Well, change of plans.   This is why we didn’t tell the kids we would be there Saturday.  Just in case.   Got a call about midnight that they wanted to swap our load with another guy because his brother died and he needed to get to Florida ASAP.   So Greg said ok.   Now we have a trip back to Oklahoma.  They are trying to route us back to Florida “but it is going to be very difficult”.   His manager called this morning and said “why did you take the swap? We had you headed home?”   What were we supposed to do.  The guy’s brother died.  Last time Greg asked if he had to take the swap and she said “well it’s nice because you may need a favor some day”.  Make up your mind!   Running my own business for so many years I forgot what working with other people is like.

So, we are heading to get the trailer washed out and headed to Rich Products in Lebanon, TN then to Oklahoma.   I pray they can get us back to Florida this weekend!

Oh the lovely world of truck driving.  LOL.  We spent three hours getting the truck loaded (With 34,000 pounds of different kinds of shrimp) and found out we are swapping trailers with someone again.   They have found us another trip to Florida so I can’t complain.  So now we are headed back to the truck stop we were in this Morning to wait for the guy to show up “sometime before 6 pm”.    At least I will have time for a shower!

Got a shower and a nap and the guy shows up to switch trailers.   5 o’clock so even a little early!  Yay!   Now we can drive about 4 more hours tonight.   This trip is a two parter.  First part goes to Macclenny,Florida and then on to Arcadia which is real close to the kids!!

Well, we didn’t get far.  About an hour outside of Nashville it started snowing pretty hard.   We made it a few more miles to a truck stop and pulled over.   It is coming down fast and hard.   Weather report says we are supposed to get 2-3 inches tonight and black ice around Atlanta so its a good thing we are stopping here.  Hopefully they will have had time to get the roads clear around Atlanta by the time we get up and out.

Driver here: Chickens, helicopters, goats, cows and horses and now snow.  What a variety.  Looks like the snow is more rain now.  If it doesn’t freeze we will be alright.

This is the same truck stop where we met the guy that toured with the Grateful Dead so many years ago.  You may or may not remember that story from an earlier blog.  This blog has helped us remember so many things that we would otherwise forget as the days seem to run together out here on the road.

Speaking of time, it seems to expand out here on the road.  Looking back it has only been 29 days since we started the blog but it seems like years.  Not that time seems to drag by, but it may be due to the fact that your whole day is spent concentrating and traveling.  Maybe it has something to do with the motion.  Don’t know.  Someone should do a study.  Any grant writers out there?  I’m sure the government has a spare mil lying around they would be glad to throw at a study that studies the relationship between time and travel.  As Einstein theorized, if you traveled at the speed of light time would stand still.  So maybe at 60 miles an hour it slows down, if only slightly.  But done daily would be somewhat noticeable.

Okay, I am really sleepy now.  Good night and God Bless.

Snow really started coming down in a hurry.

Helicopters flying around Nashville.

Tennessee countryside.

LP Field. Home of the Tennessee Titans.

Doesnt this AT&T building look like a Transformer?