<p>Here is a little known fact.....birds love truck drivers! It's true! You see we drive across the roads of America gathering bugs on our grills. Then we stop at a rest area or truck stop and the next thing you known ....it's dinner time! </p>
<p>That's right....the little birdies sit on your hood and get the free pickins' off your truck. It's a smorgasbord of beetles, butterflies, bees and other crunchie edibles!
See truckers are environmentally friendly!
Last week we picked up a load from Kentucky to take to California. California doesn't bother us much because we have the chance to see family of we don't get a load back east quickly. So I was driving through Texas and just as I got to Amarillo we got the call....turn around and bring the shipment back to the shipper, they made a mistake! Yeesh! So what do you do? Turn around!
So we drove all the way back to Kentucky. No family visits this trip! We did get some cool post cards in Oklahoma though so the trip wasn't a total loss and they do have some funny looking cows! Ha!
I realize that we all grow up differently. Some with parents, some without. Some go to church, some don't. Some grow up in rural areas, some in the heart of the big city. Some have money, some barely get by.
We are a diverse nation of race, religion, color, ethnic background and values. Each of us are just a small drop of water in an endless sea of struggling to pay bills, make a living and trying to etch out some vacation time.
But do you have the faintest idea of right and wrong? Don't you for a moment consider the other guy? Is it really all about you?
I admit most of my life is about me and my desires. I don't sit around and listen to music I don't enjoy or use shampoo that I hate the smell of just in the name of "personal growth".
I do however occasionally allow a car in front of me during a traffic jam, hold the door open for the person behind me and quite often say the words thank you.
It seems to me that there is less of that going on every day....
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!
