Hello you.

So to bring you up to speed, I left OKC bound for The Rock, Ga. with another driver who was going to the same place. He followed me all the way to Mississippi when we happened upon another driver who was also going to The Rock. So the 3 of us "convoyed" to Winfield, Al. driving till 5:30 in the morning. I was tired and slept till about 10am and then we continued on.

Got to the Quad Graphics location, got unloaded and took the rest of the day off and slept. I got a backhaul out of Marblehill, Ga. which is about 50 miles north and east of Atlanta. I went there and picked up a load of 2000lb-plus bags of stuff they use to make marble countertops...I guess. 79,500lbs!

I started back and stopped at West Memphis, Ar. for the night, still tired from driving till 5:30 the other morning! I got up the next morning and started out and got a call from my dispatcher asking me if I could run a container load down to Dallas, bailing him out of a low-driver situation. So that day just got longer! I get back and drop my trailer, drive over to Hobby Lobby, pick up an empty container trailer and blast to Dallas. Spent the night in Dallas, hooked up to a loaded container trailer and came back to OKC. On my way back, my dispatcher calls and asks if I can, again, help him out by taking a load to Arvada, Co., a suburb of Denver, to Hobby Lobby. So I do some wiggling with my logbook and take off for Colorado!

This run, instead of going up thru the panhandle of Oklahoma, I was given the 'ok' to run up I-35 to Salina, Ks and across I-70 to Denver. I watched the birth of a huge thunderstorm as it passed in front of me and then drove thru 2 more storms that were coming out of the Rockies and across the plains. The north wind was horrible on I-70 and, at one point, I had to slow down to almost 45mph because it was so hard to drive. The temp kept falling and, after the 2nd storm, the rain changed to snow! It didn't last very long, but still.

Made it to Arvada at 5:30am (what's with that?) and went right to sleep. A worker woke me up, I backed up to the door and went right back to sleep. My backhaul is coming out of Fort Collins, Co. and is a load of beer from Anheuser-Busch. It picks up at 2am Saturday morning, so I'll drive till I get back home. It's been a LONG week and I am so ready to see my wife and boys!