Wednesday 25 August 2010

Still trucking on

Again appologies for the long delayed update,the truck stops (flying j) i use for tinternet is updating its service so its more difficult to find sites, any how this one is free at a TS called DADs in Idahi Falls,so here we go.
Loaded out of Toronto For calgary a trip across the trans canadian 1,1days driving 13 hrs to get across ontario.I drove only during the day because of all the warnings about moose wandering on the road at night,they are like cart horses and weigh about a ton,if you hit one, at best you come out second.Again the countryside was beautiful.2000 miles later i found myself in calgary.
From here i loaded for Los Angeles,down thru Great falls, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas to LA.Arriving sat night.Because the load was not tipping untill mon i spent the day in the TStop with me ole mate martin and a canadian driver and caught up with old times, which reminds me i had some bad new a couple of weeks ago.My mate died, came to canada to retire, a good o'l boy,heart attack, well he was over 25 stone, driven in reverse further than some forward,forgotten more than most know, so i went to his funeral as he was a loner.Trouble is i could'nt find the church, then got held up in roadworks and when finally arrived everybody had gone, there were just the two workmen with shovels standing there.So i thought id better go and see.I stood by them and said a few kind and sympathetic words and told a few old stories of what he was like and the fun we had, choked me up a bit so i decided to leave. As i was about to get in the car one workman said to the other,that was the most moving and sentimental speach ive heard in 20 years of putting in septic tanks.
See you later

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