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 29, 2008

October surprise

What a difference six weeks makes!

We stopped last night at a rest area in the Poconos that we had stopped at back in September. Here's the photo I took back then.

We woke up this morning to find the ground covered with 2 inches of snow.


Fortunately, we missed the worst of the storm, which had closed highways in Pennsylvania and New Jersey yesterday. By the time we got down into the city, there was no more snow on the ground, though we did get a few flurries while we waited to get unloaded.

We hope this isn't an indication of the kind of winter we're going to have this year.

We're waiting at a service plaza on the New Jersey Turnpike for our next load assignment. Would love to go somewhere out west or south where it's warm.

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