Route 66

Two things:  First, i LOVE driving these trucks.  It is so cool it's ridiculous.  Second, driving these trucks scares the living crap out of me!  They just take up a LOT of space, and there isn't much margin for error.

Especially last night....  it was a foggy night and with road construction there wasn't an inch of shoulder for miles between my wheels and the concrete barrier.  And because we were fully loaded i was usually going slower than most of the other trucks, which kept whizzing by my left side.  It was so stressful that my neck still is sore this morning.  The worst part, though, was when we were getting off one highway and onto another, and i killed the engine on the on ramp/off ramp.  "What's the problem up there England", came a voice from the CB.  "Uh oh, this is not good", said another.  "C'mon England" from another.   Needless to say, the commentary and questions did not help me do a better job when i started to panic.  I finally got it lurched to a start and up the ramp, but by then the damage was done to my confidence and it took me a good hour to shake off that mishap.

Dropped our load this morning at a regional Costco distribution facility in New Jersey.  En route, we covered California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania.  It's surreal driving past road signs for Route 66, Bakersfield, Flagstaff, Albuquerque, Amarillo, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, etc.....    These are places you read about in the newspaper, but you never actually see, except occasionally as you are flying over them.  So it's pretty neat to drive past those well-known places within mere miles of real people with real lives and interesting stories who live there.

We've got an empty trailer behind us and not sure where we're going next.  Let's have an adventure.

Stay safe....

KWA