It took almost all my driving hours to get to the delivery today, but I got there. I didn't take into account two factors when I looked at the google map distance and time calculation. The first thing I neglected was the fact that they use the legal speed limit for cars to calculate time, which most of the way is either faster than my truck can go or faster than I am allowed to go. The other thing I forgot was the traffic through the Dallas area, it is simply horrible. So what I figured as a ten hour drive turned into a ten and three quarter hour drive. Since I can only drive eleven hours in one shot it was a good thing that the hotel I am now at was just a few minutes away.
The hotel is also just across the street from Ripley's Believe It or Not Odditorium and Louis Tussuad's House of Wax. I am tempted to go, but will likely leave tomorrow before it opens, hopefully that is.
This hotel was advertised as having truck parking, but they are doing some renovations or new construction and that parking is gone. So I am now taking up a good portion of the parking spaces, fortunately not many people were here when I had to maneuver myself into the spot, which also got me turned around to be able leave in the morning.
The weather down here is fantastic compared what is in the Toledo area right now, well most of Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee for that matter. It was in the sixties this afternoon, not only did I have the windows down a bit in the truck, I had the air on as well to keep the heat down from the sun beating into the cab. The truck really stands out down here, there just aren't that many vehicles floating around that are salt encrusted. Considering the layers of salt on the truck, that might be an understatement.
I got some pictures while driving through Kentucky yesterday. It simply boggled the mind at how much damage that ice storm did down there. Entire stands of trees have been topped and toppled from the ice splitting them in half or just dragging them over. Almost the entire stretch of both both I-71 and I-65 had trees down along the road side that have been trimmed just enough for traffic to get past them. Seeing this it is easy to see how so many power lines got taken down. I will get them put up soon.
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