Abilene Motor Express....A New Place To Call Home

Not a surprise. What the surprise is, is that it took this long.

 

Got empty in St George Utah yesterday at 0800. Got a deadhead move 356 miles down to Colton to live load a produce load that was due Saturday at 0400 in Washington Courthouse OH. The planner knew I couldn’t do it as scheduled so he had a swap set up for this morning in Las Vegas. The disgusting produce center, as usual, took 9 hours to load me. I was able to get a 10 in, left this morning at 2am after scaling out, and met the team at the Petro in N Las Vegas this morning at 7 am. Swapped and took their load that’s a drop before midnight tomorrow night in Walnut Ca. Sitting in Barstow doing a reset. I’ll drop this trailer tomorrow at 1700. Supposedly, the planner has a fire that needs to be put out after I drop, meanwhile, he’s got a load sitting on the Colton yard with my name on it going back to Richmond. It’s all good, I’m just enjoying this 99 degree temperature. (Not!!)

On a side note, I haven’t spoken to my DM since last Friday. He finally called me this morning to let me know he’ll be out of work for a while, seems as how he and his wife were out for a ride last weekend on their Gold Wing and got hit. He’s banged up a little and his wife has a broken ankle. He said he’ll be working out of the house for a week or two.

 

I must say, I’ve been very cranky the last 6 months when it comes to this place of employment that I’ve been at the last 9 years. My wife pointed out that it’s because we haven’t been on vacation since we went to Barbados right before the pandemic started. She made a good point. So, while I was home this last time, the plans are in place, along with the itinerary for 3 weeks in Greece and the Greek Isles. Leaving September 7th. I just hope and pray things at least stay the same here and don’t get any worse.

 

Pretty bad when I admit to it.

 

My mom just got back from Greece and absolutely loved it[/QUOTE]

We were suppose to go last year, but the Chinese flu put the halt to that. We are doing the same thing and visiting the same sites we cancelled last year.