Up at 1 am to see if our door is ready.  Not due until 2:30 am but sometimes get lucky and we did or so we thought.  They gave us a door to back in to and so we got all set up.   About the time Greg sets the brake the lady from inside comes out and says the shipping manager fell and hit her head and they are going to have to take her to the hospital and it will be a while before somebody else gets here who can unload.   Sorry to hear that and hope she is okay.   Our clock doesn’t start again until 5:30 so our time is ok.  They got us unloaded about 6:30 which is good.  Our next pick up is only 14 miles away and it’s going to Alabama.   We are going to Florida the weekend of the 13th so I figure they may keep us in the south this next weekend.  Oh joy!   I am really enjoying the cool weather.  We get to the next place and they load us in about 10 minutes.  Only one container of plastic resin liquid or Elastoflex apparently.  Not sure what it’s used for but we have 4,500 pounds of it.  

Well our night in the hotel is coming back to bite me – literally.   I think I got in to bed bugs.   I have a bunch of bites on my left arm, face, chest hand and foot, which is the side I sleep on, and they itch!!  Greg never gets bitten by anything.   We can walk through Mosquitos and I get eaten alive and he comes out without one bite so of course the bed bugs didn’t bother him any.   I think we need to really avoid anything owned or run by Indians.  Their truck stops and now their motel, are just never clean.   I guess they have a different idea of what that is than we do.   Oh well.  I’ll have to buy some Benadryl when we stop.  

DG:  I guess you can say I am naturally repellent.  She’s right, bugs rarely bother me. That’s true also about the Indian run truck stops we visit. We always know what to expect when we walk in the door and see them behind the counter.  To be clear we are talking about gas station and not casino Indians. The difference is obvious. 

So here we are in Glendake, KY.  Just south of Louisville.  We will make our stop a day early. Here’s hoping they will unload us. Surely they are anxious to get their resin.  This is the lightest load we’ve had and the second lightest I’ve had since starting this career.

We stopped at a Petro truck stop which is the same as TA as they were the only one in the area that had laundry facilities.  I think the other truck stops are missing out on some profit by not having laundry. Oh well, not my business. 

If there is no blog Friday morning it’s because we won the lottery tonight. I will call a limo service, leave the truck right where it sits and we may never be heard from again. Not.  I would have to complete the trip I think. I don’t know. I hope I am confronted with that decision in the morning.  That would be a pleasant dilemma to have. 

Well, better get to sleep so Santa will come. 

Love to all and God bless.