Montana in the Summertime

We finally made it up to Montana in the summertime. Still a beautiful place with a lot less snow. It is called Big Sky country for a reason. It really is true. The sky seems so much bigger and the clouds are always really cool. The first morning that we woke up close to Rocker it was 43 degrees and raining. I had to put on pants and socks for the first time in months...it was painful! Montana weather is a lot like Colorado. It changes on a dime and in the morning it can be chilly, but by the afternoon it has warmed up and turned into being a fantastic day.

Setting the Story Straight

Our load went from Salt Lake City up to Helena, MT and then from Helena over to Great Falls and then back to LA. While in Great Falls picking up a load at General Mills we ran into a driver for Watkins Shepard that seemed to know us. He recognized our truck number and asked us if we were the ones that had the blog. I was shocked. I had no idea people were reading our blog.

He mentioned that our blog has been openly discussed on many different truck driving forums and the word out there is that we are really a PR firm that has been hired by Watkins Shepard to up their image. Well I'm here to tell you that we are real truck drivers that were hired by Watkins Shepard, but to drive a truck, not to "up their image". We started with Watkins Shepard after attending their 10-day orientation program in January of 2010. My husband and I drive as a team and we love our job. The blog was originally created for our old clients in Denver to follow our transition into the trucking industry. My husband and I were in the printing industry and I being a graphic designer needed to keep in touch with my geeky computer side and feel like I could still turn on my Mac for a purpose. Yes, it's true. Everything on this blog we have done all while traveling around the country and making money doing so. If you have any questions about us or Watkins Shepard we would be more than happy to answer them. Please direct them to: melincreative@comcast.net

I forgot to add these two pics of our Maryland trip. They are both from the Harbor in Maryland. One of a battleship and the other of the Veteran's Bridge. We haven't been back here since our first trip, but hopefully will return in the future to see more.