Good morning everyone. Up at an early hour again. Greg got up at 4:30 but told me to stay in bed if I wanted to so I did but the rocking and bumping and bouncing only makes me nauseous so I’m up now too.

Stopped at a rest area in Illinois and we started getting messages that the refer (refrigerated trailer) had a critical error. I’m not worried since it’s set at 27 and the temp is 9 with a windchill of -8. Don’t even know why we have it on in this weather. It’s not going to thaw out. Anyway, Greg had to hit some reset buttons and see if we can fix whatever’s going on.

We are in to Illinois now and it is finally getting warmer.  It’s 34.  Greg has finally stopped crying so much.  Lol.

We passed through Kentucky on our way to Tennessee tonight.  Did you hear us yell hi?   Probably not all the way from Paducah but our thoughts were with you guys there tonight. We saw quite a bit of snow passing through.   More so than we saw in Iowa this last trip.   Now thats surprising.

We have stopped at a Truck stop in the heart of Nashville tonight.   Right now we are across the street from downtown.   Pretty neat skyline.    Got a long drive again tomorrow. We are due to hit Orlando at 11 am on Thursday!!  Should get a couple of days with my babies!!

Well, what a day.  Refer problems, cold weather, I get to the truck stop with 12 minutes left on my clock and I have to do a 10 minute post trip inspection.  Talk about cutting it close.  Already had one hours of service violation this week.  Another one within 30 days and I could get written up.  Or worse.  Not sure.  I guess I just like living on the edge of danger.  That being said I added another check off to my list, I bumped a guy’s trailer trying to park tonight.  I didn’t even know I had hit him.  I tried to get into a spot that was too tight and backed out and parked in another area of the lot.  Next thing I know this guy is taking pictures of my license plate and truck.  I ask him what he is doing and he says I hit his trailer.  So, I go look and sure enough there is a small dent on my trailer about the height of the light I knocked off of his trailer.  Not sure what that’s going to cost me.  Reported it to the company.  Waiting to hear back.  I’m sure there is some DOT report I will be involved with.  The irony here is I just got a notice this morning that I got some sort of safety award for the week.  Go figure.

Oh well, stuff happens huh.

I didn’t see where Annie explained the tire tracks in the snow in several of the pictures below so I will mention that they are on a lake.  Don’t know about you, but I don’t think it could get cold enough for me to feel safe driving a vehicle on a lake.  Maybe in Antarctica.  But you won’t catch me there, ever.  Oh, and the helicopter shot was taken close to Fort Campbell.  There were two others flying around but didn’t get pictures of those.

I think I said before there are places in other states that look similar to Kentucky, but the thing I noticed today, no matter how close they resemble our fine Commonwealth, they are not it and it is plainly obvious to me when I am in Kentucky.  It just “feels” different.

Well, it looks like we are headed for warmer weather and yes, I was crying when the temp was in the single digits and below.  It’s just not right.  Early morning, so I will say Good Night and God Bless.  Keep the shiny side up and eyes on the road.  That goes for all of us.