SUCCESS!

We did it! After weeks, months of trying, we finally accomplished what we have failed miserably at......we took a nap, and boy did it feel good. You know the kinda nap I'm talking about. The after Thanksgiving dinner, belly full, pants undone, lying on the couch kinda nap, but without the full belly, the pants being undone, and laying on the couch, but you get the idea. We were ready to lay down the minute we got unloaded and got the trailer parked and unhooked. We bob tailed over to the truck parking at the Fred Meyer DC, the temperature was in the high 50's/low 60's, the sky was overcast, a slight breeze was blowing, and we opened all the windows and were both asleep within seconds.

While eating lunch we received a phone call from dispatch saying to hook back up to the trailer we dropped and head to the Flying J in Pasco, WA. We were to meet up with another driver who was having some mechanical problems and swap trailers. We would be taking a loaded trailer of boxed meat, and I use the term "meat' loosely, because along with the ground beef, we are also carrying beef tongue, oxtail, honeycomb tripe, and heart.

With not hooking up to the trailer until 4pm, and having used up all of our 14 hour clock, we had to sit and put in our mandatory break. But, with this load having to be delivered by noon today, we would be doing some night driving and using all of our 11 hours of driving per night/day for the two days it will take us to get to Vernon, CA and King Meats.

Presently, we are battling the sun in our eyes, after having been on the road since 12:30am this morning. We are hoping for the best with LA traffic and if we are lucky, will have just one hour after we drop to get somewhere to park for yet another mandatory break. It's always a good thing when you use up all of your 70 hours of driving time and we will have just 8 hours left to use until Thursday. We foresee a 34 hour reset in our future, the only guessing game is where it will be. I think I'll take a nap and sleep on it later today.