Out w/ TE… Days 11 & 12
Sunday, October 22, 2006
Saturday, 10/21:
What a beautiful morning! Temp’s in the upper 40s, not a cloud in the sky, and no wind. I got up around 5:30 and walked to the truck stop to get coffee and take care of a few personal morning duties.
Around 7:30 I pulled the truck around to the fuel islands and filled it up. Val met us there about the time I got finished and we were on the road a few minutes later. The scenery along I-80 through PA. was beautiful; lots of rivers, hills, and autumn leaves. The Fall colors were past their prime but still quite impressive.
Early in the afternoon we stopped at a T/A truck stop in Barkeyville, PA for lunch, then I drove another hour or two to the Seville, OH OC. Curtis wanted to do a load of laundry, so I took the opportunity to grab a shower and give Terrie a call. Curtis took the wheel from there and we ended up in a McDonald’s parking lot in Columbia City, IN for the evening.
Sunday, 10/22:
We woke up to rain and temps in the low 40s. Had a quick cup of coffee at McD’s and hit the road around 8:30. Val had me drive first again today; we were late getting in last night and Curtis’ DOT break wouldn’t be up for another hour or so. Since we need to be in Cedar Rapids, IA by mid-afternoon he didn’t want to wait.
Anyway it was a fairly uneventful morning. We continued west on US 30 to I-65, then north to I-80 and westward again. Our lunch stop was in Princeton, IL, and that’s where Curtis and I swapped places. On we drove ’till we reached Mt. Pleasant, IA, where we once again spent the night in a motel parking lot. At least there was a Super Wal-Mart across the street.
By the way, the cab of this truck is getting awfully small. I hope we’ll be done with this training thing soon, or someone’s gonna have to kill somebody.
