Hey Folks
Monday night I got back home after being on the road 26 or 27 days, something like that. Yuck. By rights I could take 4 days off, and at first I wasn't going to since if i got back on the truck on saturday there might not be any loads for me to haul, but right now I'm absorbed in the gloriousness of being at home so I'll take the four days.
Last night I was talking to a friend on the phone and he tipped me off to the GIMP freeware image editing program. So tonight when I dropped by the rents' house to see if I might get a free dinner out of them and they weren't home I went down to the Haymarket Cafe in Northampton Mass and discovered that they had usable wifi, so I downloaded Gimp. Don't know if I have all that I need; i didn't get the manuals or tutorials but I'll grab them next time i've got wifi. so hopfully soon my blogs will have pictures again.
Being at home now I guess I could post some pics, but I'm feelilng lazy. I'm at the point in trucking that I've seen a lot of the same places over and over again and I'm not taking so many pictures. But on the other hand I picked up THREE replacement bike tubes to keep my bike going, so I suspect I'll have more wandering about pics to show for that reason.
My friend who tipped me off to Gimp asked where I'd been to so far, I told him about some of my favorite places to rum. I actually like the area of southern indiana and illinois and missouri, I love the extreme flatness and openness of that country side. It's really cool to ride a bike out in perfectly flat country. The southeastern US like florida and the carolinas is not really as interesting, it's flat but not so open and you can't see so far as to get that feeling of vastness that I love.
I also really like mountainous country even if it can be a real bitch haulling a heavy load up and down mountains with an accountant-selected engine. I like tenessee and pennsylvania and virginia for that reason. western maryland and eastern ohio are also beautiful mountainous areas.
But when I was headed up to maine to deliver a load of groceries I stopped at the New Hampshire welcome center on 95 and they had a lot of crafts on display, pottery, iron and glass. It reminded me of a lot of what I love about new england, the incredible arts culture that's here. I'm glad to be from here. It's just the worst place in the country to drive a big rig in, but I'm just going to have to deal with that fact after I get my year of experience and can get local work, and be able to be home and get going on the life that I never appreciated that I had the opportunity to llive until I started driving way out across the country and could not do so.
I guess that's it for now.
Monday night I got back home after being on the road 26 or 27 days, something like that. Yuck. By rights I could take 4 days off, and at first I wasn't going to since if i got back on the truck on saturday there might not be any loads for me to haul, but right now I'm absorbed in the gloriousness of being at home so I'll take the four days.
Last night I was talking to a friend on the phone and he tipped me off to the GIMP freeware image editing program. So tonight when I dropped by the rents' house to see if I might get a free dinner out of them and they weren't home I went down to the Haymarket Cafe in Northampton Mass and discovered that they had usable wifi, so I downloaded Gimp. Don't know if I have all that I need; i didn't get the manuals or tutorials but I'll grab them next time i've got wifi. so hopfully soon my blogs will have pictures again.
Being at home now I guess I could post some pics, but I'm feelilng lazy. I'm at the point in trucking that I've seen a lot of the same places over and over again and I'm not taking so many pictures. But on the other hand I picked up THREE replacement bike tubes to keep my bike going, so I suspect I'll have more wandering about pics to show for that reason.
My friend who tipped me off to Gimp asked where I'd been to so far, I told him about some of my favorite places to rum. I actually like the area of southern indiana and illinois and missouri, I love the extreme flatness and openness of that country side. It's really cool to ride a bike out in perfectly flat country. The southeastern US like florida and the carolinas is not really as interesting, it's flat but not so open and you can't see so far as to get that feeling of vastness that I love.
I also really like mountainous country even if it can be a real bitch haulling a heavy load up and down mountains with an accountant-selected engine. I like tenessee and pennsylvania and virginia for that reason. western maryland and eastern ohio are also beautiful mountainous areas.
But when I was headed up to maine to deliver a load of groceries I stopped at the New Hampshire welcome center on 95 and they had a lot of crafts on display, pottery, iron and glass. It reminded me of a lot of what I love about new england, the incredible arts culture that's here. I'm glad to be from here. It's just the worst place in the country to drive a big rig in, but I'm just going to have to deal with that fact after I get my year of experience and can get local work, and be able to be home and get going on the life that I never appreciated that I had the opportunity to llive until I started driving way out across the country and could not do so.
I guess that's it for now.
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lyris:
welcome back! i hope you're keeping really good track of all of your experiences on the road!
salome:
Welcome back home. 