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!

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Dinner break

We've just had a nice dinner with our son and daughter, Brent and Christina, in Phoenix. The load from Texas was ready soon enough that we were able to spend a few hours with them and still be able to make our delivery in Walnut, CA tomorrow morning.

Brent has joined with with several other mortgage industry folks to start up a new mortgage company, Lendability. (You can check out their website a www.lendability.com.) They are getting a lot of traffic and inquiries, even with the slow state of the industry. We are confident in both Brent's abilities and the future of the economy, so we are hopeful their business will soon be booming.

We think, however, the heat has affected their senses. Here it is the first week in October and the temperature gauges we saw today were reading well over 100 degrees. When we commented about the heat to Brent and Christina, they said no, the weather was beautiful today. Well, at least it's a "dry heat."

We're hoping to spend a little time at home tomorrow as our first delivery is scheduled for tomorrow at 8 a.m., with the second part of the load not due for delivery until Friday morning at 11:30. We'll have to wait and see, though, as schedules could still change.

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