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.