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This blog is primarily intended to keep our family and friends up-to-date on where we are and where we’re going as we drive around the country as long-haul truckers. But it’s also a chance to share some observations about life on the road and life in general.

The title is a reference to one of the things we find so attractive about driving a truck (which weighs 40 tons – 80,000 pounds – when fully loaded); it allows us to travel all over this great country of ours, see the sights, and get paid while we're doing it!

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Along the Oregon Trail

Mike made it up to Springville, Utah to spend Sunday night and Monday with Lori. He even got some early training when he went along to the drop-off location (Stouffer's) and helped unhook the trailer. Since Lori's next pickup (back at Stouffer's) wasn't going to be ready until Tuesday morning, they "bobtailed" (no trailer) back to the local truck stop where Mike got back in his car to drive home and Lori spent the night.

Lori picked up her new trailer Tuesday morning filled with more Lean Cuisine pizza headed for the Safeway distribution center in Clackamas, Oregon which is just outside of Portland. Her route took her north to Idaho where she followed the route of the Old Oregon Trail through the Snake River canyon, through Boise, down "The Cabbage Patch" (east Oregon's version of the Grapevine grade), and alongside the Columbia River through the Columbia Gorge. She's spending Wednesday night at a truck stop near her delivery location before her drop-off appointment at 4:00 a.m. Thursday.
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