Monday, February 27, 2012

Weathered the Storm

So...we were worried about being stuck on the wrong side of Snoqualmie Pass with a storm coming and planning on dumping a foot of snow. We kept calling the 511 line...chains required...YUCK...then avalanche control...traffic stopped. Fine, ill just get my laundry done then. My clothes were just about out of the drier when Jeff came in and said...no chains and avalanche control is complete. Time to cruise. The snow was higher than our truck on the summit. We made it over the pass and are now getting loaded in Peshastin, WA and heading to Pageland, SC. Some nice southern sun sure wouldn't hurt mt feelings right now!



Saturday, February 25, 2012

Old Man Winter

Well....our run from Swanton, OH to Kent, WA went great. Ran into quite a bit of weather, but still made our delivery on time.
We are now sitting at the TA Truckstop at the bottom of Snoqualmie pass in WA. Our load doesn't pick up until Monday and we woke up this morning to rain/ snow mix. Unfortunately, they are expecting a foot of snow by tomorrow and the chain law is already in effect for the pass. We will be heading to SC, but I'm thinking its probably going to take the majority of the week on this run.
I'm ready for spring....




Saturday, February 11, 2012

It's Official....

We have now covered every state in the USA with our truck. We were missing MN and ND. From OH, we got a load going to Kent, WA. We took the 90 all the way to the west coast. Arriving in Washington state, no rain for the next 3 days. We have spent a lot of time in OR and WA and it is so beautiful. I have never been able to see Mt. Ranier, Mt. Hood and Mt. st. Helens all in one day and clear as a bell. We spent Jeff's 50 th bday at Jubitz in Portland. There is a really cool nature trail we like to take out of there and London loves it.
Next load from Portland to Conley, GA. Got to explore the Ellenwood terminal and then fueled at Tunnel Hill and took a load up to Swanton, OH...pretty much right off of Lake Erie. We then picked up a reefer trailer from Shippenburg, PA and headed to Peabody, MA where we picked up last night and are heading to Anaheim, CA...a sweet 3500 mile run! The weather was horrible last night with the storm coming in and PA and OH were pretty much blizzard conditions, but we pushed through and are on schedule to deliver on Monday afternoon in Cali. The weather from here looks like pretty smooth sailing. Sometimes you have to push through, weather wise, when you know the rest of the trip won't be as bad. Once again, running miles and lovin life.