I managed to do some geocaching along my route up from FL to MN and then from MN to the yard here in WI. On the run up from FL I really didn't have a lot of time to spend on it but did manage to find a couple of quick and easy ones. Today I was able to take my time wandering across WI as I didn't really have to be anywhere at any certain time today. I'm not due in at the office until tomorrow morning. I plotted a couple of caches on my GPS that were along my route and stopped at both of th...

It's been a stressful couple of days. One long traffic backup after another. I finally got my load delivered today, a full 24 hours late, and headed into WI to make way to the yard. I stopped at a small truck stop inside of WI and decided to relax for the evening. After having something to eat I kicked back and started knitting. That always relaxes me. While I was working on the Irish Hiking Scarf I suddenly felt my truck rock to one side. Damn! I knew what that meant. Some asshole just hi...

Yeah, it was one of those days where everything worked out exactly the way it shouldn't have. I got to the pick up location 15 minutes early this morning as is my habit but still wound up having to wait a couple of hours before getting loaded. Instead of getting all bent out of shape about it I just pulled out my knitting and worked on that until time to finally load. When the guy walked over to my truck to tell me he was ready for me he kind of did a double take on the knitting but never ...

I'm having my morning coffee and getting ready to head back out on the road again. With the moving and all it just doesn't feel like I've been home long enough. But there are bills to pay and a new house to pay for, so off I go again. I have to pick up some power substation transformer components about 30 minutes from here and haul them up to MN. The crane will be there at 9:00 this morning and so will I. I'm all packed up. All is left is to carry out the trash, rinse out the coffee pot , ...

I took my GPS with me when I rode the bent to Publix a little while ago. I decided to do a bit of geocaching along the way. I got lucky and found two this time out. The first one was hanging below a wooden bridge on a bit of fishing line. It took me a few minutes to find it but as the name of the cache was "Troll" I assumed it would have to be under the bridge. It only contained a log which i signed to document the find. The second one was called "My House" and once I followed the GPS...

I've decided to take a break from the sorting and putting away of my stuff for the rest of the day. I need some rest as I have been going full tilt since I got in from the road. I have the living room in good order, the kitchen is finished and quite presentable and usable, the bathroom is now done (except for pile of laundry currently being done). I've made a small start on the disaster of a bedroom but that can wait until tomorrow. I'm still doing laundry but it's not like that's so much ...

Good grief. I'd forgotten just how much work setting up in a new place can be. It seems like no matter how much I do the mess just seems to remain. Today I've managed to more or less get the kitchen together and usable. I've set up my computer desk and computer system (no DSL yet), rewired the phone lines, installed some shelving in the hall pantry and stored the pots and pans on said shelving, made a grocery run, and made a small dent on getting the bathroom in some sort of reasonable sh...

On my way home today Mom called me and said that her friend wanted to sell me her place right across the street from Mom. She offered a good price, was willing to carry the financing herself, and as she knows that paying interest and finance charges is against my religion (CCB) she would finance for 0%. I went and looked the place over and it's much larger than my place, is fully furnished including two televisions, and a machine that is both a washer and a drier in one unit (now I have to...

I was reading about geocaching Link and decided that it sounds like fun. It's basically like a scavenger hunt using a GPS. The cache can be anything from a simple container with nothing more than a log inside for you to sign, or it could contain any of a number of things. The rule is if you take something, you also leave something. As I am killing time here at the truck stop in Vero Beach, FL I did a cache search for anything near these coordinates and found a listing for a cache about a...

I'm on a load home. I loaded most of it at the yard in WI on Tuesday morning and then picked up two large crated machines in Holland, MI on Wednesday morning. The first stop is in Jacksonville, FL for Monday morning, then I have a stop in Ft Lauderdale and one in Miami. Once I get them delivered I'll be going home for about a week. As I can't deliver until Monday I've been doing the run in small hops. I don't want to get down there too quickly and wind up sitting around in one truck stop f...

I went over to Appleby's for dinner. While there I noticed they had a new server. She was about 5 foot nothing, had that deep red auburn hair that you just can't get from a bottle, and a slightly turned up nose that I found adorable. Adorable is a good word. That's what came to my mind looking at her. Adorable. I'd guess that she was, at best, 21 or 22 years old, and actually looked younger. The bartender told me her name was Reagan (sp?). An apt name for her look. I have to admit that I ...

I've made it to within 30 minutes of my delivery in WI for tomorrow morning. I can now take it easy, rest, and catch my breath after a week of pretty hard running. I've had my dinner and am about to pop in a DVD to fall asleep by. I've really been enjoying my new toy, the GPS unit. I discovered that the picture viewer part is kind of useful after all. I transferred several images from my laptop to the unit's SD card and it plays them slideshow fashion. It makes a dandy little screensaver. ...

I'm now really glad that I bought this GPS unit. I was riding along on I-44 in MO and saw signs that indicated that there was an accident at mile marker 186 that had the two left lanes blocked, prepare to stop, and expect delays. Wonderful. Sure enough right about exit 184 traffic was at a dead stop. A quick glance at the GPS screen showed an alternate route through the small town of Rolla that would put me back on the interstate on the other side of the wreck. I took the exit and started ...

I made my way out of Utah, through a corner of Colorado, and into New Mexico on route 491 which was formerly known as route 666. They changed the name some time back because a lot of superstitious types refused to drive on "The Devil's Highway". I even saw tee shirts at one truck stop on a reservation that read "I survived the Devil's Highway". On my way to El Paso I stopped at a Petro truck stop and saw a sign that indicated that the Lowrance iWay 250c GPS unit was on sale for $100 off. P...

Sleep is great. It really does wonders for the body. After the hard running I did over the weekend and yesterday my bad hip was killing me. By the time I got unloaded and made it to this truck stop it was sore. I grabbed something to eat here and after sitting down and eating I had a real tough time getting back up again. Oh oh, not a good sign. I very painfully limped back out to my truck, barely able to keep moving and dearly wishing that I had my cane with me right about then. I craw...