Ridin’ The Storm Out – 2120hrs

So I dropped my load of Eggo’s Friday morning… and sat Sat… and sat Sun.

BUT… I’m rolling again this morning!  Got a nice “easy” load going from Murfreesboro, TN to Washington Court House, OH.  The appointment time wasn’t until 1800 tonight… but having nothing much else to do, I took a gamble and showed up about 6 hours early.  No love… they had only barely backed the trailer in the door.  But I could park in front of the trailer and they’d let me know when it was ready!

So that’s what I did… and low and behold… no sooner had I settle down (and nearly asleep) watching “The Dirty Dozen” when the dock dude came a’bangin’!  Sweet!  Rolled out of there, headed up I24 North into Nashville, then rolled on I65 North towards Louisville, KY.  Made it as fas as x86 Glendale, KT and the Petro there.  The Petro’s have a pretty decent resaurant chain in them called “The Iron Skillet”.  You can guess what the dishes are made of… anyways, a good meal later and I’m hunkering down in the sleeper for the night.  I have another 229 miles to do tomorrow (about 5 hours), and the 90 is a drop and hook so it’s at my convienence!

The down-side?  They’re calling for an ice-storm / winter weather watch tonight from Midnight until tomorrow night (what you guys are supposed to be getting this weekend I guess?), so I’m not sure how far / how quick I’ll get moving in the morning, but I’m gonna try!  I figure I’ll try to head outta here around 8 or 9 (after rush-hour)… hopefully even with weather, that’ll put me at the 90 around 2 or 3… maybe even 4.  I have until about 1600 to finish the load and get to a truck stop to scan my paperwork in by 1630 to be included in this week’s check… other-wise it’ll have to wait until next week’s check.

Working my way up into New England… should be (hopefully) home this weekend… I won’t have much of any time to “visit” with folks this trip as it’ll only be a day or three to get my stuff on the truck and see my sweetie… so you may have to wait until next trip dear avid reader to see “De Big Truk”!