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

Fought ice, snow and wind across Montana on US 2 last night. We got to Shelby and stayed at the pilot. Got up at 3am showered then headed north. We cleared customs without any issues, then played in snow the 3 hours to Airdrie. We were there a total of 15 minutes. 3 hours north of there we made it to Edmonton. On our way up we got a preplan to reload today about an hour northwest of Edmonton going to Reno for Wednesday morning. I see a Colton Ca load Thursday night.

 

After getting loaded in Acheson Alberta on Tuesday night we had a 410 mile drive down to the U.S. boarder. We decided to make it down to a flying j in Nanton, about 2.5 hours north of the boarder so we could call into Abilene and have our Paps clearance number taken care of for re-entry into the states. That took all of an hour then it was back to the good ole US. We deliver in 3 hours in Gardnerville Nevada. I drove all night and Brian is finishing the last part. This was a pretty cool 1500 mile trip, I was in places I've never been before and some that I haven't been in in years. I had my wife add an international plan to my phone, and with all the calling I had to do the 24 hours up there I'm pretty sure the wife is going to flip.

 

Just got our preplan. Deadhead 400 miles to Sylmar Ca when we get empty to drop and hook going back to Richmond for Saturday night. This whole round will be 7190 miles in 7 days. Couldn't have been done like this without a true team partner in Brian.

 

We've been discussing it. Trying to see how it would work out with him living in northern Vermont and me in South Florida.

 

Sleep. But really Pete, we both each get paid on the 1000 miles per day. So the sleep part is pretty cool.

 

It was a breeze. In fact, everyone we came in contact with was really nice, my first time up in Edmonton was a great experience. I'll do it again in a heartbeat.