BOILED PEANUTS ANYONE?
You can't go to Georgia and not eat boiled peanuts. They were my daddy's favorite snack. On our way to Henderson, we stopped at a road side market and got some hot, fresh,boiled peanuts, some peaches, and tomatoes. I called my mama on the phone and told her to guess what I was doing, of course she couldn't, told her I was riding in the Georgia hills eating boiled peanuts. She just had to laugh. :) It's hard to find places like that, that you can park a big truck. There was another place we stopped at too, just north of Albany, Stripling's General Store, it has a web site...www.striplings.com they have some great gift baskets. We had one sent to our daughter, Kellly for her birthday, which is tomorrow, Happy,Happy Birthday my Kelly girl, we love you!!!
Then we stopped at a truckstop in Dunn, NC for breakfast, where a friend of Ricky's lives, and had him come visit with us for a quick bite. After a nice visit, off we went to deliver our load, at a Rose's distribution center, didn't know there were any of those stores still open, and we were off again. Off to Charlotte, NC to pick up a load to Oklahoma City. After we loaded, Ricky's hours were up and we had to stay there for 10 hours to pick up more time to run on. We decided to walk to a Chinese restaurant about a mile away and have supper, it was alright, not really worth the walk for the food, but we had fun taking the walk together. Sleeping in the lot of the business had it's plus..no other trucks..so it was a good quiet night. We got orders to bring this load into West Memphis instead of going on to OK, driving up through the north part of NC was beautiful, we drove close to Sylva,NC, and that's where Ricky's brother lives. He gave Pete a call and said hello, told him we'd stop for a visit another time, had to get on our way this time. We were hoping to come on home from there, but it seems we will have a bit of a run around first. We got a relay in TN to take to Pocahontas,IL and now we will be leaving in the morning taking a delivery from here to Ottawa,KS . Keeping our fingers crossed that then we'll be on our way home for a couple of days.
I guess I'll shut 'er down for the night, Ricky said we'll be leaving about 2 in the morning and it's almos 7:30 now....gezzzzz.....sometimes the nights aren't long enough!!!!! till next time....live your dream....time goes by quickly!!!!
You can't go to Georgia and not eat boiled peanuts. They were my daddy's favorite snack. On our way to Henderson, we stopped at a road side market and got some hot, fresh,boiled peanuts, some peaches, and tomatoes. I called my mama on the phone and told her to guess what I was doing, of course she couldn't, told her I was riding in the Georgia hills eating boiled peanuts. She just had to laugh. :) It's hard to find places like that, that you can park a big truck. There was another place we stopped at too, just north of Albany, Stripling's General Store, it has a web site...www.striplings.com they have some great gift baskets. We had one sent to our daughter, Kellly for her birthday, which is tomorrow, Happy,Happy Birthday my Kelly girl, we love you!!!
Then we stopped at a truckstop in Dunn, NC for breakfast, where a friend of Ricky's lives, and had him come visit with us for a quick bite. After a nice visit, off we went to deliver our load, at a Rose's distribution center, didn't know there were any of those stores still open, and we were off again. Off to Charlotte, NC to pick up a load to Oklahoma City. After we loaded, Ricky's hours were up and we had to stay there for 10 hours to pick up more time to run on. We decided to walk to a Chinese restaurant about a mile away and have supper, it was alright, not really worth the walk for the food, but we had fun taking the walk together. Sleeping in the lot of the business had it's plus..no other trucks..so it was a good quiet night. We got orders to bring this load into West Memphis instead of going on to OK, driving up through the north part of NC was beautiful, we drove close to Sylva,NC, and that's where Ricky's brother lives. He gave Pete a call and said hello, told him we'd stop for a visit another time, had to get on our way this time. We were hoping to come on home from there, but it seems we will have a bit of a run around first. We got a relay in TN to take to Pocahontas,IL and now we will be leaving in the morning taking a delivery from here to Ottawa,KS . Keeping our fingers crossed that then we'll be on our way home for a couple of days.
I guess I'll shut 'er down for the night, Ricky said we'll be leaving about 2 in the morning and it's almos 7:30 now....gezzzzz.....sometimes the nights aren't long enough!!!!! till next time....live your dream....time goes by quickly!!!!
posted by RickLynn | 4:35 PM
2 Comments:
well havent been able to see response after i sent message to ya both, just wanted to check in and see how thigs were going on the road,we will see if i have this figured out now or not talk soon, if you ever can get to read my messages. sincerly citymac
citymac, your comments are coming thru just fine. Not sure if your going back to see the added comments. I'll send you an email soon so you know I'm seeing them.
We're having a great time seeing the country and earning a living at the same time. Almost like being paid tourists except for the high priority loads that put us in a rush. I'm even getting a bit more comfortable delivering into the big cities.
Rick
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