4 am.  Putting Nashville in our rearview mirror and glad of it.   Something about this town that I just don’t care for.   The traffic is awful no matter what time of day and it just seems dirty.   I can’t explain it really but glad to be moving on.   

Heading to Union City, Georgia this am.  Just outside of Atlanta.   We have 32,000 pounds of Kraft singles and Velveeta cheese.   No temptation on my part.  When Gregory was little Marchie always kept a big log of Velveeta in the fridge for him.  She had that old Tupperware rectangle box that it went in and he’d get in it every time he went over.   

Got our load of cheese dropped off and got our next trip.  Headed to Simpsonville, South Carolina for pick up and taking whatever it is to Laredo, Texas again for it to go to Mexico.   

71 degrees here in South Carolina.  Pretty day. 

Got to Simpsonville and picked up our load of 36,000 pounds of plastic wrap.    

Have to tell you a funny.   At the gatehouse the guard was a little old lady.   We had never been there before so Greg was asking her where to go.  She starts to tell him and he had another question.   Apparently she didn’t like questions.   She told him “The virtue of being wise is to listen”.  I think this meant shut up and let me finish but being in the south she has to say it nicely.   I was dying holding in the laughter until after we got past the gate.   She was so funny!    This little old 5 foot woman being so bossy with truck drivers.   I bet they all minded her too.  I know Greg did.  Haha 

After our load we were about out of time so didn’t get very far.   We have stopped in Piedmont, SC for the night.   1300 miles to go to Laredo.  

We decided to go in to McDonald’s for a salad for dinner and while there this guy behind us gets up and leaves his cell phone and drink on the table.  He’s gone a few minutes and this lady comes up and says “I wonder if he knows he left his cell phone”?   Greg told her he would miss it and be back for it but she said she would take it to the counter and turn it in for him just in case.   The guy comes back from the bathroom looking for his phone.   We told him a woman said she was taking it to the counter.   He said why would she do that?  I was coming right back.  Well, long story short the phone wasn’t at the counter.  He checked there and the truck stop desk just to be sure and no phone was turned in.   Greg tried calling it but we didn’t hear it ring.   He looked and questioned several people but never found it.  Greg loaned him his phone so he could call Verizon and his job.  They turned the phone off but he is out of luck.  They can’t trace it.    Felt sorry for him but not much else to do.   Moral of the story – don’t leave an expensive cell phone on a table in McDonald’s and walk off.   

While hanging around waiting for him to use the phone a guy named Ray started talking to us.  Real nice guy from Texas with lots of stories to tell.  Really interesting meeting him.   He talked a lot about his wife so he may have been a little home sick.  He said they were 70 and this past summer he was able to take her to Washington state and how much he enjoyed hearing her excitement and joy of the trip.   

Well, we have had quite the day so off to bed.   Goodnight y’all.