Peaches and 8 degree Weather

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