The last post was Jan, 22 and then I was home for a week. It was so great to see family, friends, and church family! This makes the 2nd welcome at church that our Pastor, Spencer, has mentioned us; first was the Sunday after we were married and we still made it to chruch, and then two weekends ago when we surprised him by sitting in the pew at 8 a.m. Lol.
The past week has been busy in central US. Mostly industries trying to get parts shipped before more
s-n-o-w came. I dare not to say the actual word. Blah.
Where We've Been
- Feb. 2
- Pick up load in Troy, MO @ 11:00 a.m. drive 558 miles to Toyota plant in Buffalo, West Virginia and deliver @ 1:47 a.m. 2/3.
- Feb. 3
- Drive from West Virginia to Logan, Ohio and pick up load @ 6:41 a.m., drive 241 miles to Ford Motor Company in Louisville, KY to deliver @ 12:00 -noon.
- Pick up another load in Glasgow, KY of newspaper inserts @ 8:00 p.m. and deliver to 4 different places in Iowa. This place was slow as blue blazes, but it printed magazines like Play Boy, National Inquirer, and Shape. I at least wanted to get next month's Shape issue! By the way, this was not a small load -it was 3,000 pounds of newspaper inserts! See below info. that I e-mailed to a couple of you. . .
- Delivered final newspaper load @ 3:10 p.m. on 2/4, 685 miles later.
- Feb. 5
- Drive from Cedar Rapids, Iowa to Milwaukee, WI. Pick up load at 12:00 midnight, drive 377 miles to deliver load in Cincinatti, OH by 11:00 a.m. the same day.
- Drive to Hebron, KY to pick up next load by 3:00 on the same Feb. 5, drive half way to our destination for Monday.
- Feb. 6
- Believe it or not, Michael and I got to work out at the YMCA, go grocery shopping, do our laundry, catch up on some much needed sleep AND watch the super bowl. Way to go Green Bay!
- http://www.youtube.com/superbowl
- Pepsi -Max "Love Hurts"
- Dorito's "House Sitting"
- Dorito's ""Pug Attack"
- Today, Feb. 7 -lots to do for a Monday!
- Deliver load from Sat. to Bluffton, OH by 5:30 a.m.,
- Drive to Mansfield, OH 100 some odd miles away to get our next load at 8:00 a.m. then drive 75 mini miles to deliver to the Honda Research and Development center in Raymond, OH. I'm telling you, this place was grand and huge! It's employees were mostly Japanese! I only saw two caucasions going in to work! Not to stereotype, but some things you just notice... delivered load by 10:30 a.m.
- Drive 58 miles to Groveport, OH to pick up load @ 12:00 noon, wait over an hour only to find out this was a dry-run and dispatch screwed up and we weren't supposed to even go there! GRRR.
- So we go to the Frieghtliner dealership to pick up a new shock for the driver's seat, since I can barely drive and keep my foot on the gas without my chair trying to throw me thru the roof! Buy the $36 part and immediately get dispatched to a new load. . .
- Drive 175 miles to Youngstown, OH in north Ohio (we had been in West-Central) to pick up our new load @ 11:00 p.m. and deliver to Geneva, NY (294 miles) by 6 a.m. in the morning.
- Liz, we will be going thru Erie PA for the 4th time!
So, knowing me you all know that I name things that are dear to me.
- Nissan Exterra was lovingly known as Chevy
- My neon is named Dolly
- My neighbor's cat (although oficially named Nimbus) I called Woofie
- My amarylis flowers are my Triplettes -spelled exactly this way.
- My wave petunia was named Rapunzel (she passed away in October)
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Misc. thoughts along the journey . . . e-mail to Liz (condensed version). . .
I have a lot to catch up on in my blogs... We stayed in St. Louis 'til Tues. Then between then and now we have been in WV, OH, KY. IA.
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> We passed the place that makes Rocky boots, went thru the home of John Deere, Moline, on our way to deliver to 4 Iowa cities (Davenport. Clinton, Dubuque, and Cedar Rapids). I enjoyed Dubuque - very neat old town with great personality! I'll put some pics on my blog. Oh, we also went by the place that makes the little tree car refreshers - I thought those were made in China -wink! The Iowa stops were delivering newspaper inserts. We picked up the load @ Glasgow KY @ RR Donnelley where they also print Shape mag and National Inquirer (playboy was being printed too). I wanted to at least grab next month's Shape hot off the press! Oh well...
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> Believe it or not, the weather is great - blue skies and no snow til we got to IL and IA.
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Fun Pictures from the Road
I love novelty coffee cups!
Too cute! This is a salt and pepper shaker set at a Michigan Cracker Barrel.
Clinton, Iowa -the story of every small town in America this winter -S.N.O.W.
Clinton, Iowa -"If the Lord's willing, and the parking lot don't cave in!" Is what members of this Baptist Church would be saying!
In way too deep. . .
Clinton, Iowa -The worst dock to back into- It was diagonal, and to get to it, we had to back all the way down a one-way street, turn a sharp corner backward into an alley, and then back in at a diagonal. Thank God for Michael!
Dubuque, IA Museum of Art -a tribute to Grant Wood's American Gothic painting
check out this website for cool info. . .
Last but certainly, not least. . . The Flying Wiener --what else do I need to say? YES!
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