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
Friday, January 14, 2011
Hello All!
Well.
We finally made it home! And it was great seeing everyone but honestly, the time went by way too fast. We had so much shit to do and not enough time to do it.
Such is a truckers life I suppose.
So we hit the road again yesterday. I must say, I love it. I love to see new things. It feels less stressful out here, honestly. Out here it's just work. eat. sleep. play occasionally. When we go back home we stress about forgetting things. Not having enough time to spend with everyone. Worrying about getting things done in a short amount of time. It sucks.
This first load back is to Red Bluff, California. We get to take I-80 west most of the way there, then I-5 the rest of the way. So far it's been pretty warm, Nevada is mostly desert so it's nice. We stayed the night in Wendover because they gave us plenty of time to do this load, there's a place next to the Chevron that's a trucker's lounge, and we got a free shower this morning :)
On the down side, I have the flu now. It's super awesome. Ugh.
Kitty was sulking yesterday when we put him in the truck at first, but now he's his usual self, constantly meowing for food. He's a piggy. A very cute one though.
Well, that's about it for now. Until next time,
Rick, Lola, and Kitty
We finally made it home! And it was great seeing everyone but honestly, the time went by way too fast. We had so much shit to do and not enough time to do it.
Such is a truckers life I suppose.
So we hit the road again yesterday. I must say, I love it. I love to see new things. It feels less stressful out here, honestly. Out here it's just work. eat. sleep. play occasionally. When we go back home we stress about forgetting things. Not having enough time to spend with everyone. Worrying about getting things done in a short amount of time. It sucks.
This first load back is to Red Bluff, California. We get to take I-80 west most of the way there, then I-5 the rest of the way. So far it's been pretty warm, Nevada is mostly desert so it's nice. We stayed the night in Wendover because they gave us plenty of time to do this load, there's a place next to the Chevron that's a trucker's lounge, and we got a free shower this morning :)
On the down side, I have the flu now. It's super awesome. Ugh.
Kitty was sulking yesterday when we put him in the truck at first, but now he's his usual self, constantly meowing for food. He's a piggy. A very cute one though.
Well, that's about it for now. Until next time,
Rick, Lola, and Kitty
Pictures!
Here are some pictures, I hope y'all enjoy them :)
Massillon, Ohio. These are some of the roads we go on!
Awesome clouds in Florida
Tampa I think
Young people love! Me and Jessie on the beach :)
Old people love :) My grandparents in Gatorland
Going up I-70 in Colorado, trying to get home. It likes to blizzard every time we try to go home!
Trying to steal my chair, the turd
Kitty being scared, his first time in the truck
Sunset somewhere on the East Side
Cemetary in Pennsylvania
Kitty watching the road in front of us. In Maryland on the little island across the Chesapeake Bay
Rich people's marina and condo's
Maryland also
Maryland Marina
More of the Chesapeake Bay
Sunrise in Maryland, this is the Chesapeake Bay bridge.
Sunrise in somewhere, I think Ohio still.
I think this is one of the big cities in Ohio. Don't remember which one though :-/
Kitty being cute on the bed
Kitty on the dash, his fave spot
Massillon, Ohio. These are some of the roads we go on!
Awesome clouds in Florida
Tampa I think
Young people love! Me and Jessie on the beach :)
Old people love :) My grandparents in Gatorland
Going up I-70 in Colorado, trying to get home. It likes to blizzard every time we try to go home!
Trying to steal my chair, the turd
Kitty being scared, his first time in the truck
Sunset somewhere on the East Side
Cemetary in Pennsylvania
Kitty watching the road in front of us. In Maryland on the little island across the Chesapeake Bay
Rich people's marina and condo's
Maryland also
Maryland Marina
More of the Chesapeake Bay
Sunrise in Maryland, this is the Chesapeake Bay bridge.
Sunrise in somewhere, I think Ohio still.
I think this is one of the big cities in Ohio. Don't remember which one though :-/
Kitty being cute on the bed
Kitty on the dash, his fave spot
Friday, December 31, 2010
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
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 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
Monday, November 29, 2010
Dance With the Devil
So. We finally got routed home! It was a headache and a half for everyone involved, but it finally happened, and in time for Thanksgiving too! We were so relieved to be home and just crash. We planned it so one day was with one family, one with the other, and one with Rick's friend. We hardly slept either, we wanted to enjoy being home as much as possible. Rick got the new Call of Duty and played it alot, he loves it. I'm more of a Halo fan so I didn't.
