Flys in Trucks

I just don't understand why flys love my truck. I can have my window down for a couple minutes and BAM, I have a couple new buzzing friends in my truck who just don't want to leave. I think I need a fly swatter but I'm too cheap =) After trying to get him out unsucessfully for an hour, I finally push him out only to have him fly right back in. It's quite annoying haha.

Well, after I last chatted to all you guys, I left Hampshire ( a small town west of Chicago) and headed to Romeoville,IL where I picked up a load of Tampons and wipes (ooh, how exciting!!!) and delivered it to Larwence, Kansas then went right back the way I came and slept in St. Louis last night. I left there this morning around 12am and drove agian, back the same I came the day before, up through Kansas city and Lincoln,NE to where I am right now in Grand Island, NE. I'm running off of picked up hours so I'll be leaving tonight agian around 12am running westbound through the rest of nebraska and through Wyoming. Eventually in a couple days I'll make it to oregon where hopefully, I can take a reset... please dispatcher? lol.

Heres your reward for reading my babble...



An awesome looking Peterbilt with an equally as awesome reefer trailer... (notice the reefer fuel between the trailer axles, nice touch.




The sun peaking through the clouds along I-80 in Nevada last week.




Early morning just outside of Wendover,NV heading east along the salt flats.




So what, we're not going to have a winter? Fresh snow in Park City, UT





A gigantic crane with a bucket that probably bigger than two trucks!





This was fun. Just a normal day in Wyoming and Nebraska.




I found this do-it-yourself truck wash a couple trips out east ago. Exit 59 in Sydney, Nebraska right across the street from the Cabelas. $4 worth of quarters gets your truck all soapy and a high pressure rinse gets most of the bugs and dirt off... Way better than paying 40+ bucks at the Streakin' Beacon.



Leaving the tiny town of Hampshire, IL just outside of Chicago after delivering a load of Magnesium blocks to General Motors.




Chris
aka Midder

Sitting just outside, Chicago, IL

I've been out here about a week since last being home and so far so good. Things have gotten a bit tougher since when I left home the first time for some reason. It's getting terribly hard to leave home. Being a truck driver, you miss so much stuff that goes on at home. It's tough because I don't even know if I will be home for Thanksgiving or even worse, Christmas. If it was tough being out here for Easter earlier in the year christmas is just going to be downright depressing but I have to do what I signed up for. Drive freight around the country and that's what I'm doing.

To anyone who's thinking about driving out here. It's tough, besides following the rules and regulations its just hard to be out here alone. It seems like the first couple days after leaving home are the toughest and then it does gets easier. The one saving grace out here is having a trucking friend. No one, not your wife or girlfriend, best friend since 1st grade, or your parents have any idea what it's like to be out here. I'm lucky enough to have some trucking friends that I can talk to when it get's hard. Thank you to you guys, you know who you are. Hey you, Call me man!



Anyways, heres some random photos from the last week or so. I'm working on a new computer and I don't have photoshop yet so the photo's aren't quite the quality that they would be if I did develop them in Photoshop but they will do for now.



Heading through montana while a wildfire burns nearby... The smoke was thick didn't make me feel to good...





Inside the Potlatch Paper Factory in Lewiston, ID.




A 9/11 Memorial in Idaho.





A massive bridge in Twin Falls,ID. Picture was taken in the Best Buy parking lot which sits just on the edge of the cliff!






That's me!!!

Massive photo update!!!

How about we cut to the good stuff right away?



Cruising the dowtown streets of Lincoln, Nebraska




Summertime Storm in Wyoming.




A gordon doing what we do best. Clogging the hammer lane =)




Spotted another BIG oversize in Nebraska.





Who's up for a detour for superman?




Stopped at the Theodoore Rosevelt National Park Vistor Center and rest area yesterday in North Dakota....The views of the Badlands were breathtaking...



Can you spot the Buffalo roaming around down there?






My friend told me to stop here because he was there a couple weeks ago and the bison were wandering around the parking lot... No such luck for me but maybe next time.





Anyone up for a buffalo cake?




I like driving east and going through all the back country towns that look like they were in the TV Show "Simple Life" with Paris Hilton...



Some men locked up in a trailer like horses.....




All joking aside, Kentucky was beautiful...








Yesterday I drove my 700 miles and had to shut down for the day due to being out of hours but I was in the "zone" and wished that I could go even further... So what to do when you're sitting on an exit out in the middle of montana in the pitch black? Take pictures! Believe it or not, The moon was did all the lighting in this 5 second exposure.