Saturday, February 19, 2011
Saturday, February 12, 2011
We're Going To Jersey Shore, Bitch!
The title is from the show, Jersey Shore, for those of you who don't watch mind numbing crap (like me, ha). Moving on.
We've been on the West Coast for a while, and it's been fun. I loved Cali, even though the stupid flu took over my body for a week. Then we got to be home for two days. Then we got sent to Oregon, tooled around there for a few days, went to Washington twice, then back to Utah. Unfortunately we didn't go to the part of Washington where my friend lives :( I was sad. We only got to be home for two hours, then were off to Pennsylvania! A 2000 plus mile load, which is awesome.
BUT. After driving through the Wyoming blizzard (Wyoming sucks by the way) (with whiteouts, wind, and us almost having to pull over), almost freezing to death in Nebraska (our heater in the back shit out on us again during the night, it was about -3 degrees out), skipping across Iowa, and freezing our asses off in Minooka Illinois (where even running the truck couldn't keep up with the -12 outside) we had to switch trailers with a team driving truck so they could make the PA load on time. When we picked it up, it was late. NOT OUR FAULT because we were under a load already and they knew that. Grr. Dumb, I tell you.
Anyways. This trailer we took was heading back to SLC. And it has been hard to pick our groove up when we're going home all the time. It makes it hard to leave everything behind. Argh. Anyways.
Here comes the weekend. Different dispatch. We are almost to Wyoming, only ten hours away from SLC, and they have us drop our trailer (which is yogurt, so, relax, it wont go bad :)) in a place called Ogallala, Nebraska (I swear I'm not jerking your chain, that's the actual name! Tee hee) and pick up a meat trailer that's supposed to be in New Jersey by Valentine's Day. How romantic, right? And it says the samples in the trailer have E Coli, so my guess is they are sending it to New Jersey to be tested. Or they're gonna poison the cast of Jersey Shore, I'm not sure. Hee.
It's been awesome, experiencing hell freezing over. Our record is -16, yippee! And now for some reason a warm front is taking over. Seriously? You know it's too cold out when your heater even says "fuck this, I quit!" Am I right? But now it's a balmy 32 out, yay.
We are still going strong, haven't wanted to kill each other yet, and he hasn't threatened to leave me stranded at a Pilot somewhere random. It's awesome. We live in this tiny truck, and hardly fight. Probably because it's just us against the rest of the... er... country. :)
Keep warm!
Big Red Truck
We've been on the West Coast for a while, and it's been fun. I loved Cali, even though the stupid flu took over my body for a week. Then we got to be home for two days. Then we got sent to Oregon, tooled around there for a few days, went to Washington twice, then back to Utah. Unfortunately we didn't go to the part of Washington where my friend lives :( I was sad. We only got to be home for two hours, then were off to Pennsylvania! A 2000 plus mile load, which is awesome.
BUT. After driving through the Wyoming blizzard (Wyoming sucks by the way) (with whiteouts, wind, and us almost having to pull over), almost freezing to death in Nebraska (our heater in the back shit out on us again during the night, it was about -3 degrees out), skipping across Iowa, and freezing our asses off in Minooka Illinois (where even running the truck couldn't keep up with the -12 outside) we had to switch trailers with a team driving truck so they could make the PA load on time. When we picked it up, it was late. NOT OUR FAULT because we were under a load already and they knew that. Grr. Dumb, I tell you.
Anyways. This trailer we took was heading back to SLC. And it has been hard to pick our groove up when we're going home all the time. It makes it hard to leave everything behind. Argh. Anyways.
Here comes the weekend. Different dispatch. We are almost to Wyoming, only ten hours away from SLC, and they have us drop our trailer (which is yogurt, so, relax, it wont go bad :)) in a place called Ogallala, Nebraska (I swear I'm not jerking your chain, that's the actual name! Tee hee) and pick up a meat trailer that's supposed to be in New Jersey by Valentine's Day. How romantic, right? And it says the samples in the trailer have E Coli, so my guess is they are sending it to New Jersey to be tested. Or they're gonna poison the cast of Jersey Shore, I'm not sure. Hee.
It's been awesome, experiencing hell freezing over. Our record is -16, yippee! And now for some reason a warm front is taking over. Seriously? You know it's too cold out when your heater even says "fuck this, I quit!" Am I right? But now it's a balmy 32 out, yay.
We are still going strong, haven't wanted to kill each other yet, and he hasn't threatened to leave me stranded at a Pilot somewhere random. It's awesome. We live in this tiny truck, and hardly fight. Probably because it's just us against the rest of the... er... country. :)
Keep warm!
Big Red Truck
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