We had saved our laundry for a while because we knew we were going home, so I did a mountain of laundry the first night in. Since we were only staying three days, I didn't bother putting it away, so the basement was pretty messy. Since we are used to living in a small space, we spend most of our home time in the bedroom anyway. Kitty was so happy to see us, I cried when we first saw him because it had just been way too long. He didnt quite know what to do when he saw us, and he was still sad while we were there. It broke my heart. I'm so glad we got to bring him with us!
All in all, being home was nice just to see people, but we couldn't relax. We knew we would be leaving soon so it wasn't all that fabulous. Honestly now, the truck is our home. We feel more comfortable being out on the road than being at home. It's our life now, and we love it.
Now. Kitty. We were so worried about bringing him because we thought he wouldn't be able to handle it. When we left, it was really sudden and we just threw him in the truck and left. At first he didn't like it of course, mostly because his first car ride was to get his balls chopped off... he does this thing where he pants like a dog but he looks like one of those taxidermy bobcats because of his fangs, and it's really sad but we laugh because it looks so freaking funny. He did that for a while, then explored the truck, and meowed constantly like a siren. That was the first day. The second day he was still edgy but started to mellow out, and now, he just sleeps most of the time. We are so surprised and relieved that he's taking it so well now :) now we are a truckin family! He has a harness and leash in case he wants to go outside, and he hates that harness with a passion, I have to get a picture of it. We took him out once but it was super windy and the truck's air brakes went off so he got scared, so most of the time he just sleeps when we leave the truck. Every time Rick gets out though he goes on the driver's seat and looks out the window, meowing. He is such a daddy's boy.
I have to say, all in all, I love this trucking thing. We get to be together all the time, we are always moving and seeing new places, and getting paid to do it.
Life is good.
Until next time,
Lola, Rick, and Kitty
We had saved our laundry for a while because we knew we were going home, so I did a mountain of laundry the first night in. Since we were only staying three days, I didn't bother putting it away, so the basement was pretty messy. Since we are used to living in a small space, we spend most of our home time in the bedroom anyway. Kitty was so happy to see us, I cried when we first saw him because it had just been way too long. He didnt quite know what to do when he saw us, and he was still sad while we were there. It broke my heart. I'm so glad we got to bring him with us!
All in all, being home was nice just to see people, but we couldn't relax. We knew we would be leaving soon so it wasn't all that fabulous. Honestly now, the truck is our home. We feel more comfortable being out on the road than being at home. It's our life now, and we love it.
Now. Kitty. We were so worried about bringing him because we thought he wouldn't be able to handle it. When we left, it was really sudden and we just threw him in the truck and left. At first he didn't like it of course, mostly because his first car ride was to get his balls chopped off... he does this thing where he pants like a dog but he looks like one of those taxidermy bobcats because of his fangs, and it's really sad but we laugh because it looks so freaking funny. He did that for a while, then explored the truck, and meowed constantly like a siren. That was the first day. The second day he was still edgy but started to mellow out, and now, he just sleeps most of the time. We are so surprised and relieved that he's taking it so well now :) now we are a truckin family! He has a harness and leash in case he wants to go outside, and he hates that harness with a passion, I have to get a picture of it. We took him out once but it was super windy and the truck's air brakes went off so he got scared, so most of the time he just sleeps when we leave the truck. Every time Rick gets out though he goes on the driver's seat and looks out the window, meowing. He is such a daddy's boy.
I have to say, all in all, I love this trucking thing. We get to be together all the time, we are always moving and seeing new places, and getting paid to do it.
Life is good.
Until next time,
Lola, Rick, and Kitty
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Woot!
Well I figured out, I can upload pictures from my phone to the blog! But it takes forever so I've been putting it off. I know I mostly sit while Rick is driving, but sometimes I work on my stories, download songs from my phone, make food, clean the truck, and space out, so it doesn't leave me much time to do anything else. Hee.
Today I started reading Rick's CDL books to kind of prepare to take the class. We've been talking about me taking the class in the spring, then January, and now I might take it when we get routed home. We will see...
