Tuesday, August 19, 2008

A FIRST !!!

Greetings from the Funny Lady,

I'm writing to you today because right now the Funny Man is driving and when he stops driving all he wants to do is read. Reading is pretty much what I do when I'm not looking at the scenery and/or napping. Funny because reading in kinda like yawning, so there you have it.
We decided instead of letting all our fans down, I would write during the afternoon, then Bob could finish up and post swiftly in the evening.

We left off riding bikes on Jacksonville Beach, then we chatted w/ the hunky lifeguards at the oldest Red CrossLifeguard building on the east coast (really interesting).
Finally got a load on Friday at noon going to Grovepoint, OH.Drove to pickup in Savana at the Georgia Port Authority. Sorry no pics, but was really cool being deep inside w/ all the freighters, cranes, railroads, trucks, etc. Heavy duty security as they searched the contents of the cab, all storage areas, and mirror searched all around and bottom of truck and trailer. We passed and picked up Kmart lawn/garden products probably shipped from China.

The night before we picked up the trailer we bobtailed to historic downtown Savana. Walking to Paula Dean's "Lady and Sons" restaurant, saw smoke and flames coming from a manhole cover. Saw lots of hunky fireman and policeas they cordoned of the last two streets for a 9 block stretch. Everything was fine until the power went out, but our food was already done so we ate and still had a wonderful Friday evening down on the wharf watching people (mostly foreigners).
Honked to Ron and family on our way thru Charlotte.

Delivered in OH late Sunday afternoon and picked up another load right away from WalMart distribution center (ginormous!) goingto Tampa, FL by Wed 8am. We'll if you were watching the weather channel, you know hurricane Faye was heading that way and going to hit land on Tuesday. So Monday afternoon, we got redirected to drop the load at Atlanta OC, which we did this morning (Tues). Made our run to WalMart for groceries and now are taking a 44,000 lb load with sacks of calcium carbonate (any guesses what it's for?) to Mobile, AL.
And there you have the first report from the Funny Lady !

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