frocess and we become Team Drivers, we will probably not come home so much because we will be making good money and wont want to take time off... We hope so anyway!
Until next time,
Happy New Years! From the Big Red Truck
Friday, December 31, 2010
Friday, December 24, 2010
Christmas and Other... er... Stuff
Well, Christmas is finally upon us at last. Must I say, I'm relieved. We are people who dislike crowds, who prefer driving at night and shopping at 3 in the morning. So it will be a relief to go back to empty roads and stores :) yay!
We got to go to Florida to visit my grandparents, and it was the best Christmas present ever :) I hardly get to see them because they live so far away, and to be able to go see them especially near Christmas was awesome. It was lots of fun, we hung out watching movies, talking, and went to the beach. I'll post pictures when I get home. It made my Christmas :)
And today is me and Rick's three year anniversary! Amazing, we haven't killed each other yet :) surprisingly, we've only had like three fights since we've started trucking, and got over them pretty quickly. We are definitely still going strong so that's good :)
As far as weather goes, I was hoping to have a palm tree Christmas, but after our Florida load we got sent up north to Ohio :( right now we are sitting in a Pilot watching Law and Order Criminal Intent while waiting for our laundry to finish, and talkin to another trucker. It's different from our usual Christmas Eve, but it fits us well. We are random people, so being in Beaverdam Ohio for Christmas at a truck stop is pretty cool.
I'll probably blog again tomorrow because right now I'm pretty distracted :p so Merry Christmas y'all!
Happy Holidays from Rick, Lola, and Kitty
We got to go to Florida to visit my grandparents, and it was the best Christmas present ever :) I hardly get to see them because they live so far away, and to be able to go see them especially near Christmas was awesome. It was lots of fun, we hung out watching movies, talking, and went to the beach. I'll post pictures when I get home. It made my Christmas :)
And today is me and Rick's three year anniversary! Amazing, we haven't killed each other yet :) surprisingly, we've only had like three fights since we've started trucking, and got over them pretty quickly. We are definitely still going strong so that's good :)
As far as weather goes, I was hoping to have a palm tree Christmas, but after our Florida load we got sent up north to Ohio :( right now we are sitting in a Pilot watching Law and Order Criminal Intent while waiting for our laundry to finish, and talkin to another trucker. It's different from our usual Christmas Eve, but it fits us well. We are random people, so being in Beaverdam Ohio for Christmas at a truck stop is pretty cool.
I'll probably blog again tomorrow because right now I'm pretty distracted :p so Merry Christmas y'all!
Happy Holidays from Rick, Lola, and Kitty
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Where Work Feels More Like A Vacation
So it's been pretty nice not having to deal with snow much this winter. I dislike cold very much. Rick loves it. I was pleased to see him finally admit that it was too cold when we were in Illinois, that doesn't happen very often. We barely escaped the evil snowstorms that are tormenting Illinois, Minnesota, Indiana, and Ohio and made a break for Arizona.
Ahh.
I love Arizona. I was born there, and lived there the first 9 years of my life. If I had the chance I would move back there in a heartbeat. I love it. Rick's never seen a saguaro (sp?) cactus in person before, so I made sure to show him one. Kitty tried to rub up against it but luckily didn't get too close.
We took Kitty out on his leash to show him around, and he didn't like it too much. But I got some awesome pictures which I will be sure to post when I get home. Right now we are in Texas on the I-10, and it takes us through the longest part of the state. Gah. We got to drive through El Paso and we think we saw Mexico. And there are tons of Border Patrol cars everywhere, and we went through an inspection station. It's pretty awesome since we have nothing to hide, so we can just enjoy it. We are on our way to New Orleans right now, this load is a multi drop load so they take part of it there and we continue partially loaded to... Florida! Some random place is our first stop, then we head down to West Palm Beach! We will be driving by Melbourne, where my grandparents live, so we are going to drop by and give them a Christmas heart attack. Not really, but I'm so excited! Then off to Palm Beach. We can't wait to show kitty the beach- it should be interesting.
Everything is good, we are good, we miss family though. It's getting closer to the time for me to go through the training class, I'm nervous but excited!
