Starting out

This is the beginning of something I probably should have started several weeks ago, but I didn't know this site existed. My husband Kevin works for Averitt trucking at the moment. In a month he will have a full year of total driving experience and we plan to go with someone who pays a bit better.

The following will be brief comments on the places we have gone in the last 2 weeks. I will give better details on newer entries.

Began by going to Maryland, I don't remember what we carried or what it was exactly.

On October 15th, we picked up a loaded trailer in Roanoke VA and went to Newark Deleware. We carried plastic pellets and escaped most backed up traffic this day, and we ate a Cinnabon, it's been SO long since we had one, but we had to pick up a load in York PA later that day. We were late because there is not enough time to go through Baltimore traffic and up a very backed up I-83 and still get there on time. The place we picked up cheese and animal crackers and delivered to London Kentucky the next day, but it was late because the load planners screwed it up and they wouldn't take it.

In this time, I didn't have the laptop and was desperate for an internet connection. We dropped at a Averitt yard, TRIED to get to Golden Corral to have a nice meal but didn't make it and ended up at a Cracker Barrel. I had never eatten at one before and was dubious about it. As we walked in, the previous hostess was having some kind of break down and was asking her coworker to cover her shift, she seemed really upset and we didn't see her again. The waitress seated us and we ordered. I had southern style chicken dumplings, which are very different from the dumplings I cook. It was tasty though. The manager gave us an offer of free dessert, but we declined so he filled up a to-go box with more dumplings instead and then we spent the night at the London Truck stop, which had free wi-fi. Yay.


The next day, we made our way to Battle Creek Michigan to pick up some paper. We THOUGHT it was boxes for cereal or something like adverts, but it was just chewed up paper. The place we loaded at hadhuge stacks of those compacted cardboard bales most stores make out of their packaging.

On to Kentucky to deliver this paper.


We went through Knoxville next and picked up...something...or delivered something else. I forget this one.

Next though, we went to Lawrenceburg TN, and this is the home of presidential candidate Fred Thompson. I had no idea before we went there, I only know because there was picture of his beaming mug (no, he was frowning as always) on the welcome sign to the town. Honestly? You are PROUD of him? ..... Seriously?

We dropped that trailer at an Averitt yard in Fayetteville TN. That town is hicks ville. The teenagers. Damn Teenagers. They were haning out at the Walmart in town as we left. I guess, drag racing in the parking lot is all there is to do there?

As we left town, we went on a shortcut from there to Knoxville (well, to I-26 through Chattanooga) and saw a drunk driver pass us, miss their exit, drive right into a ditch and then out again. I hope they really damaged their car, and I hope it doesn't run anymore. The worlkd needs less drunks.

Took a rest somewhere on the Georgia side of Chattanooga and continued on home in the morning.

That part of Tennesse smells like a sewage plant. I began to assume there was a dried up river nearby, since all of that area and Virginia are in a drought right now.

We saw what looked to me like a black wolf, near the Cherokee National Forest, but the internet seems to think it was a really rare black coyote. It was all black except some white hairs on it's nose. It was a perfect viewing opportunity for us, it came out of the woods, looked at the Freeway and as we drove past, leapt back into the woods. It was very neat and quick. I have no idea how it carried it's tail, and that seems to be the only way I would have known.

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