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

I have driven I-95 from Richmond to Connecticut,
and it is indeed miserable in and around NYC.

I-65 between Chicago and Indy is still worse IMHO. Just in terms of the absolutely abysmal quality of the roadway itself. A few days back, I had the pleasure of driving the whole stretch bobtail. I think I wound up two inches shorter from the spinal compression.

The Indiana side is slightly better than the Illinois side, but that's damning with faint praise.

 

There is a bunch of road construction going on in Oregon but it's mostly around Portland and some parts of the I-5 which isn't a bad highway but it does link to Commiefornia.

 

Job I'm looking at might be based in Fort Wayne. So far I like what I've read about Indiana.

 

Only thing wrong with OR is also the main (certainly not the only) fault with CA, 55 MPH speed limits. I spent a week in those two states last week and very nearly lost the will to live.

 

My wife has been after me to take her on a Alaskan cruise for 23 years. One day I will have to break down and take her.

 

Spent seven hours at a dock at Givens in Chesapeake yesterday. There were nine Abilene trucks there, total. All docked. All waiting for shipments to Berea, KY. All of us waiting for hours.

Apparently there was some issue with customs not releasing the paperwork. Eventually we all got called by the yard and told to drop our trailers and find somewhere to sleep for the night, and come back in the morning. About to get breakfast and then head on over there.

You can bet I'm putting in for detention for this one.

 

No wonder I saw a bunch of bob tails on 460 yesterday eve on my way home.

 

I wondered where everybody went. I spent the night at Big Charlie's. I expected to see other Abilenies here, but I was the only one.

 

Too bad I wasn't one of them. We'd of all gone to my house and grilled out or something!