this one's for darrel

Hey DARREL, while in CA, I noted that I visited with my wife's Aunt VICKIE.. Well, as it goes, in here early years, she was a DANCER. She parted with this HULA doll to me. Being that your heritage is related, this FOTOS 4 U!!

LOST 151 LB IN 10 MONTHS

NO NOT ME...I LOST 60 LBS IN 15 DAYS THOUGH..THE TRUTH!!!





I met a gentelman at Fontana today blending vegetables, making juices. As the story goes, he had a number of health problems, besides his weight being well above 400 pounds. He started his diet about 10 months ago, loosing 151 pounds to date. He gave me the names of a couple books related to the diet, and said that he is writting a book as well. Apparently to publish, he has to loose at least 200 pounds. He's well on his way. This is david.

GREETINGS FROM FONTANA, CA

I made it to an early delivery to my drop in San Bernardino. They refused the early delivery, so I relayed it to our OC at FONTANA. I got another load out of ONTARIO, CA to deliver to CHANDLER, AZ tomorrow.

Enroute to deliver here in CA, I managed to be sick (loose as a goose) for two days, but also on the bright side, got time to take SANDY's aunt Vickie out to dinner last night.

Also while on the road, my cell phone kept loosing it's charge. Here at FONTANA, I got over to VERIZON and got a new phone. NOW, back to a learning curve..

Took some fotos over the road of the mountain scenery.
DARREL...say high to your your wife and brothers..

RAY.. KTBC&PH

SITTING AT HOUSTON, TX

Another day, another 452 miles. got up this morning and rolled at 4 AM. Picked up my SMUCKER'S at LACOMBE, LA, and headed for a stop at HOUSTON. enroute I had to scale the load, fuel up, and take a shower, clean the buckies, etc...

Tomorrow, I hope to do another 500+/- miles to somewheres between SAN ANTONIO and ELPASO. Maybe even an idelaire spot soon in NM or CA. Time and weather will tell.

GO WEST OLD MAN

Well since my last entry, things have been moving. I did get a load going to CANTON, MS which I delivered this morning. While making the delivery, the consignee pointed out that only half the load was his. SCHNEIDER failed to tell me it was a two stopper. It had an additional 150 miles to be done this day to WAYNESBORO, MS. Not bad-- an 850 miler becomes a 1000 miler, with stop pay.

This situation did put me into a FIFO market though. My trip planner, MICHELLE, indicated I wouldn't get a load out till morning. Well they're deadheading me to LOUISIANA (150 miles), to pick up a load of SMUCKERS going to SAN BERNARDINO, CA. (1800 miles)..NOT BAD.

Called SANDY to tell her I probably won't be home for her birthday in 2 weeks. I had planned to be for that weekend. The fact is though, when they send me that far, it's usually that many miles to come home as well. Will try to take pictures as well.

HEY RAY...missing your BD also. KTBC&PH

ANOTHER MAJOR BREAKDOWN

Sitting in a hotel room near LIMA, OH. Parked at a TA yesterday morning to wait on a load I was to pick up at 4 AM today. Woke up at 3 AM, had my coffee, and went to start the truck to no avail. The mechanics at the truckstop tried as well. Now I'm waiting till tomorrow for it to be towed to FREIGHTLINER. We suspect the computer is the problem.

The load I would have had wad going to Louisiana, nearly 1000 miles. I hope I can get another out of here by tuesday.

I guess the LORD felt I needed the rest!

UPDATE PLUS

It's been a while since I last managed to upd8 this site. As it goes, one week -13degrees, the next 57 degrees plus. that is from the upper peninsula of Michigan to the lower stretches of Georgia..

In the interim, I did manage to get home to meet my new GRANDAUGHTER. SHE's GORGEOUS. I alos got over to see my GRANDSON.

Coming out on Tuesday from TAH, I got a gr8 load from CHICAGO to ST MARYs, GA. Where to from here, who knows.

Heres one for DARREL..HOW are your brothers doing???

For RAY..ktbc&ph..