Right now, we are sitting in San Diego, CA hoping to get a load to the Northeast. Dispatch said it might be Thursday or Friday before we can get one. My trainer feels that it is worth the wait, and I am happy to have a day or 2 to recoup. San Diego is a really nice city. Where we are is actually called National City, but it's close enough to San Diego. We are only about 1/2 mile away from Tijuana Mexico, and can clearly see it from our vantage point. I have tried to take some pictures. Unfortunately, somebody stole my camera when I was at Steven's. So I am having to use my cell phone.
States I have been in:
Texas
New Mexico
Arizona
California
Nevada
Utah
Wyoming
Our routing and loads:
I met my trainer in El Paso, TX. He had picked up a load of chicken going to Chandler, AZ (Phoenix). Once we offloaded in Chandler, we dead headed (drove with an empty trailer) to Colton, CA (Los Angeles) to pick up produce bound for Cheyenne, WY. There was no way we could've made an on time delivery on this one, so they repowered us in SLC with a team that had the hours available to make the delivery time. In return, we pulled their load to Cheyenne so that they could continue on with it. We swapped trailers with them in Cheyenne and stayed there for a day. We then received instructions to repower another drivers load going to Oakland, CA. With the swap complete, we headed towards CA. Upon getting closer to SLC, we were again instructed to give the load to somebody else and stay in Ogden, UT for the night. The next day, we went to Hersheys to pick up a load of candy bound for San Diego. We delivered that yesterday, and here we sit.
Things I have seen:
A tornado in Ogden, UT; Snow...in July...in Wyoming; Mexico; The Pacific Ocean; Naval Destroyers and Submarines; The Hollywood sign; the Mojave Desert; The San Bernardino, Laguna, Spring, Phoenix, Wasatch, and Rocky Mountains. I have been from 20ft below sea level in CA to just over 9,400ft in WY. daytime temperature differences have ranged from 110° in AZ to 49° in the Wasatch mountains in UT. I have driven 1,486 miles this past week.
Here are some pictures:
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| This is the tornado in Ogden. What a crazy cool thing it was to watch. It was like it had a mind of its own |
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| San Diego. Looking Southeast into Mexico |
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| Salt Lake City sunset |
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| Near Bryan Head, UT |
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| Cheyenne, WY looking Southwest into Colorado. What an amazingly beautiful state. If you look closely, you can see the snow-capped mountains in the distance. |
I'll go ahead and wrap this up for this week. I will try to update this as I get the chance. There is no telling where this next week will take me, but I'll be ready nonetheless!! Until next time, keep it between the lines!
