It’s been a lazy month as far as truck driving goes. We have actually completed only one run in the month of August – from Louisville to Austin. We were all set to do more work right after that but the opportunity came up to finally buy the truck we’d been waiting for. This truck belonged to some friends of ours who were buying a brand new one. It was nice for us knowing they had taken such good care of their old truck and since they work for the same company, we knew it hadn’t carried much heavy freight either. We had hoped that the timing would work out to buy it during our two week Minnesota vacation but due to issues beyond our control, it just so happened that from Austin, we headed straight to the Volvo dealership in Des Moines to ink the deal. It’s a bigger truck but has a completely different layout than our last truck so we had no idea where to put anything and the move was way more difficult than we expected. We had become packrats and after more than three years of driving the green truck, we had accumulated quite a load just on the top bunk – or attic as we like to call it. The move to a new truck was good from the standpoint that we were forced to take inventory and prioritize what exactly we really need to take with us. The good news is in our new truck, we literally have everything including a kitchen sink! There is a bathroom and shower, surround sound for the TV, and a back door with a screen door too. It’s quickly becoming our new home.
We’ve taken the past week off in northern Indiana where these extra large truck sleepers are built. It was there we had them install a larger television set and a new refrigerator. We especially enjoyed the quaint little town of Shipshewana which is a blend of lots of Amish folks and farms being visited by lots of tourists stopping in to buy their wares. It was so relaxing to leave the screen door open and hear only the crickets in the nearby cornfields sing us to sleep. It was interesting to watch an Amish farmer take all day to cut the hay in the field with his team of horses while one farm over the hay bales were being spit out the back of the baler one right after the other. We really enjoyed the local restaurants which seemed like good home cooking to us truck drivers. It’s a place I’d definitely love to go back to and we highly recommend it. Just watch out for all the horse and buggies and people on bicycles traversing the shoulder of all the roads.
This weekend we will be back in Columbus, Ohio picking up “Wicked” and then up to Boston by Tuesday. Now that we have a new truck, we’d better get back to work so we can pay for it!
We’ve taken the past week off in northern Indiana where these extra large truck sleepers are built. It was there we had them install a larger television set and a new refrigerator. We especially enjoyed the quaint little town of Shipshewana which is a blend of lots of Amish folks and farms being visited by lots of tourists stopping in to buy their wares. It was so relaxing to leave the screen door open and hear only the crickets in the nearby cornfields sing us to sleep. It was interesting to watch an Amish farmer take all day to cut the hay in the field with his team of horses while one farm over the hay bales were being spit out the back of the baler one right after the other. We really enjoyed the local restaurants which seemed like good home cooking to us truck drivers. It’s a place I’d definitely love to go back to and we highly recommend it. Just watch out for all the horse and buggies and people on bicycles traversing the shoulder of all the roads.
This weekend we will be back in Columbus, Ohio picking up “Wicked” and then up to Boston by Tuesday. Now that we have a new truck, we’d better get back to work so we can pay for it!