Well, we made it across the country this week. For all the trouble we had getting started last week, the truck ran very well. We left Washington last Wednesday and had plenty of time to get to New Hampshire this morning for our delivery. We were lucky to get over the Rocky Mountains with no snow falling and lots of sunshine. In fact, the weather was perfect everyday. One new thing did happen along the way though. A couple nights ago, Jorge had gone to bed and I was still wide awake. I decided to keep driving across Pennsylvania. I had the radio cranked up, singing along to the old songs, and thinking that this drive along I-80 would be a perfect place to hit a deer. That reminded me of my years of newpaper delivery back in southern Illinois where I would hit a deer pretty regularly and so my mind was wandering thru all those memories. Suddenly, out of nowhere, this big deer jumped onto the road and ran across it when it had an unfortunate impact with the front bumper of our truck. Jorge jumped up to see what had happened and when I pulled over to the side of the road to check it out, the only damage was to our passenger side headlight. It's a miracle that there wasn't a scratch on the truck or that the hood didn't get tore up. We were wanting to replace the headlight assembly anyway but weren't planning on doing it this week. Once we delivered our load this morning at the National Guard Armory in Manchester, one of the guys that works there was kindly volunteered to take Jorge to the Volvo dealer to get the new lights. We figured as long as we were replacing one, we may as well do both of them. So Merry Christmas to us! We are so romantic to give each other new headlights for Christmas gifts this year, aren't we? At $350 each, we can't afford to hit any more deer with them - that's for sure! Oh, and stay tuned for a video of the whole thing. The dash cam we always have running captured all the excitement but I haven't had time or good enough signal to put it on YouTube yet.
We didn't really make any Thanksgiving plans this year. With all the time off we've taken this year, we figured we'd just stay out on the road and end up wherever the work takes us. Before we were even unloaded this morning, we got a call for another load picking up only 18 miles away that was going to Minnesota. Perfect, we thought! Now we'll get to enjoy Thanksgiving in Winona and with lots of the family there. We're excited it's worked out so well. We couldn't have planned it any better if we tried. It sounds like we're going to have a chance to get up to St. Paul while we're taking a few more days off over the weekend. My daughter, Shari, and her husband relocated back there from Chicago this past summer and have just finished moving in to their new house. It will be fun to get up there and see that too. So that's our plan for the rest of the week. Happy Thanksgiving to all our family and friends!
We didn't really make any Thanksgiving plans this year. With all the time off we've taken this year, we figured we'd just stay out on the road and end up wherever the work takes us. Before we were even unloaded this morning, we got a call for another load picking up only 18 miles away that was going to Minnesota. Perfect, we thought! Now we'll get to enjoy Thanksgiving in Winona and with lots of the family there. We're excited it's worked out so well. We couldn't have planned it any better if we tried. It sounds like we're going to have a chance to get up to St. Paul while we're taking a few more days off over the weekend. My daughter, Shari, and her husband relocated back there from Chicago this past summer and have just finished moving in to their new house. It will be fun to get up there and see that too. So that's our plan for the rest of the week. Happy Thanksgiving to all our family and friends!