Water,,the beauty and the beast !!!

These are some views and images of water in its many forms,,, some beautiful , some impressive, some ugly,,!!!!!

Prairie storms,

The wonderful Rockies

The Frassure Canyon,,from Cache Creek to Hope in BC.

The Floods of the mid-west

Is A Truck A Living Thing ???

Why should i pose such a deep and meeningful qustion,when most of what i write is utter drivel???
Well i think my truck has its own Spirit,,,off course it does you bimbo,you drive for Spirit..!!!
Thats not what i ment,i think my truck has its own Spirit and a will of its own......
Why ????
Last sunday whilst emptying my pretty beast i lost my cell phone,,no ,i should rephrase that, my truck ate my cell phone ????
She gobbled it up and did her darndest not to let me have it back...
After 20mins of searching my cell was located in the front heater vent,tucked deep in the bowels of dash board,,???
So with lots of cursing and cussing,the only way to retrieve my phone was to dismantle just about everything,to drill holes in the heating ducts,pass bent wire coat hangers through and hope and pray that my cell would pop out at some time...
5 hours latter,it popped out,,my trucks now resembled a sieve,, with bits missing..
Why would my truck be so nasty to me,,??? maybe coz i call her names,and dont get on to well with her,, hell knows no fury like a woman scorned,, so i'll try and be really nice to her,and maybe she wont eat my things....

Cross Country Ramblings

Partof myload,,a tridem trailer bound for a marina in Clinton CN

Took my first load cross country,heading east,not going via the US but taking the shorter route through Ontario...Ive been to Toronto before and was not to impressed,so expected no great things of the rest of Ontario,,,,,Ooops

How wrong could i have been..??? its just sooooooo pretty..

There is just one pretty lake after another intersperrsed with pine forests,,long empty highways with bouncing Bambis and bears,,yes a real life Yogi galloped in front of me,all big brown and fluffy,,so cute !!!!!

Stopped ot a local hostelry,that was most friendly and very accomodating,so much so i was allowed to lick a one of the chicks there ????????

See,,me licking a chick on a stick

Its a long drive going this way using the trans canada,speed limits are strictly enforced,and its all only 2 lane,but i still made good time and crossed into the states at the cornwall border,,,

Once into the US i went to bed,,up early tho 3am to run down thru New York state then New Hampshire,into a load of false teeth ???? Mass o chew sets ??? made a quick delivery just south of Boston,,then stopped for tea. We are so civilized here .. Called my customer in Clinton CN,who gave a few tips on how best to drive to his marina,and arrived there safe and dry to unload straight off,,

It was so nice to deliver to a customer that was not only friendly but allso had respect for a driver,i was offerd pizza and use of the showers and phone without even asking,,,10 points for those guys...

Empty,i called in for my reload,which was in Willmington in Delaware,that happens to be south of New York City,,,oh bugger.

There is no good way to navigate through NYC,only less yucky ways..so i implemented plan B, which was to go to bed....then leave at 3am and blast through the middle when there would be slightly less traffic..

My master plan paid of well and arrived at my pick up point in good time,,,10 points for me!!

Once loaded,my brain when into happy mode,after having been out for 3 weeks i was going home,,and 4 days off to ,1 cut my lawn ,which was now 16inches tall...2 pay my bills..3 do my washing 4 do some shopping,,5 do some women ???? 6 have a bloody well erned rest 7 write up my blog,,,

Well ive done most of the above,,not telling which are still pending..

A 2 Week Epic ????

Dear reader,

This is going to be a loooooooooooooong post,so i suggest you get some snacks and beers in at the outset,,,,,

The journey began pretty much as normal,,,,,there's nothing normal with you...!!!!
Load machines for Florida,,that changed 10 mins after i arrived.
The importers had realised that most of the shipment was destined for Salt Lake City Utah, so i should deliver there and not in Orlando..

Ok plan B... Crossed into the US and headed west, not south and east.Spent the nite in Fargo then crossed North Dakota,into Montana,where i passed a sleeping Ken (fellow Spirit driver) sent him a text to let him know id be in Billings FJ that nite,,

The next day 2 Spirits set off serching for Yogi bear in the Yellowstone Park ???? tried this before in the winter,,it hadn't occured to me that he would be hibernating..

