Don't Sleep - Go

Delivered hay to SW Hay Exchange in Boyd, Texas. The weather was stormy, and we had found a load going out of Ennis, Texas that didn't pick up until the next day, so we dropped the trailer in the barn, and spent a stormy night at the Loves in Rhome.

Then we drove to Betafence in Ennis, Texas to pick up a three drop load of specialized fencing bound for Las Cruces, New Mexico, then Norwalk and Costa Mesa in California.

The first drop didn't deliver until Monday, so we spent the weekend in a nice Best Western in Weatherford, Texas. This after checking into possibly the worst room ever at a little place near the truck stop called the Sleep Go Motel. This place was so bad... the bed was worn out, the walls filthy, smelled like cigarettes, and worst of all our boots stuck to the carpet. Not to mention the tiny old shower.
 
Shiver. Needless to say we got our money back.
 
We delivered the first drop to Las Cruces High School in Las Cruces, New Mexico. This is a giant new school going up that has been under construction for over a year. Then we drove on to deliver drop two the next morning in Norwalk, California before going on to Costa Mesa, California.

As we worked our way through the deliveries, we came up with a load out of Chino bound for Lake Oswego, Oregon, which would get us home for Christmas.

We also managed to get a local load of steel sheets going from Riverside to Fontana that helped out, since we managed to forget to deliver a small box that belonged to the stop in Costa Mesa, and we had to go all the way back to get it to them.

Then drove out heading for home. We sat in LA traffic for a long time, since it was rush hour when we left.

Steel, Sand & Steeds

Delivered steel beams and misc steel parts to Charles Colton Middle School in New Orleans, Louisiana. The job site is a renovation near the French Quarter, in an historic neighborhood. Very narrow streets with cars parked on both sides, and no truck traffic allowed. However, there is no other place to unload, so we got to be the latest in a long line of trucks pissing off the neighbors. What else can we do?

Got a load out from US Minerals in Harvey, LA, south of New Orleans, and delivered to Corpus Christie, Texas. Then got a reload from Sintex in Rosenberg, Texas, some sinterlite bound for Wyoming. We drove the 180+ miles to get loaded, tarped, then found out the load may have been canceled.

Turns out the customer in Casper, Wyoming decided to cancel, but we were able to deliver to a company in Denver, which gets us close enough to our reload in Lovell, Wyoming. We were a little worried about snow, but didn't end up running into any.
 
We drove to CetCo/American Colloid, in Lovell, Wyoming to pick up some 'drilling product' or drilling mud, bound for Lake Harbor, Florida. Had a bit of a scenic tour when Samantha (our GPS) sent us the long way around, across the desert. Got some pretty pictures, but it was a little aggravating.

Then on the way out, Samantha kept wanting to send us up to I-90 via a road that was closed for the winter, and in trying to plot our own way back, I sent us 25 miles out of route before we realized it. : (

Drove through the Wind River Gorge, got some great pictures of it and Boysen Reservoir at sunset. Very cold. Will enjoy getting back into some heat in the south.

    

Had some time to kill, so we stopped in Kissimmee, Florida and watched the Medieval Times show. Good fun. Spent a lot of money - if we go again, we probably wouldn't buy the photos they took of us, but I would do the royalty upgrade, as that put us nice and close to the action. The knights were very fit and put on an impressive show.