In the meantime, we are supposed to be sleeping, but are too busy being giggly to fall asleep right away. It's great.
Safety tip day is tomorrow possibly, we shall see...
Until then, peace out!
Lola and Rick
Today I started reading Rick's CDL books to kind of prepare to take the class. We've been talking about me taking the class in the spring, then January, and now I might take it when we get routed home. We will see...
In the meantime, we are supposed to be sleeping, but are too busy being giggly to fall asleep right away. It's great.
Safety tip day is tomorrow possibly, we shall see...
Until then, peace out!
Lola and Rick
Well, Shit.
So.
Rick and I have been out for five weeks and a day now without going through or even near home. It's time for us to go home and visit the fams, nab kitty, do a shit-ton of laundry, and relax for a few days. So last week we sent a request for a day off. They had to have 9 days in advance so we just planned to have three days off which happened to be Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Well today is Thursday, and where are we now? Still in Illinois, taking a load to- Texas.
Um, last I checked we lived in Utah...
They supposedly don't have any loads heading to Salt Lake City right now. Wasn't that the point of us sending in that request 9 days in advance????
And to add insult to injury, we would have had a load taking us to Sarasota, Florida a few days ago. I would have been able to see my grandparents most likely. But no. No grandparents, no family, no kitty.
So if a storm hits Salt Lake coming from the East to the West side, that would be my frustration with the whole clusterfuck here making it's way to the company, which happens to be based in Salt Lake.
I guess there's a tiny bit of consolation; we ran out of oil so Rick had to use him company card to buy some. It was expensive. Usually we get oil at the company's terminal for free but ha they had to pay for this stuff. Suckas!
I'm gonna make a post about winter safety and some driving tips, Rick thinks it's stuff people should know and I agree. So it will be a post we worked on together!
Until next time,
Lola and Rick
Rick and I have been out for five weeks and a day now without going through or even near home. It's time for us to go home and visit the fams, nab kitty, do a shit-ton of laundry, and relax for a few days. So last week we sent a request for a day off. They had to have 9 days in advance so we just planned to have three days off which happened to be Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Well today is Thursday, and where are we now? Still in Illinois, taking a load to- Texas.
Um, last I checked we lived in Utah...
They supposedly don't have any loads heading to Salt Lake City right now. Wasn't that the point of us sending in that request 9 days in advance????
And to add insult to injury, we would have had a load taking us to Sarasota, Florida a few days ago. I would have been able to see my grandparents most likely. But no. No grandparents, no family, no kitty.
So if a storm hits Salt Lake coming from the East to the West side, that would be my frustration with the whole clusterfuck here making it's way to the company, which happens to be based in Salt Lake.
I guess there's a tiny bit of consolation; we ran out of oil so Rick had to use him company card to buy some. It was expensive. Usually we get oil at the company's terminal for free but ha they had to pay for this stuff. Suckas!
I'm gonna make a post about winter safety and some driving tips, Rick thinks it's stuff people should know and I agree. So it will be a post we worked on together!
Until next time,
Lola and Rick
Saturday, November 13, 2010
The Windiest City Of Them All...
Ahh Chicago.
I so love it.
Yes, the cold is not my favorite, but maybe that could change. It was so invigorating. Walking through real downtowns is one of my favorite things to do. Seattle has been my favorite up until today. If I could live and work in an apartment in a big downtown, I would be content. Traveling is the next best thing though, so I'm still pretty happy :)
Rick has a fascination with trains, and so this time we went on the CTA. It's a monorail and a subway, and pretty cool. It kicks the Trax's ass to the moon. We went downtown, took some awesome pictures, and walked around. Can I just say, people are so nice here! We didn't have enough cash for a round trip fare, and we dont have the pin number yet for his card, so we couldn't get cash. The ticket people had us buy the one way card, and let us on the train for free! And when we got downtown, a taxi driver gave us directions to a pizza place called Gino's East for some Chicago pizza. I guess it's a famous place, alot of celebrities eat there. It was so cool! And very yummy.
Of course there were some scary people, but it wouldn't be a big city without them. And they weren't that scary. All in all, it was a pretty awesome day :)
Peace out for now
Lola and Rick
I so love it.
