Having to reset my hours today so catching up with the blog. I done a quick trip to Lebanon, Indiana and back home then left on this trip to Los Angeles.

I unloaded and reloaded in LA for Toronto.

I am currently in York, Nebraska and hope to drop this trailer in Brampton Saturday afternoon.

Getting short of space to pile the snow, still got lots more to come according to the forecast.

I am back home and here is the map of my last trip. 12 days and 6200 miles with 2 days off during the trip to reset my hours.

Sorry it has been a while again. January has been a really busy month with just short of 13,000 miles. I have covered 43 of the lower 48 states in the USA with Louisiana, Mississippi, Rhode Island, Florida and Delaware the only ones I have not driven a truck in.

Things are still going really well for us in Canada, Sue still working in home care for the local health authority, Gary and Craig working in separate hog barns, Gary with a regular girlfriend (Amber), Craig getting married to Jacey in August this year and me, lol, almost 2 years in the same job and still very happy. While I was busy worrying about everyone else emigrating here it took me longer to settle than the others.

I am in the middle of a long trip right now and will post the map of it when I get home.

Andy and Donna took us to"Celebrations" http://www.celebrations.ca/celebrations/whatis.html
for our Christmas party.

We think it is a fantastic night of music and fun with good food and made even better with good company.

Merry Christmas and a happy new year!

So ends another year, and a good year for work. The last 12 months working for Andy on lease to Penners has just flown by and it has been a great year for me.

I covered a total of 145,112 miles with 263 nights away from home, 174 of them in USA and 89 in Canada.

The last couple of trips took me right up to 6.30pm Christmas eve which allowed me to take some time off at home till 2nd January.

Sues van was written off by the insurers so we bought this one, it's a 2005 Buick Rendezvous.

Sorry, but time is flying by and I seem to have fallen behind with this blog. I am weekended here at the TA Truckstop, Livingston, California. Donner Pass on I80 in California was closed Thursday night for a while and when it reopened snow chains were required. My philosophy is that if conditions are bad enough that snow chains are required then I have no business being out there in it, so I got myself comfy at the TA in Sparks, Nevada prepared to wait it out.

When the restrictions were lifted next day at noon I had already missed my delivery appointment, 10am, and was still 4 1/2 hrs away with my reload to Richmond BC to be loaded before 2 pm, no chance.

I got my delivery done by 5pm but I am now stuck here till Monday for a reload. I can think of worse places, it's a pleasant 18c and warm sunshine compared to the -10c and snow back home, sorry Sue.

The top pic is the trip before this one.