Well we puled into the ranch about 2 pm Gracie was so glad to be home. I did not go w/Tommie to unload I am doing laundry and working on the taxes. David will come home Sat to take me to OK with him. Then I can bring my p/u back home since he bought a car last week.

With that we got our next load that took us up to IL. We unloaded that night and headed to Litchfield to reload Thur for a run to Blue Springs MO! I get to go home. It has been 31 days. It is April 2 and before going to work I make that all improtant phone call to Nikki. It is her 7 birthday today. Happy birthday Nikki grandma loves you.

While we were there Humpty made it out of the truck to check the fuel price at the Pilot we were camped at.......

Week of March 20 to April 3

I need to get home. We load in Houston early Monday morning and head to LA near Shreveport. We sit Wed. They get us a load that loads Thur in Tylertown MS going to Harkin IL. Its close to home we take it! While we are waiting we take a few shots of the down time in LA.

We finished out the week by going to Baytown on Friday. I got my TWIC card picked up and we had a load scheduled to p/u Monday morning. So we went over to our "home away from home" and camped for the weekend. Of course you can always find a handful of Mercer drivers there when you arrive.... We had a cookout Sat. night and we went out to eat on Sunday.

Week of March 22-March 28

We left Keensaw GA Monday morning and headed to Norcross to p/u a load headed up to Chatanooga. Then from there we went to Huntsville AL to p/u a load going near Kileen TX. While in Huntsville we had the time to tour the space center where kids go to space camp.

Somehow between Friday night and Sunday noon when we puled out of the yard we managed to get all 10 loads of laundry done...yea I hadn't done laundry for 3 weeks....we kept thinking we would get to the yard or home......there are 3 washers and dryers that Mercer provides for us to do our laundry for free. This saved my roughtly $40 in laundry fees at the truck stops. We got to our destination Sunday evening and it was a nice quiet facility at Keensaw GA. I fixed supper and we ate outside and Gracie enjoyed the freedom.

While we were waiting for a free van to be avaliable for us all to go out to eat one of the drivers took some time to do a little maintenace. We still are not sure how many Mercer drivers it takes to change a light but the job got done. Then next shot is of us waiting outside Logans steakhouse waiting for a table for 12.

Tommie and Jim and then Lynn and Me.....

This is a pic of Tommie and I in front of an old International pick up. His Dad had one about the same age when Tommie was a small boy........

OK I am going to try to finish up the week of March 16-21. Sat we went to the truck show. We stayed at the Mercer lot and Mercer provides shuttle transportation for us back and forth. Tommie and Jim came back and walked the dogs and Lynn and I stayed and looked at trucks......its a girl thing lol