So we're having a rough week....seems we're having a little difficulty getting back into the swing of things since our May vacation. Having little runs without anything of substance makes life difficult!
Granted our current location in Vermont isn't a hot spot of activity for FedEx but we were in NY and nothing was happening there....NH either last week for that matter.
So we cry the blues and then something I know will make me feel better rolls by! You just don't see this everywhere!!!!
Someone once said somewhere, "The whole country is my backyard." That was true for us this weekend. We were on the border of Maine and New Hampshire waiting for a load and decided to take advantage of our location and visit our backyard.
We spent time in a small coastal town in Maine (New Harbor) where a friend of ours used to live and I got to eat my first whole lobster. Of course we subsequently had crab cakes, crab rolls and lobster rolls after that too but not all at once. Very good stuff! Then we spent the following day and morning in the Bar Harbor area and explored Arcadia National Park.
It threatened rain all day on Saturday but we didn't let it dampen our spirits and had an great day. Sunday brought rain and awesome waves to the coast that were magnificent.
Definitely worth the trip and I would recommend it to anyone who has a few dollars to spend! It's expensive but these days what isn't? Sometimes those few extra charges on the credit card are worth it!
So we get a little maintenance done on the reefer unit, which turns into all new belts. Of course they don't have all the belts so we have to wait to get it fixed. In the meantime Fedex takes our flag off for Tval and we can no longer run reefer loads.
So we stop after our next delivery to get the belts put on and find out we have a bad hose. But they don't have the hose so we have to come back the next day. The next day we show up, they switch out the hose.....but wait it wasn't the hose.....now its the water pump! Isn't that special?!?!???!!!!!
Life of an expediter!
Picture it....New Jersey turnpike, rush hour, accident blocking 5 lanes of traffic.....
Yet somehow we all managed to move along at a slow crawl. Those impatient drivers changing from one lane to another because they think it will get them home faster.
Now the fly in the soup ......you gotta pee.
You've been on the Turnpike an hour and could be here another one at the very least. Your pushing 60 years old, have a head of gray hair, drive a nice fancy silver car that matches your hair.
The other fly.....you can't hold it a second longer.
So as a highway full of people look on you pull over to the shoulder. Get out of your car dressed in a nice pair of khaki pants and button down shirt and frantically look for a place to pee.
Alas, that row of trees you thought you could quickly disappear into is really a fence line overgrown with weeds. Yikes! Now what? Only one thing left to do! Turn your back and breath a sigh of relief!
Oh yeah and hope no one notices or blogs about it!
Yes we had an excellent two week vacation! I personally think that should be the minimum time spent at home....you get paperwork done, bills paid, there's time to see friends and family and take care of yourself!
As we left on Monday I realized how much I enjoyed the job.....then around 3am I realized how much I hate the job! LOL. But isn't it like that with all jobs? It certainly is! So just like life, you take the good with the bad.
We are making some cool military deliveries though......
It's amazing when you travel that sometimes you can go in and out of a storm so quickly and others are days and days of rain. This was after a nice thunderstorm....taken one handed at 65 mph. Pretty good huh?
Well I have to say that some places have a deeper southern drawl than others. Here in Florence SC it's pretty thick. But if you spend the time talking to people you begin to realize that it's not an accent, it's an attitude!
These people are warm, friendly and loooove to talk about anything at all.
I'm in love with the south (even though its hot)!
