About This Site

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!

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Hot potatoes

Lori's headed to Phoenix (forecast high temperature - 110 degrees) with a load of Idaho potatoes.

The route will take her through one of Mike and Lori's favorite landscapes - the canyons and deserts of southern Utah and Northern Arizona. The colors, rock formations, and starkness of the desert have a unique beauty that you can't find in many other places. She'll also be driving past the Glen Canyon Dam that forms Lake Powell in Page, AZ (on the bridge in the photo to the right.)

The load delivers Saturday morning but Lori plans should arrive Friday evening so she is hoping to spend some time with her son and daughter-in-law and her sister who live in the Phoenix area.

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