An Apple a Day

It's actually more like 30,000 pounds of apples for the next two days. Lori's current load consists of apples and pears from Washington state headed for Florida. Lori won't be taking the trailer to it's final destination, however. The truck has a few electrical problems and a cracked bumper that need to be taken care of so she will be swinging by "world headquarters" in Springfield, MO to get the truck looked after. A team truck will take the trailer full of apples and pears onto Florida.

I left out another of Seattle's famous tenants from the last post. In addition to Starbucks and Microsoft, Seattle is the home of Boeing, a fact that Lori was reminded of as she drove to her last drop off spot in Everett. Her route took her on the Boeing Freeway and right alongside Boeing's main production facility.

Lori did get the chance to spend Tuesday evening with her cousins in Grandview, Washington. They had a nice dinner and swapped the latest news from each of their respective families.

Today's pickup locations were both a ways off the main highway in the apple growing regions near Ellensburg and Yakima. Lori said the scenery was beautiful and the truck is filled with the smell of apples.

She's looking forward to a couple of days of just driving since the past two days have involved pulling in and out of five different facilities, including one that had so little room to manuever she had to have the "yard jockey" use his specialized tractor cab to get her trailer up to the loading dock.