Many Miles from the Rocky Mtns. to the Boston Harbor

From Salt Lake City to San Antonio  was the last update I submitted. But in the last week, Michael and I have been so busy that we have maybe gotten 4 hours of sleep a night. Not complaining, I still sit with childlike delight in the passenger seat oooing and ahhhing at the various things that I see out the windshield. So here's the nut shell version of where we've been. I'm going to write another blog that will actually be more of a tribute to the marvels of my imagination.

January 16, 2011

• Pick up load in Seguin, TX (outside San Antonio) @ 5:34 p.m.
• Drive, swap drivers and drive some more through the states of Texas, Arkansas, Missouri (Dexter), Illinois, and up to Michigan
• Deliver load on January 17 @ 8:22 p.m. to Woodhaven, MI outside of Detroit

January 18, 2011

• Pick up load in Clinton Township, MI @ 5:00 a.m.
• Drive to the capitol of Michigan, Lansing, and deliver load at 8:30 a.m.
• Pick up next load in Grand Rapids, MI @ 10::30 a.m.
• Drive back toward Detroit (east) and deliver load to Wixom, MI @ 2:30 p.m.
• SLEEP and shower  -yay!

January 19, 2011

• Deadhead from Detroit, MI to Toledo, OH (I love Ohio) -2 hours
• Pick up load in Toledo @ 7:45 a.m.
• Drive $23.70 worth of toll roads through Ohio and Illinois to Glendale Heights
• Deliver load in Glendale Heights, IL @ 3:35 p.m.
• Relax for a few hours
• Pick up load in Des Plaines, IL @ 4:00 p.m.
• Drive through more toll roads in IL, travel through Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North Dakota
• Deliver load to Gwinner, North Dakota to the home  of where Bobcats are  made @ 8:00 a.m. January 20.
• Dead Head to St. Paul Minnesota
• By the way, Missouri is like Florida compared to -22 degree temps in Gwinner and St. Paul.  . . .BRRR.

January 21, 2011

• Pick up load in St. Paul, MN @ 10:00 a.m.
• Drive back East on I -94 (we've now travelled 94 three times)
• Pay the tolls as we go through Wisconsin,  Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and finally Massachusetts all the way to the Boston Harbor.
• So driving all day the 22nd.
• We'll deliver this load at 8:00 a.m. tomorrow morning (Sunday, January 23).

Grand total of miles for the week: 3,955 miles, not counting deadhead. AND we have at least one more trip to go to get back to St. Louis!

Happy Birthday, Dad! I wish I could be there to eat cake with you, I would make you a mayonaise chocolatee cake with chocolate icing!

HOPEFULLY, we will be home to St. Louis next week for a reprieve before we do it all over again for three weeks straight.