2 very pretty Spirit trucks not working but enjoying the mountain air...dont tell the boss tho

Just off to the right behind the last tree,you may just see Yogi,,,

As ive mentioned before,Ken moaned coz i dont have a CB,,so we shant repeat that bit...

Its just so pretty up here,and we made great progress,,,mine quicker than Kens,,the old slow coach..

Well we trundled on farther south,down off the Rockies and onto Hwy 15,just north of SLC,we parted company as Ken was headed to Fresno Ca.

I was way a head of time,and decided to call the customer to see if i could unload a day early,which i did..luckely for me.

I informed Scott my boss,,not so lucky for me..

He had a reload in the pipe line, and would send details shortly ????

So i headed for the showers as it was really hot and sticky,

The text message said ,, reload in Nogales on the Mexican border Water Melons for Calgary..

It was at this point that i thought Scott was bonkers ..!!! so i phoned in and reminded him that i have an open flat deck trailer and not a reffer,and that i was 850 miles from Nogales..

No problem he says, the customer knows that and has agreed to it ???????

I had to remind myself to breath,,, load 57 pallets of water melons..on a flat trailer...all in cardboard boxes...from Mexico to calgary,,Oh what fun.!!!

Running the Canyons

I headed 2 hours farther south of Salt Lake,then cut acroos to Hwy 89,,on the map it looked like a good route,,,and it was.

Sorry if the quality is not upto Spielburg standards,but driving a 72ft semi down a narrow canyon whilst drinkin a coffee,eating a burger,texting a friend on the cell,smoking a cigi and filming aint easy....Gremmie the multi tasking expert,,

Life on Mars

Yes there is life on Mars ??? yes coz i was there,,???

Driving across the Red Planet is a bit wierd tho..!!!!! And yes if you listen carefully that was my cell phone going cling cling

It was ashame that the weather wasnt so good,but the landscape was amaizing,crossing the Navarjo nations lands down towards the Grand Canyon

I arrived in Nogales late evening had a Mexican supper,then sat on the loo for an hour,,,,to much info here,please dont elaborate...!!!!

The way of life down here moves in sloooooooooow motion,the simple act of booking in to load is a major diplomatic procedure,conducted in a multitude of langauges,none of which resemble english

But with hands and feet, and a big cheesy smile they agreed to load right away,,,right away in mexican meens sometime today

Once loaded all i had to do was put my tarps on,as luck would have it a dust storm blew in, which made the job so much easier

The finneshed product..

I left Nogales hot and sweaty and coverd in dust,, the next truck stop is only 100 miles away in Casa Grande AZ, so thats were i headed A.S.A.P, driving past Tuscon ive tried to photograph the sand storms,the sky isn't grey just dusty ????

At this point i think we should all take a break,,my fingers are going to sleep...

So fingers well rested let us continue,,,,

Spent the nite in casa Grande,twidled arround on the internet,and got wet ???? my truck leaks....which reminds me i should go for a pee..

The story of the leaking cab i have allready documented..

up early the next day and headed for Calgary,time was not of the essence so i enjoyed the views..

Passing through Flagstaff Az some thing wierd happend ???

It snowed..???? Now hold on a bit,yesterday was 35c warm and windy,,follwed by a tropical rain storm,,and now snow ????

Oh well, cant change the weather,so onwards and upwards to Calgary,driving through Mars again,,,

On route to Calgary i made a quick lunch stop at Lyndons,and enjoyed his hospitallity and great food,,

My drop in Calgary was a midnite book in,, so after a quick nap in the early evening i handed my papers to the goods in girl,who took great delight in telling me that they have no space for my melons and that i will have to come back in 24hrs...!!!!

But super gremmie had allready anticipated this and had removed his tarps and straps,and as it was about to Pee down,she had no other choice than to unload and double quick..

Once empty,it was bed time for teddy bears,,,,!!

The next morn after a quick chat with Scott,i headed east from Calgary to pick up a load of tooth picks for Wyoming..?????

Ok so they are telegraph poles,but a giant would use them as tooth pics....

The trip down was dogged by breakdowns,but i did at long last arrive to unload,then head across state to the town of Grey Bull up in the mountains,,then home sweet home..