This is what I do when I get home....

Being a trucker, I don't have much time off and when I do it's usually spent relaxing or doing chores like shopping and getting ready to go back out. But a couple weeks ago a bunch of us got together and drove down to the bay for some fun. It was fleet week so we got to see the Navy Blue Angels!








In this photo they all went straight up in the air together and just about to the point where you couldn't see them anymore, they all branched off upside down and looped back around straight for the water...



Here's Olivia and I trying to get a nice photo of ourselves but Kelley just had to ruin it... Oh, see how we are on a bus? We were going to take the ferry but as soon as we handed the guy our ticket to get on the boat, they said they are full and we had to take the bus...BOO!!!



If you would like to check out some more photos of our trip to San Francisco, go to www.norcalphoto.com and click on photos. It will be the first Gallery listed.



And today I had a lot of fun... I bought myself a little toy... and a trailer for my little toy. I'm a proud new owner of a brand new 2006 Arctic Cat M7 Snowmobile!!! I can't wait for the snow to start dumping in tahoe!!!! Here's what my new toy will look like...




Check below for photos from the last couple weeks on the road!!!

Chris

It's winter time!!!!

So I've been worrying about winter since day 1 of being out here on the road solo and now it's officially here. Oh well, just another fact of trucking but you can guarantee that I cannot wait until spring!!! Anyways, I'm home on my 34hr restart and will be heading back out tomorrow morning. Last week was busy. 4096 miles in 8 days. Started in Sacramento and ran up to Portland then back down to Chico then back up to Portland, then down to Sacramento then up to portland then east to Boise,ID then west to Portland then down to sacramento then home. Lots of miles since it's christmas season. All the stores are taking double the amount of loads they were taking during the fall. BUSY BUSY BUSY!!! I'm off in the morning to go up to portland then back south, then back up... Weather is supposed to be wet in oregon so let's hope it does not snow!!!


A westbound hay truck rolled off the road just east of bend, oregon last week on OR20.




Can you spot the deer? Taken somewhere along OR20 heading to Boise, ID.




Early morning sunrise in Bend, OR.




I'm standing on the Detriot Dam just outside of Detriot,OR and just east of Salem,OR on OR20.




Parked just east of Bend,OR for the night.



Whoops along I-5 heading toward Sacramento.




Fog season has started up on Ashland Grade. One second it's clear, the next you can't see anything...




The first snowfall up on Santiam Pass of the season on OR20 west of Bend,OR

Jim Waugh told me to update or else.....

It's been a busy month, seriously. I'm on a new fleet that runs from portland to idaho and portland to california 3 times week. My 70hr clock is up in 5-6 days, so I'm running some long hard full days. I got on the fleet around the 1st of october and I've ran 13,000 miles since I started. I got a newer truck. It's a 2005 and It's a lot nicer than my old one. Everything works and I'm having a good time. I also get home whenever I deliver a local sacramento store, then head back up north in the morning. It's nice.




My new truck with a Detroit and the bigger dual 150gal tanks...
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While delivering to a store in the bay area, I watched this box truck almost fall off the dock... haha.



Frosted over plants and bushes sparkling in the sun along Highway 20 in Oregon heading east.




Just a little bit chilly...





Sunrise just west of Bend, Oregon.




I love driving along highway 20.





They drain this lake every fall. Along Highway 20 heading west early one morning.