Hello from home

I am still home after getting here on Saturday night. Had a great day at my Sister Mickie and Bill's house on Sunday. I was still a little tired, but had a nice time. Fourth of July was spent at home mostly. Went for a little motorcycle ride in the morning with some friends. Had some breakfast, and stopped for a beer. Then I came home to meet up with my son. It was really good to see him, and we talked for a few hours. Then Becky and I just stayed home and watched the fireworks extravaganza from the comfort of the motor home. There was plenty to see, and lasted until nearly 10PM. I was pretty sure I was going to head out again Tuesday night, or at least tonight, but have not received a call. I am going to call in the morning. My truck was heating up a little and I left it at the shop when I got back Saturday, so it may be having some repair done to it. The last trip was a good one, as far as earnings go. I left out Friday night, went straight to Vancouver BC Monday morning, dropped my trailer and picked up an empty. Took that to the Puyallup WA yard and dropped it there. Had another trailer for BC Tuesday with 5 drops. Got back to WA late that evening, had some dinner with a driver and his wife who works out of that office, spent the night there and then I had a local delivery of about a half a trailer Wednesday. I was out of hours for the week, and had to reset my time there. Pretty boring. There is not a thing to do there, no driver lounge, or much of anything else, so you just pretty much have to sit in your truck for a day and try to keep from going crazy. After the reset, which was then Friday morning I had my load coming south, and headed out. I had 5 deliveries in Oregon for the way back, managed to get them all off on Friday, got to Corning, CA that night grabbed a few hours of sleep and headed out around 2:30AM Saturday morning. I did this to try and avoid some of the holiday traffic. It worked until around 7AM then it was pretty heavy traffic the rest of the way home. I broke off I5 in Bakersfield and took Hwy 58 over Tehachapi to avoid the LA area traffic. Worked pretty well, because traffic was light through Mojave and all the way into Victorville. Anyway, that pretty much sums up last week. Only real things of note, I saw two major accidents, both in WA, and both overturned cars. Honestly, how bad of a driver do you have to be to turn your car over on the freeway? I'm thinking pretty bad. Also coming through OR on Friday, saw a big diesel pusher motor home that had burned up. Totally destroyed. All the windows broken out and the interior totally burned up. Sad, an expensive 3 axle number that had to cost in the high 100's or $200 thousand. Other than that, no accidents the rest of the way home, which surprised me for a holiday weekend.

Take care everyone

Larry