We were supposed to pick up our load last Monday, on the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. I had a feeling that wasn't going to happen and I wasn't surprised when we got a call that morning telling us it would be Tuesday before this load would be ready for pickup. For an extra $200 for making us wait, we were happy to do just that. It gave us an extra day to play around and get in some extra walking. We were keeping an eye on the weather map and were so happy it didn't work out for us to take anything up to Seattle. Those poor folks were suffering thru some record snows while we were enjoying winter temps in the low 60s in south Georgia.
When we finally did get on the road, heading west to deliver in Los Angeles, I called the number at UCLA's David Geffin School of Science - our destination - for some good directions as to where they wanted their delivery made. We were bringing them a crematory furnace. I ended up talking to the guy in charge of the donated body program who told me to be careful with his 'baby'. I thought that was funny. When we arrived in LA yesterday morning to deliver it, the guy was there and proceeded to tell me how this thing works and that it had come from Scotland, sailed across to Georgia where we picked it up, and then made rest of the trip on our truck to California. We don't usually have a welcoming committee waiting for us but this guy even wanted to help us fold up the tarp we used to cover the load... in the rain!
We had decided to head up to Las Vegas when we couldn't find anyone who could fix our truck in a short time frame. So that's where we are again today. We will show up at the Volvo dealership bright and early Monday morning so they can make the necessary repairs. At this point, we don't know how long we'll be here but once they get it done, we'll hit the road again.
When we finally did get on the road, heading west to deliver in Los Angeles, I called the number at UCLA's David Geffin School of Science - our destination - for some good directions as to where they wanted their delivery made. We were bringing them a crematory furnace. I ended up talking to the guy in charge of the donated body program who told me to be careful with his 'baby'. I thought that was funny. When we arrived in LA yesterday morning to deliver it, the guy was there and proceeded to tell me how this thing works and that it had come from Scotland, sailed across to Georgia where we picked it up, and then made rest of the trip on our truck to California. We don't usually have a welcoming committee waiting for us but this guy even wanted to help us fold up the tarp we used to cover the load... in the rain!
We had decided to head up to Las Vegas when we couldn't find anyone who could fix our truck in a short time frame. So that's where we are again today. We will show up at the Volvo dealership bright and early Monday morning so they can make the necessary repairs. At this point, we don't know how long we'll be here but once they get it done, we'll hit the road again.