Travels of the past couple of weeks
Whew! Made it home this evening (finally). Today's delivery was a real pip. I hauled a rather odd looking thing from Wisconsin to the coast of North Carolina. It was a steel cylinder about 30 feet long, with fins running along it's length as well as inside of it, and a large flange on one end. I had no idea just what it was for, but that's really not my business. I just haul the stuff.
Well, I called the customer this morning to get directions, and he just said "stop at the convenience store and call, someone will come meet you.". I did, and they did, and I followed them out a winding little dirt road (glad I had a guide) to a small place in the woods. Turns out, this thing was part of a unit used to dry crab meal, whatever that is. Well, the boom needed to lift the thing off my truck wasn't there, and we waited for an hour and a half for it to finally show up. It was a 30 or 40 year old pile of rolling junk that just wasn't up to the task. After a couple of hours of them trying to lift the thing, I told them to just lift it up about 6 inches and I drove out from under it. Of course the boom broke, but at least I was rid of the thing and could drive home. Not my problem.
Let's see, last couple of weeks I've been to: WI, AR, TX, MO, NC, SC, GA, SD, NE. A bunch of touring around, lol.
The texas run was a good one, wound up in Lubbock. I stopped at a little Cherokee trading post in MO, where I bought a very nicely made mesquite wood hiking staff which I plan to make good use of this summer. I also had some very good buffalo meat while visiting there.
All in all, it's been a good couple of weeks, and man am I tired.