OUR NEW ADDITION

Here he is!!

Coltin Ted

Pictures of NC Trip

Golf course in NC

(It has the only par 6 hole)

The fruit in CA

The wild flowers in the median of CA

The red dirt in OK

Building in Memphis TN

Jimmy Johnson, Nascar driver
Lowes Motor Speedway, NC

Race cars at Lowes

Our NC Trip

Mt. Hood in OR

The bridge over the Columbia River

After sitting in NC for 3 days, we left there to go to Laurel MD to pick up milk to take to Springfield MO. We drove empty, across KS, to Lamar CO and picked up sunflower oil. We took it to Santa Fe Springs CA. We then picked up milk to take to Lake Norden SD. Mark dropped me off in UT so I could come home. After delivering there, he came home empty.

We are on the road again. We left home with just the truck, no trailer. One of the drivers took the load to Boise that Dad was suppose to take. We went to Yakima and picked up a trailer and got it loaded with apple juice. We took it to Dunnigan, CA where we met another driver. We traded trailers and we got the load of canola oil. We went down to Bakersfield and then over to Barstow. We got on I40 which went through AZ, NM, TX, OK, AR, TN and then into NC. We are there now. We unloaded early this morning at Frito-Lay and will wash the trailer in the morning. Then we will drive to Atlanta, GA (going through SC) and pick up defoamer for Simplots in Nampa and Caldwell. This is a quick post so I will post more later.

Still Going.

We are sitting in the Toronto area. We got here last night, thought we would unload today but things have changed. Apparently the place we delivered to is not equipped with tanks so they are unloading as needed. They hope to have it unloaded sometime tomorrow but not sure. They were thinking, we would just drop the trailer and then when the next load came, they would leave the full trailer and take the empty one. The next one is not suppose to get here till sometime next week. They also didn't know it would cost so much to do that. We are getting paid for sitting here but not sure how much. They can't plan what to do with us since we are not sure when we will be done. The interesting life of truckers.

Bridge going into California, over the Colorado River, on I40
Birds flying over the Interstate 80 in Nebraska. Some of them were Snow Geese.

The ice forming on the hubs of the truck tires.

Donner Lake

Going over Donner Pass

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MORE TRUCK

More trucking news. I hit the wrong button and it posted when I wasn't ready to.
We got to MN by going through NV, UT, WY, SD, then MN. Then we headed towards CO, empty. Dad doesn't like to have to drive that far empty, it doesn't pay. We stopped in Lincoln, NE to wash. That was Valentine's Day. We stayed the night there at the truck washing place. We were able to unhook the trailer, leave it there and drove to Red Lobster and Wal-Mart.
After getting washed, we drove to Auora, NE. We attended church there. This is where the Clayson family goes to church. He was the Ag shop teacher at Declo for several years and they lived in our ward for a while. Shane is now in the Branch Presidency. There was about 70 people there. Dad attended this ward last May. He didn't know the Claysons lived there.
We then drove to Lamar, CO. There we loaded sunflower oil on to take to Arbuckle, CA. We took the southern route so we wouldn't have to put chains on the truck. This took us through NM, AZ, and into CA. Arbuckle is up north of Sacramento.
After unloading, we got washed at the same place and then loaded with canola oil. We took it to Yakima, WA. We got a motel room and it had a laundry room. I washed clothes since we were running low and clean ones. Dad went and unloaded and dropped his trailer at the Yard that Idaho Milk has there. The next day, we got another trailer that was loaded with apple juice that we are taking to Etibocoke, Ontario, Canda. This trip has taken us through ID, MT, WY, SD. That is where we are right now. Sioux Falls, SD. We will continue on in the morning. We don't know where we will be going but hopefully towards home.
We miss each of you and love you.