Hot in Texas

We enjoyed our morning in Sulphur Springs, TX. Pleasant weather long walk. No TV signal. Can you believe it. Teresa watched the entire season of DWTS and saw the final dancing on Monday night, then with no signal in Sulphur Springs she didn't get to see the final episode Tuesday night. Of course she read all about it Wednesday morning, but that's not quite the same. She even went into the Pilot to see if she could watch it there but they did not get ABC,
Oh well, she's still with me, take more than that to knock Mrs. Boss off the truck. Thank goodness for me.

We left about 1000 with what I figured was plenty of time to travel 60 miles to Hawkins to pick up our load of water. Well, I got lost. No, not a little lost, real lost. Not like in downtown Chicago where you might be off a block or two, but like twenty miles. Don't give me any crap, I even stopped and asked for directions TWICE. They didn't help a lot as there were no places to turn the big orange thing around.

Of course in the meantime I'm getting anxious about potentially missing my 2000 delivery in Houston. Sometime enroute to Houston we got our next w/a, which I'll cover in a minute. We made it to Houston and were about 2 miles away and the railroad crossing we had to go through was messing up. No trains but the lights were going off and the bars were down. Drivers were going through and under. But if you're a truck driver that can be a real career ending move, even if it doesn't look like there are any trains. Needless to say we did not mess with it, rather wormed our way around and arrived at 1930 and were unloaded by 2030.

Back to our next w/a, it was a live load in La Porte, TX. We were on the NW edge of Houston and La Porte is on the SE edge of Houston actually about 35 miles away. We were supposed to be there at 0800 and I needed fuel. Since we arrived at 1930 and stayed on their property we were able to leave at 0530 this morning and get across town and get fuel and arrive by 0730. Technically, I'm not sure how they would have calculated that pickup for us since only by creative logging could we have made it. But we did.

We're at the Dallas OC for the evening and will head out at 0600 to cross Dallas and deliver in Aubrey, TX

Got a text from Scott yesterday that "Friday is baby day."