A LOT OF RUNNING AROUND

We were ready to pick up the pace a bit, after all, over the past couple of days we have barely gone 500 miles. That all changed this morning when we made our delivery to the Fred Meyer DC in Clackamas, OR. As soon as we put in the empty call, we were instructed to drop our trailer and pick up a team load that needed to be in Phoenix, AX by noon on Sunday. We found the loaded trailer and took off to Rice Hill, OR to meet up with the team drivers who would be waiting for us.

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Along the way we were besieged by Oregon State Beaver fans who were in the mood to enjoy some football today. They were proudly displaying their flags and team colors as they made their way to the stadium in Corvallis, OR.

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Arriving in Rice Hill, we quickly traded trailers and were now the owners of a trailer loaded with boxed meat to be delivered in the Portland, OR area on Tuesday. But we were not to deliver that load, just take it to one of our drop yards in Troutdale, OR. So off we went, retracing our previous route, and thankful that we were going the opposite direction of the bumper to bumper traffic that was now headed towards that football game.

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Upon getting to the drop yard, we had to do some fancy driving around the numerous dropped trailers that were helter skelter all over the yard, to finally find an open slot to drop our trailer. We were then instructed to bob tail back to the Fred Meyer DC in Clackamas, OR and pick up an empty trailer. Back to retracing our route once again, we arrived at the DC we were at early this morning, and found one of our newer trailers parked next to the one we dropped this morning.

We are currently on a misty and lightly foggy covered Interstate 84, making our way East. Our plan is to stay at Biggs Junction, OR tonight and make the final leg of our journey to the Shipper in Kennewick by 10am in the morning. We are picking up 45,000 pounds of frozen french fries. Yes...... our good friend Mr. French Fry is back and he will be going to a familiar place, San Pedro Forklift in Long Beach, CA for a delivery on Wednesday morning.

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Craig will be making a solo delivery, as he is leaving me in Kennewick, where my best friend Cori and her husband, Mike, will be picking me up and then driving to Spokane, where Cori and I will then take our truck and drive up to our house in Usk for a girl's trip. We are looking forward to having a great time and maybe even doing a bit more painting. By the time our girl trip is over with, it will be time for me to pick up Craig at the Company yard in Spokane for his home time on December 8th. We are both looking forward to that!