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!

Sunday, August 31, 2008

Catching up

Sorry we haven’t been able to post lately. This current trip hasn’t left much time for writing as we’ve been driving 12-14 hours each day, taking 10 hours off, and then hitting the road again.

We left Fort Morgan, CO around 4:30 Friday afternoon. We "bobtailed" (drove without the trailer) into downtown Fort Morgan Friday morning, did some window shopping, and enjoyed a nice lunch "al fresco."

The weather has been great, a perfect Labor Day weekend. I never realized how rural northern Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio are. Despite there being big cities like Chicago, Toledo, and Cleveland along our route, we’ve seen as many corn and soy bean fields in those states as we did in Nebraska and Iowa.

We also saw a perfect Labor Day weekend portrait at a farm house near the highway; a big family gathering complete with badminton, picnic tables, lots of folks sitting on lawn chairs, and the grill smoking away. We hope all of you had a great “last weekend of summer.”

We did get a chance to stop by Iowa 80, “The World’s Largest Truckstop.” It’s got to be big to hold two semi-truck tractors and a full length cab and trailer! Enjoy the photos.





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