Arrived in toronto and dropped the tr in the yard and headed for the truckstop for a 36 hr rest.Went and had awell earned shower the we went to the local restaurant for a meal but decided that we didnt fancy what was on offer so went back to truck and cooked up a chunky of sophies choice.
Following day picked up a tr for calgary only to be told to change over tr in longlac and return to toronto a 1600 mile round trip.picked up a tr for winnipeg and set off the next day.the tri pac on the truck started to play up and lost the heating overnight and woke up cold about 2am,it was -25f, could'nt find sophie buried in the duvet so i drove to customers to warm truck up then had to wait a couple of hours for the customer to open so i could get unloaded and go to the garage to repair tripac. Being it was 27 dec everything was closed so we went and stayed in the hotel overnite as it was -25f. Attached to the hotel was a retaurant so we had meal, thanks mum. In the morning went to the yard and met a canadian driver who had the sister truck to mine and told me how to fix the tripac, brilliant all systems go. bobtailed (just the truck no tr) up to saskatoon and picked up a tr for calgary.
Dropped the tr in calgary and picked onother up for vancouver, this was a lovely light load of paper cups and lids so we were able to have an easy drive over the rockies. sadly i have no pictures as sophie seems to have them all on her camera. The roads were good and the scenery outstanding and we had a lovely drive to vancouver. dropped tr in yard and went round to truck stop and spent the new year asleep, how boring are we.
New years day bobtail to kelowna yard nd picked an mt tr and took to calgary for repair.
In the morning loaded a tr for 2 drops in kamloops which is half way to vancouver,to supermarkets set in the mountains, so it was another trip into the rockies.
Having unloaded these we reloaded flour back to calgary.Sophie spotted the first of 4 bold eagles
flying across the mountains, brill.
Sadly the day came to take sophie to the airport for her flight home, this was a sad day and took a few days to get over but we had a wonderful xmas and new year even though we slept thru it
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