I am on a trip to CA to deliver to two military bases. I had planned on making the deliveries on Tuesday (yesterday) but the trip has been a total disaster. I ran into an ice storm in IL that delayed me. I blew a tire in OK that cost me time. Then the serpentine belt that drives pretty much everything under the hood broke in NM and I had to get that repaired. I also ran into quite a snow storm in NM too which pretty well clinched it as far as not making delivery before the bases shut down for the holiday.

So now I am just sitting around losing money until I can make delivery next week. Total bummer to be losing a whole week's pay, and pretty much ensures that there is no way in hell I'll be able to pay my bills both past due and current. Guess I'll be losing my home.

Not much I can do about it at this point. I'll just sit around here at the truckstop in Kingman until Sunday when I'll go on into CA and park close to my first stop for Monday morning. They're expecting another snowstorm to move in tonight but I don't think it will affect the Kingman area much if at all. I haven't checked the weather maps yet but am sure the worst of it will be East of here in the higher elevations like Flagstaff.

My APU had stopped running night before last so I've had to idle the truck at night to keep warm. Now that I am no longer in a hurry I took the time this morning to troubleshoot the thing and figure out why it refused to run. When I pulled the fuel filter I found that it had collapsed and was preventing the fuel from flowing. Easy enough to replace that and now at least I have my APU running once again.

Not much to do here as the truckstop is pretty much the only thing at this exit. I haven't tried yet but hopefully I can pick up a few tv stations so I can at least watch tv. If not I can always re-watch some of my DVDs.

This is a nice area, I really like the scenery here. I honestly wouldn't mind living around here except for the fact that it's just too close to CA for my liking.

Ah well I guess I'll wander into the truckstop and get a hot cup of coffee.