Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Where's Daddy?

So, my wife has started sending me pictures of my son in different places with the title "Where's Johnny?"  I think she's only stumped me one time- the Macy's dressing room.  It's fun to see where they are and to get pictures of him. 

Well, I sent my wife this picture yesterday with the question "Where's Daddy?"



Can you believe she couldn't figure it out? 

PS- It's somewhere in Oregon along the Snake River.

Flat tire on a big scale

Bang!
Me: "What was that sound?"
Mentor: "We blew out a tire.  No biggie."
I guess when you have eighteen, losing one isn't too big of a deal.

Updating

Since I last posted, I've been all over the country.

Loads to IL, TX, OH, MI, OH again, WA, other side of WA, CA and now maybe FL.

Have some more states to add to the list, but I need to check my sources first.

Total days away from home: 38
Total states: 36
Total miles: somewhere around 20,000

Friday, September 16, 2011

Chicken, anyone?

Now I'm in Kentucky delivering merchandise. It took us about a day and a half to get here, team driving. I've now been through OK, MO & KY.

Total days away from home: 24
Total states: 30

Home for a few days

I spent Sunday, Monday and Tuesday at home. It was nice to be at home again, even if it was only for a few days.

Saturday, September 10, 2011

Heading home

After waiting over 24 hours for a load out of Houston, my mentor decided for us to "dead head" it to Phoenix. No complaints from me. If everything goes well, I should be at home, taking a shower, washing clothes and Febrezing the death out of everything that was in the truck by lunchtime tomorrow.

This will add NM to the list.

Total days away from home: 22
Total states: 26

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

How much fuel?

Katie was complaining to me about having to put $50 of fuel in her car today. She didn't feel so bad after I told her these facts.

  • It cost almost $900 to fill up the truck yesterday.
  • That was about 220 gallons (the truck has two 120 gallon tanks).
  • It took 20 minutes.
  • We will need more fuel in about two days.

More merchandise

We're now on a way to Houston to deliver some merchandise. It's not due until Friday, so we're taking our sweet time getting there. These will be numbers once we get there, add MS, AL, LA and TX.

Total days away from home: 21
Total states: 25
Total miles: 4000

Truck Stop Stories

We saw a lot of cops at our truck stop earlier this week. The best one was when a guy called the cops because he'd given a guy $100 for some marijuana and the dealer gave him herbs. For some reason this guy thought the cops would care that he got cheated out of some drugs.

Monday, September 5, 2011

Small run today

We're heading to Georgia to drop off some merchandise. Should be there in a few hours. Boy, do I have some truck stop stories to share in my next post!!!

Total days away from home: 17
Total states: 14