Yes, the cold is not my favorite, but maybe that could change. It was so invigorating. Walking through real downtowns is one of my favorite things to do. Seattle has been my favorite up until today. If I could live and work in an apartment in a big downtown, I would be content. Traveling is the next best thing though, so I'm still pretty happy :)
Rick has a fascination with trains, and so this time we went on the CTA. It's a monorail and a subway, and pretty cool. It kicks the Trax's ass to the moon. We went downtown, took some awesome pictures, and walked around. Can I just say, people are so nice here! We didn't have enough cash for a round trip fare, and we dont have the pin number yet for his card, so we couldn't get cash. The ticket people had us buy the one way card, and let us on the train for free! And when we got downtown, a taxi driver gave us directions to a pizza place called Gino's East for some Chicago pizza. I guess it's a famous place, alot of celebrities eat there. It was so cool! And very yummy.
Of course there were some scary people, but it wouldn't be a big city without them. And they weren't that scary. All in all, it was a pretty awesome day :)
Peace out for now
Lola and Rick
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Updates continued...
Sorry I didn't finish the last post all the way. We got internet put back on our phones! So now I can blog whenever I want! I haven't figured out how to upload pictures on it yet, hopefully this phone will let me. We shall see.
So we put in a request for two days off, I'm super excited! It might not happen but I'm hoping it does. We are going to get kitty, and visit both the families, probably go on a date too :) you have to put a request for time off 9 days prior to the actual day you want off so they can route you to home. So far our load now is to Minnesota, and then going back to Ohio :( rawr. We usually dont get our new load info until the day before the current load is delivered, which kinda sucks but it would get confusing keeping track of the different loads. Oh well.
Chicago is amazing! We've been around it a zillion times, but today we got to go almost through it. The buildings were so cool, the traffic sucked, and the landing planes were awesome. We want to come back for a vacation so we can explore and ride the monorail and shiz. :)
Peace out for now,
Lola and Rick
So we put in a request for two days off, I'm super excited! It might not happen but I'm hoping it does. We are going to get kitty, and visit both the families, probably go on a date too :) you have to put a request for time off 9 days prior to the actual day you want off so they can route you to home. So far our load now is to Minnesota, and then going back to Ohio :( rawr. We usually dont get our new load info until the day before the current load is delivered, which kinda sucks but it would get confusing keeping track of the different loads. Oh well.
Chicago is amazing! We've been around it a zillion times, but today we got to go almost through it. The buildings were so cool, the traffic sucked, and the landing planes were awesome. We want to come back for a vacation so we can explore and ride the monorail and shiz. :)
Peace out for now,
Lola and Rick
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Updates!
Hi y'all!
Today marks our fourth week being out on the road and not being home at all! Time's seriously been flying by, it really does not feel like it's been four weeks. That's a good thing though!
Problem is, we miss our baby. It's been hard to hear that he's been moping around and really sad that we aren't there. Rick and I are so tightly bonded to him and each other that it just doesn't work when we are separated. So we are going to bring him with us. Yay! We miss our families too, so we are taking a weekend off soon to visit and get Kitty. The closest we have gotten to Utah recently was Kansas and Nebraska; mostly we've been ripping up the East Coast.
Before I go to bed, I just have to say we love the Ohio Turnpike! Free showers, laundry is only $1.50 for each the washer and dryer (compared with $2 each!) and it goes across the whole state on I-80. Whooo!
Peace out,
Lola
Today marks our fourth week being out on the road and not being home at all! Time's seriously been flying by, it really does not feel like it's been four weeks. That's a good thing though!
Problem is, we miss our baby. It's been hard to hear that he's been moping around and really sad that we aren't there. Rick and I are so tightly bonded to him and each other that it just doesn't work when we are separated. So we are going to bring him with us. Yay! We miss our families too, so we are taking a weekend off soon to visit and get Kitty. The closest we have gotten to Utah recently was Kansas and Nebraska; mostly we've been ripping up the East Coast.
Before I go to bed, I just have to say we love the Ohio Turnpike! Free showers, laundry is only $1.50 for each the washer and dryer (compared with $2 each!) and it goes across the whole state on I-80. Whooo!
Peace out,
Lola
Sunday, October 31, 2010
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