You may recall our recounting of eating at The Jalepeno Tree in Marshal, TX awhile back. Naive, we might be, but we did not know at that time that it was a chain, but we're happy that it is.
Thursday night thinking about how to execute our 1408 mile trip to Laredo, TX with a 1000 live load I had figured; leave CN about noon and then cover about 350 miles, then 450 Sat and 450 Sun and about 150 on Monday and we could deliver at about 1000 on Monday and be ready for our next load.
As usual we got there early, about 0830 and were loaded by 0900. Headed back to the Pilot to scale the 43,690 lb load. Before driving onto the scale I set the tandems in the 10th hole. When I got the scale receipt it was dead on. So by 0915 we were on the way. Now we can't just stop at 350 miles can we ? Nope, we covered 450 and got to Charleston, MO. Took our walk with weights and then walked about 1/2 miles to a Dairy Queen. See how that works; calories out - calories in.
As we headed out yesterday Teresa was checking for another Jalepeno Tree. Yep, there's one in Mesquite, TX, right on I635 where we were headed in Dallas. So we pushed it 579 miles and got there for dinner. Yummm, they get our hearty recommendation. We then finished up 10 miles later at the Dallas OC. Now we have only 420 left for today to Laredo and we'll make it to the OC early this afternoon and deliver early tomorrow morning.
One more comment on the digital to analog converter; seems to work very well in many locales.
We got great signal in Charleston and here in Dallas. I'm guessing that all of the stations have turned on their digital signals but have not turned off their analog signals and will not until the official June 12th cutoff.
Time to call my Mom and hit the road. If you're in Texas - hit the Jalepeno Tree !!!
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