Until next time,
Lola, Rick, and Kitty
Ahh.
I love Arizona. I was born there, and lived there the first 9 years of my life. If I had the chance I would move back there in a heartbeat. I love it. Rick's never seen a saguaro (sp?) cactus in person before, so I made sure to show him one. Kitty tried to rub up against it but luckily didn't get too close.
We took Kitty out on his leash to show him around, and he didn't like it too much. But I got some awesome pictures which I will be sure to post when I get home. Right now we are in Texas on the I-10, and it takes us through the longest part of the state. Gah. We got to drive through El Paso and we think we saw Mexico. And there are tons of Border Patrol cars everywhere, and we went through an inspection station. It's pretty awesome since we have nothing to hide, so we can just enjoy it. We are on our way to New Orleans right now, this load is a multi drop load so they take part of it there and we continue partially loaded to... Florida! Some random place is our first stop, then we head down to West Palm Beach! We will be driving by Melbourne, where my grandparents live, so we are going to drop by and give them a Christmas heart attack. Not really, but I'm so excited! Then off to Palm Beach. We can't wait to show kitty the beach- it should be interesting.
Everything is good, we are good, we miss family though. It's getting closer to the time for me to go through the training class, I'm nervous but excited!
Until next time,
Lola, Rick, and Kitty
Where Work Feels More Like A Vacation
So it's been pretty nice not having to deal with snow much this winter. I dislike cold very much. Rick loves it. I was pleased to see him finally admit that it was too cold when we were in Illinois, that doesn't happen very often. We barely escaped the evil snowstorms that are tormenting Illinois, Minnesota, Indiana, and Ohio and made a break for Arizona.
Ahh.
I love Arizona. I was born there, and lived there the first 9 years of my life. If I had the chance I would move back there in a heartbeat. I love it. Rick's never seen a saguaro (sp?) cactus in person before, so I made sure to show him one. Kitty tried to rub up against it but luckily didn't get too close.
We took Kitty out on his leash to show him around, and he didn't like it too much. But I got some awesome pictures which I will be sure to post when I get home. Right now we are in Texas on the I-10, and it takes us through the longest part of the state. Gah. We got to drive through El Paso and we think we saw Mexico. And there are tons of Border Patrol cars everywhere, and we went through an inspection station. It's pretty awesome since we have nothing to hide, so we can just enjoy it. We are on our way to New Orleans right now, this load is a multi drop load so they take part of it there and we continue partially loaded to... Florida! Some random place is our first stop, then we head down to West Palm Beach! We will be driving by Melbourne, where my grandparents live, so we are going to drop by and give them a Christmas heart attack. Not really, but I'm so excited! Then off to Palm Beach. We can't wait to show kitty the beach- it should be interesting.
Everything is good, we are good, we miss family though. It's getting closer to the time for me to go through the training class, I'm nervous but excited!
Until next time,
Lola, Rick, and Kitty
Ahh.
I love Arizona. I was born there, and lived there the first 9 years of my life. If I had the chance I would move back there in a heartbeat. I love it. Rick's never seen a saguaro (sp?) cactus in person before, so I made sure to show him one. Kitty tried to rub up against it but luckily didn't get too close.
We took Kitty out on his leash to show him around, and he didn't like it too much. But I got some awesome pictures which I will be sure to post when I get home. Right now we are in Texas on the I-10, and it takes us through the longest part of the state. Gah. We got to drive through El Paso and we think we saw Mexico. And there are tons of Border Patrol cars everywhere, and we went through an inspection station. It's pretty awesome since we have nothing to hide, so we can just enjoy it. We are on our way to New Orleans right now, this load is a multi drop load so they take part of it there and we continue partially loaded to... Florida! Some random place is our first stop, then we head down to West Palm Beach! We will be driving by Melbourne, where my grandparents live, so we are going to drop by and give them a Christmas heart attack. Not really, but I'm so excited! Then off to Palm Beach. We can't wait to show kitty the beach- it should be interesting.
Everything is good, we are good, we miss family though. It's getting closer to the time for me to go through the training class, I'm nervous but excited!
