5:30. Up and on the road.   It’s still dark.   The day shouldn’t be able to start when it’s still dark!   Ok.  Enough whining.  

6:30  Arrived at stop in Jessup, PA.  Still dark but at least the guard has a good sense of humor and is very awake at this time of the morning.  

We are on the top of a hill and looking over the city of Jessup.   

DG:  Makes me think of the bluegrass song about uncle Penn. “High on a hill and above the town, Uncle Penn played the fiddle.  Lord how it would ring.  You could hear it talk, you could hear it sing.”  You know. 

It’s been an hour and a half and they have stopped shaking the box. My light is still red so they are either taking a break or counting.  Either way I can’t move till I get a green light. 

Alerted dispatch that I should be done soon and asked if they had a pre planned trip for us. Crickets. What are they doing down there?  Come on.  Would just like to know what my day is going to be like. 

Waiting. Waiting. Waiting some more. Think I’ll have an avocado. Usually if I get busy with something things start moving. 

Annie – Got our trip.  Heading to Lowville, NY for load to Fort Worth, Texas.   I’m enjoying this cool weather but oh well.    Greg’s whining so I guess fair is fair.  South we go.  After we go further north.   In Pennsylvania we were in the Pocono’s.  Now we are headed to the Adirondacks.  The trees get more colorful as we go.   Doubt we can say the same as we head to Texas.  

DG:  I think I lost more entries. Maybe I was just thinking I typed more. 

We are in Lowville, NY at a Kraft cheese plant. Our appointment was for 1:00 pm, I was two hours late and they weren’t ready. Nor at 7:00 pm are they ready. We wait. My clock is done so Annie and I get to spend a romantic evening in the Adirondak mountains in a beautiful chalet overlooking the valley. Okay, not really. Another night in the truck in a shipper’s parking lot. We won’t be the only ones. 

Finished loading around 1:00 am. I have no time on the clock and about two and a half hours to reset the ten. So I ask the guy if we can stay there and he says yea so we hit the hay.  We sleep till about 5:30 and start he pretrip. On the road by six we make pretty good time across up state Nee York, a corner of Pennsylvania and into Ohio just north of Columbus.  We find a rest area thinking it would be like the ones on I-80, but it’s not. For some reason the north/south rest area are like most others with bathrooms and vending. The east/west rest areas are really nice with free showers, food court and convenience shopping. Anyway, once your in the truck you could be anywhere. 

Two more long days of driving ahead. Time to rest. God bless.