It’s been a busy week of driving. We did get to that election party as we’d hoped but disappointment abounded when the majority of Nevadans didn’t agree with our choice for senator. Otherwise we’re happy with most of the results.
It was back on the road the following day, and after doing what I refer to as some necessary ‘grunt work’ in LA moving trailers from one parking lot to another, we hooked up our load and started for New York. It did seem like a long ride and I suppose at 2900 miles, it’s one of the longest a truck driver can do. We left early Friday morning and arrived at our destination Monday afternoon. Highlights of the trip included a little breakdown in the middle-of-nowhere Arizona which was quickly remedied with a little fuel, dinner at a favorite BBQ joint in Amarillo, and a stop at our storage trailer in Englewood, Ohio where all our earthly belongings will stay until further notice. It’s nice to be able to drop off an item or two we may pick up during our travels or grab something we may need from there. It’s like going shopping but it’s it is all your own stuff and it seems new since we haven’t seen it in quite awhile.
It will be a couple days of relaxation here in the Hudson River Valley when on Friday we are going to do a little run down into the heart of New York City again. Apparently there is a Victoria Secrets show that is finishing up and we’ll take one of many trailers full of equipment back from whence it came in Connecticut before heading down to Greenville, South Carolina for the weekend. We keep hearing of unseasonably warm temps west of here but so far, we’re not seeing them. There is actually quite a bit of color still left in the trees here in New York. It looks like fall but feels like winter.
I take so many pictures from the driver's seat it's not even funny. Most of them I end up deleting when they're out of focus, too many bugs on the windshield, crooked from trying to take a shot too quickly before i pass it, etc... We've been up and down these roads so many times but I can still find things that interest me, or I maybe I haven't seen before, or maybe just look extraordinary in a different light of day. That's what these pictures are this week... just things I see from my office window.... a Texas field of cotton ready to be picked, trees that have been so windblown in Oklahoma that even on this rare calm day they still lean from just naturally growing that way, one of many windmills- some working but most aren't- that dot the plains, and an Illinois fisherman relaxing on a lake while truck drivers go by and take pictures of them. Just another day in the life of a truck driver!
It was back on the road the following day, and after doing what I refer to as some necessary ‘grunt work’ in LA moving trailers from one parking lot to another, we hooked up our load and started for New York. It did seem like a long ride and I suppose at 2900 miles, it’s one of the longest a truck driver can do. We left early Friday morning and arrived at our destination Monday afternoon. Highlights of the trip included a little breakdown in the middle-of-nowhere Arizona which was quickly remedied with a little fuel, dinner at a favorite BBQ joint in Amarillo, and a stop at our storage trailer in Englewood, Ohio where all our earthly belongings will stay until further notice. It’s nice to be able to drop off an item or two we may pick up during our travels or grab something we may need from there. It’s like going shopping but it’s it is all your own stuff and it seems new since we haven’t seen it in quite awhile.
It will be a couple days of relaxation here in the Hudson River Valley when on Friday we are going to do a little run down into the heart of New York City again. Apparently there is a Victoria Secrets show that is finishing up and we’ll take one of many trailers full of equipment back from whence it came in Connecticut before heading down to Greenville, South Carolina for the weekend. We keep hearing of unseasonably warm temps west of here but so far, we’re not seeing them. There is actually quite a bit of color still left in the trees here in New York. It looks like fall but feels like winter.
I take so many pictures from the driver's seat it's not even funny. Most of them I end up deleting when they're out of focus, too many bugs on the windshield, crooked from trying to take a shot too quickly before i pass it, etc... We've been up and down these roads so many times but I can still find things that interest me, or I maybe I haven't seen before, or maybe just look extraordinary in a different light of day. That's what these pictures are this week... just things I see from my office window.... a Texas field of cotton ready to be picked, trees that have been so windblown in Oklahoma that even on this rare calm day they still lean from just naturally growing that way, one of many windmills- some working but most aren't- that dot the plains, and an Illinois fisherman relaxing on a lake while truck drivers go by and take pictures of them. Just another day in the life of a truck driver!
Texas cotton fields
Windblown Oklahoma
Deserted windmill on the old Route 66
A lone Illinois fisherman