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

My condolences John. Sorry for your loss. One of the hardest things ever. I own cats and miss my previous ones every day.

 

That blows. My sincerest condolences.

 

Oh no... So sorry to hear about Coco.

 

Awww. So sad. He waited for his dad to get home before he passed. Making me tear up just thinking about it.

 

Sorry to hear that, you got home just in time.

 

National Weather Service aren't the ones constantly touting wind speeds.

 

Well, the super caffeinated coffee from the TA truck stop did indeed work its magic. I did not get sleepy at all while driving yesterday. Not only that, I set another personal best with 754 miles passing beneath my wheels. I actually drove past the Little America truck stop and spent the night at the Pilot just west of Flagstaff. Rolled in with 8 minutes left on my clock.

I do not normally drive out my full clock, mainly because I mostly do short runs. Not much point to trying to maximize your 11 when you spend a good chunk of your day in traffic, or stopped at stop lights, and you're just going to end your day at a truck-stop with no load assignment anyways and 2 hours left on your drive clock. But these nice long cross-country runs? Yeah I'm happy to put the hammer down and see how far I can go.

NyQuil has the same drowsy inducing ingredient as Benadryl, and that particular ingredient is hit-or-miss for me, mostly miss. Nine times out of 10, it does not have any effect on me whatsoever.

 

4 miles short of my PB! .

I love the west coast runs, even it means having to enter CA. I keep hoping their secession movement builds steam, maybe we won't have to run there any longer.

 

I confess that today I have been having fantasies about a nationwide truckers strike, in which no trucking company, nor any independent truckers, drive in California until the state raises the speed limit for 18-wheelers to match the speed limit for cars.

Obviously won't happen, but a man can dream.

 

OR is another slow-me state, but at least they have nicer highway scenery to look at.