Here we are on our way back to Las Vegas to celebrate Chriistmas and New Years. We actually worked all week long for a change and with no repairs! Spent the past week picking up and delivering UPS packages all around the South and mid-Atlantic - back and forth from Louisville, Kentucky. We drove over 5500 miles in total. Now I just have to get home so I can wrap up and send all of my own packages.
We have plans to go about thirty minutes north of the house up to Mt. Charleston. There they have snow and ski slopes. Most importantly, we’re going sledding. We stopped in Gallup, New Mexico on the way home to buy a couple snow boards so that should be a lot of fun. It’s been a few years since I’ve done that. We’re also going to do the usual traditions of baking cookies and the twisted Palenske tradition to see who can make not only the prettiest cookie, but also the ugliest. My little niece, Emma, is going to be fun this year. She’s over four years old now so opening gifts will be a thrill for her. Plus my other niece, Allison is home from college so there. I see lots of family fun ahead.
We will be home until just after New Years. We say our New Years resolution this year is to go back to work. I’ve added up all the days off we’ve had in 2012 and including days off waiting for loads, and days off that we have taken on purpose, we’ve had about one hundred days off. You can see we are definitely not working as hard as we could, or so we think. We say that now but we’ll see how it plays out in the months ahead.
Merry Christmas from these vacationing truckers!
We have plans to go about thirty minutes north of the house up to Mt. Charleston. There they have snow and ski slopes. Most importantly, we’re going sledding. We stopped in Gallup, New Mexico on the way home to buy a couple snow boards so that should be a lot of fun. It’s been a few years since I’ve done that. We’re also going to do the usual traditions of baking cookies and the twisted Palenske tradition to see who can make not only the prettiest cookie, but also the ugliest. My little niece, Emma, is going to be fun this year. She’s over four years old now so opening gifts will be a thrill for her. Plus my other niece, Allison is home from college so there. I see lots of family fun ahead.
We will be home until just after New Years. We say our New Years resolution this year is to go back to work. I’ve added up all the days off we’ve had in 2012 and including days off waiting for loads, and days off that we have taken on purpose, we’ve had about one hundred days off. You can see we are definitely not working as hard as we could, or so we think. We say that now but we’ll see how it plays out in the months ahead.
Merry Christmas from these vacationing truckers!