BYE BYE TEXAS
We are on our way out, finally. We got a dispatch about 10:00 Tuesday nite to pick up a load in Austin, TX at 1:00pm on Wednesday, and guess where it had to go.... Laredo, TX. for 6:00pm the same night. We had plenty of sleep, that's for sure. We took a different highway down from San Angelo and got some different scenery. Saw a lot of goats and pecan orchards and crete myrtles, pretty pink, red, and purple ones... didn't expect all the pecan trees. Thought of pecans being from more south like in Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. I had picked a many of them up out from under the trees in my grandmothers yard as a kid, in Mississippi. Stopped at a picnic area and read a historical marker. There were a lot of them scattered all along the roads, but no time to read them all. The one we read was about the indians using the hills around there to send smoke signals, and how the pioneer women tried to stay safe from the indians by putting out their fires and being quiet. Well, we got caught up in rain, traffic, and an accident after we picked up the new trailer, between Austin and San Antonio. So we didn't get there till 8:30pm. The load didn't have to be delivered to the broker till 9:00 Thursday morning. Ricky had enough time to go ahead and get on the board, so we got assigned a new load, so we didn't have to stay and deliver there in Laredo. Got a relay load to West Memphis at the CFI yard, to be delivered Monday by someone. So after a really long day, I took off for the showers to take a long, hot, relaxing one. Ricky started to hand me a key to the truck, I laughed and told him I knew he'd be through before me and he'd be back to the truck before me. :) :) and I was right. :) :) There he was on the computer already.
The load doesn't have to be in Memphis till Saturday morning at 6:00. So we left this morning at 9:00 and are in a small town not far from the Louisianna line. Gonna go on in to Arkansas, with a stop a Nick's BarBQue, on the other side of Little Rock, for lunch, and on into West Memphis. We are running low on hours, so we will be at the CFI yard for the night for sure tomorrow. I think it will be laundry time again. Since I won't have to be rushed, maybe another loooong shower : )
I'm off to bed, catch you up later.
Dreamin our Dream... Belinda and Ricky
We are on our way out, finally. We got a dispatch about 10:00 Tuesday nite to pick up a load in Austin, TX at 1:00pm on Wednesday, and guess where it had to go.... Laredo, TX. for 6:00pm the same night. We had plenty of sleep, that's for sure. We took a different highway down from San Angelo and got some different scenery. Saw a lot of goats and pecan orchards and crete myrtles, pretty pink, red, and purple ones... didn't expect all the pecan trees. Thought of pecans being from more south like in Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. I had picked a many of them up out from under the trees in my grandmothers yard as a kid, in Mississippi. Stopped at a picnic area and read a historical marker. There were a lot of them scattered all along the roads, but no time to read them all. The one we read was about the indians using the hills around there to send smoke signals, and how the pioneer women tried to stay safe from the indians by putting out their fires and being quiet. Well, we got caught up in rain, traffic, and an accident after we picked up the new trailer, between Austin and San Antonio. So we didn't get there till 8:30pm. The load didn't have to be delivered to the broker till 9:00 Thursday morning. Ricky had enough time to go ahead and get on the board, so we got assigned a new load, so we didn't have to stay and deliver there in Laredo. Got a relay load to West Memphis at the CFI yard, to be delivered Monday by someone. So after a really long day, I took off for the showers to take a long, hot, relaxing one. Ricky started to hand me a key to the truck, I laughed and told him I knew he'd be through before me and he'd be back to the truck before me. :) :) and I was right. :) :) There he was on the computer already.
The load doesn't have to be in Memphis till Saturday morning at 6:00. So we left this morning at 9:00 and are in a small town not far from the Louisianna line. Gonna go on in to Arkansas, with a stop a Nick's BarBQue, on the other side of Little Rock, for lunch, and on into West Memphis. We are running low on hours, so we will be at the CFI yard for the night for sure tomorrow. I think it will be laundry time again. Since I won't have to be rushed, maybe another loooong shower : )
I'm off to bed, catch you up later.
Dreamin our Dream... Belinda and Ricky
posted by RickLynn | 6:32 PM
1 Comments:
Texas State Tree is the Pecan Tree.
Texas State Nut is the Pecan.
Most definietly the Pecan tree is a southern thang. Texas was and is part of the South.
Commanche Indians were a fierce and dangerous reality on the Texas frontier. My ancestors who settled in West Texas north of San Angelo have left accounts of dealings with Commanche Indians. None were good experiences.
Enjoy reading your blog posts. Keep up the good work.
Tron from cfidrivers.com
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