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

Well I made it, took 10 hrs to make a 400 miles run though. No way the $50 makes up for that return on drive time, and that's not taking into account the additional headache of dealing with NYC drivers. I would rather pay $50 to not come back.

But...

It's my job so I do it.

 

Kinda felt sorry for this guy yesterday.

"Whoa," you exclaim. "Were you taking pictures while driving?"

Nope. I was taking pictures while completely stationary. At the time that picture was taken, I hadn't moved in about 2 minutes. At one point I actually put the truck in park, got up, and grabbed some lunch from the pantry. Traffic still hadn't started moving by the time I got back to the driver's seat.

Apparently there was an accident on the Cross Bronx Expressway, which I never actually saw. It is 9.3 miles from the Throg's Neck Bridge to the George Washington Bridge, and yesterday it took me almost 2.5 hours to traverse those 9.3 miles. That is about 3.7 mph for those of you playing at home.

Every time I start thinking to myself that maybe having every weekend off would be worth being a NE regional driver, something like that happens to remind me why I'm not and why I don't wanna.

 

Hope all continues to go well for the many years to cone.

 

As I drove through this morning I kept thinking "who chooses to live here?". All that wide open space out West, dirt cheap and there for the living yet millions choose to live on top of each other and pay through the nose to do so.

 

Glad to hear she's doing well, John.

 

Glad all is well with the wife Johnboy.

 

It can't take me far enough away.

I don't completely hate NYC, I would occasionally take day trips into Manhattan when I used to live on Long island, but that wasn't in a Condo tractor with a 53ft trailer and having moved away decades ago I don't miss thosevtrips at all.