I looked outside as I went to the hotel lobby to get some coffee. The wind is really blowing out there and it's snowing. This is mid-April, it should not be snowing. It's going to be a crappy day.

After I finish up at the witch doctor tomorrow I'll be heading for Detroit. I have an Oshkosh truck going to some sort of show at a civic center there, if I recall correctly it's called Cobo or something like that. I have to deliver the truck there for the show at 8:00am Thursday. No idea what I'll be doing after that. I even have to stop and wash the stupid thing before delivering it so it's nice and clean for the show. What a pain in the ass. When I picked it up in Oshkosh this aftern...

I got a call from dispatch this morning right around 8:00 while I was in the hotel lobby getting a cup of coffee. He wanted me to grab a trailer and run 3 hours up the road to Northern WI to pick up a fire truck and haul it back down to Oshkosh. As it sounded a little too easy I should have been suspicious, but I said ok and that I would be there after I finished my coffee and had a shower. On the way up I called the customer for directions and had to talk to three different people before ...

I went next door to Applyby's for dinner and a couple of cold ones. I sat and quietly enjoyed my dinner. Afterwards I was talking to the bartender when someone was suddenly hugging me, which needless to say was a bit of a surprise, and I heard "I thought that was you! I didn't recognize you without your beard but I couldn't miss that voice! You still sound exactly like Sam Elliot! I love your voice. I wondered if you'd stop back in." Of course it was the same server who had told me a littl...

Part Three of my video adventure.

Ok, here's part two for anyone who's interested.

Ok, I've uploaded the first installment in my experiment with the video camera. Lemme know what you think.

After breakfast I went back into Oshkosh and picked up a couple of military trailers to haul down to the yard. As my back had kept me from sleeping very well last night I was really tired by the time I finished chaining them down. My back was also killing me at that point. I decided then and there that as soon as I got to the yard I would call to see if I could get in to see the witch doctor this afternoon. I was supposed to follow up with him after two weeks anyway, and since it's been 10...

I pulled out of the truck top in Southwestern MO around 7:15 this morning. I knew I had 11 hours of hard driving time between there and where I needed to be tonight. Counting stops for rest breaks, food, etc, it took me exactly 12 hours and 15 minutes to get here. Needless to say no grass grew under my feet as I was only stopped a total of an hour and 15 minutes all day. I rolled into this truck stop in Fond du Lac, WI this evening at 7:30 on the nose. Tired and sore, but here. I'm goi...

This morning I picked up a small digital video camera. I'm using it to video my trip up to WI. I signed up on YouTube so once I get the editing done I can upload it. As they have a 100MB file size limit I'll have to edit it into small chunks. Once I have that done I am going to have to find a fast internet connection for the actual uploads as my cellular card is simply far too slow to upload videos in any sort of reasonable time. The camera itself is pretty cool and I've been having so...

I stopped at a little tin roof bar in Texas I've been stopping at for a number of years. It's not exactly an upscale joint, but it's comfortable. They don't put up with fights or any other bullshit. A pretty decent little country bar. I had a good time, and spent some time talking to a little Mexican gal who kept calling me "Angel Eyes". Geez, that's what one of the characters called Clint Eastwood in the Good The Bad And The Ugly. Kinda made me wonder which one I was, although I figure...

I got unloaded promptly this morning and beat feet up here to Georgetown for the reload. When I got here I found that the load (military crane assemblies) wasn't ready yet. The guy said they would "probably" be ready around 3:00. As this was about 11:00 I obviously had some time to kill. I dropped my trailer in the middle of their lot and bobtailed a few miles South to the Premium Outlets center where I could get a bite to eat and do some window shopping and girl watching while enjoying th...