Until next time,
Lola, Rick, and Kitty
Thursday, December 9, 2010
What a REAL Winter Feels Like...
It sucks. It freezes every bit of you off. Even kitty stays away from the doors when we open them, smart bastard. We thought Utah winters were bad.
HA!
In Illinois, we spent the day waiting to be unloaded (which happens a lot lately (-_-) ) and it was 5 degrees. As if that's not enough of a 'holy shit' moment already, wind chill brought it down to -14 degrees.
'Say what?' You ask. 'You heard me' is my reply.
Holy shitness. Boyyy did that wind make it cold! Even during the day! Argh. We had spent the previous half week in awesome Laredo, Texas where there were palm trees and it was 70 the whole time we were there. Nights were like 60. When we went straight to Illinois from there, it was a very cold slap in the groin. Yes, it hurt that bad. Yikes.
So we've been tooling around Illinois, Ohio, and now we are in Iowa. I wish they would send us back south, but nooo, they want us to freeze to death. We usually sleep with the truck off, but there is this thing trucks have where it turns on randomly to charge the batteries, and we can set it up to turn on when the truck gets too cold. We've tried sleeping without it, but it gets just sooo cold. Aargh.
Kitty has adapted so well to being in the truck. Now he mostly sleeps either on the top bunk, the floor by my feet, or up in one of the cupboards. When I get up to do stuff in the back, he also steals my chair, the little thief :) he spends most of his time being freaking cute, something he is great at. I'm so glad we got to bring him!
Speaking of cats, we saw the fattest cat in Morris, Illinois! Most people wouldn't know about him, because he belongs to the Adult Video store manager. The cat lives in the store, and it's good because itms a 24 hour store. We talked to the manager for like 2 hours about his animals, religion, and farm life. He saw that we were from Utah and asked about polygamy, it was funny. We are going to start telling people I'm Rick's third wife and that he switches us out when they direct him home >:) it's awesome. He was nice and we told him we will probably visit him again just to see his awesome cat. The cat loved me because he prefers women :)
So we just got our load details and we are going to my home state, Arizona! I'm so excited!! :) And it's getting closer to me getting my CDL, I'm so nervous! Aaah!
Until next time,
Rick, Lola, and Kitty
HA!
In Illinois, we spent the day waiting to be unloaded (which happens a lot lately (-_-) ) and it was 5 degrees. As if that's not enough of a 'holy shit' moment already, wind chill brought it down to -14 degrees.
'Say what?' You ask. 'You heard me' is my reply.
Holy shitness. Boyyy did that wind make it cold! Even during the day! Argh. We had spent the previous half week in awesome Laredo, Texas where there were palm trees and it was 70 the whole time we were there. Nights were like 60. When we went straight to Illinois from there, it was a very cold slap in the groin. Yes, it hurt that bad. Yikes.
So we've been tooling around Illinois, Ohio, and now we are in Iowa. I wish they would send us back south, but nooo, they want us to freeze to death. We usually sleep with the truck off, but there is this thing trucks have where it turns on randomly to charge the batteries, and we can set it up to turn on when the truck gets too cold. We've tried sleeping without it, but it gets just sooo cold. Aargh.
Kitty has adapted so well to being in the truck. Now he mostly sleeps either on the top bunk, the floor by my feet, or up in one of the cupboards. When I get up to do stuff in the back, he also steals my chair, the little thief :) he spends most of his time being freaking cute, something he is great at. I'm so glad we got to bring him!
Speaking of cats, we saw the fattest cat in Morris, Illinois! Most people wouldn't know about him, because he belongs to the Adult Video store manager. The cat lives in the store, and it's good because itms a 24 hour store. We talked to the manager for like 2 hours about his animals, religion, and farm life. He saw that we were from Utah and asked about polygamy, it was funny. We are going to start telling people I'm Rick's third wife and that he switches us out when they direct him home >:) it's awesome. He was nice and we told him we will probably visit him again just to see his awesome cat. The cat loved me because he prefers women :)
So we just got our load details and we are going to my home state, Arizona! I'm so excited!! :) And it's getting closer to me getting my CDL, I'm so nervous! Aaah!
Until next time,
Rick, Lola, and Kitty
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