hi guys.not posted for awhile.
went down to wisconsin last week.after picking up my load,i set off for kitchener,ontario.i got to the customer the night before,i thought i might try my luck to get tipped early,but the place was closed.so time for bed.i got tipped pretty quick,and then i was to drop my empty in maple leaf in kitchener and pick up a load for saskatoon.i got to maple leaf around 10am,went into shipping and was told my load would not be ready until midnight.what a bummer.i asked my dispatcher if there was anything else i could do.no was the reply.so as i was running close to my hours,i asked to do a reset.
now,it was my birthday and i hadnt seen a live world cup game since it started,all i needed to do was find a place that had it on.then i remembered,me and jan met a couple in mexico in 2006 and i have kept intouch and i knew they lived up this way.put their address in the sat nav.cool,20 minutes away.off i go,i was coming up to the dealership were tom works,i called in,and was told it was his day off.so went round to the house.no answer.to cut a long story short.he was on the golf course and would be home in 10 minutes.i put the truck on his drive were it would be nice and safe.we shook hands and hugged,4 years is a long time.his wife julie was in bed due to working a night shift,poor girl had only been in bed a few hours and some bloody truck driver was waking her up with the noise of a truck.
me and tom went round to a bar to watch the england team(play crap,i might add).after the game we went for some food,then back to their house.we sat outside for a couple of hours,then off to bed,as tom needed to be in work.it turned out to be a very good birthday,afterall,only thing missing was jan.
my reset was due to finish at 9pm on saturday.pre plan had come through,but i just thought i would check if it was good tp pick being late in the evening,to be told,no,go in the morning.so,with that news and tom home from work,off to the golf course.had a great game of golf,even though i havent hit a ball in two years,and i played pretty good on all accounts.
back to the house for a bbq and another catch up chat.
i said my goodbyes in the morning and tom getting his daughter up,even though she had only been in bed for three hours(she was out partying).picked up my dairy load,and set off for calgary.
so thats were im upto at the minute,sat in smooth river falls,getting ready to hit the road.
a really enjoyable weekend was had