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Has been a GREAT day today. We left the yard after having the trailer worked on, with just a couple of hours left on our clock, but it was raining and the yard was kinda crummy, so we were hoping to find a good spot to sleep and do our driving in the daylight. Got up to Benson, AZ to the Gas City truckstop.. a really nice parking spot!! : ) That one goes in the book... : ) Had a good nights sleep and left this morning with a little low clouds in the mountains... was a really pretty drive on I-10. Went through the Mascalaro Apache reservation and stopped at a couple of places for a quick bit of shopping. It's hard to find a place in the truck to put my stuff till we get home... I'm having to move all kinds of stuff to be able to go to bed.. heeeeheee. Then Ricky took me to Roswell, NM... they have a bypass for the big trucks, so we couldn't go see downtown... just the truckstop. Did a little shopping there though and ate supper.Will have to make it a high light day and walk downtown from the truckstop or rent a car and really see some other places around there that we couldn't in the the big truck. Well We are in Amarillo, TX now at a Love's for the night...was driving in the dark, looked all around for them aliens... didn't get abducted or nothing, saw some flashing red lights... I think someone was talking to outter space in morse code, telling them if I saw one of them I would take it home to Jason, : ) gonna go for now and get some sleep and we are going on in to Joplin tomorrow.. gotta get the oil changed in the truck and then get on our way Sunday towards PA Catch you up later...

Livin the Dream...Belinda and Ricky

MEXICO JUST A STONES THROW
Here we are...sitting in a drop yard in Nogales, AZ. Made it safe and sound. Left Sunday afternoon and ran on over to Paris, IL and found our pickup spot, and got staged to get our load Monday morning. Picked up some farm equipment for Mexico. Didn't get out of there till 3:30pm, so was night driving on up to Joplin for the night. Got there and dropped the trailer to have some work done while we got a nap. Had a quick breakfast Tuesday morning at the yard and took off for AZ. Did some straight driving, not many stops, to make some miles. Drove to Santa Rosa, NM and stopped at a TA for the night. Wasn't a very good TA, but there was plenty of parking, to our surprise for that time of the night. Good thing for us... : ) Grabbed some supper and a shower and headed off to bed, was a long day, but wanted to do all our driving in New Mexico in the daylight. We had only been in a small piece in the north and Ricky had been in a small piece across the bottom without me. This time we were going down the middle. Ricky had fought the wind all afternoon on Tuesday, so we were hoping for less of it on Wednesday. Had just a little, so was better. We had a good view of New Mexico since it is so open.. : )
There were mountains all scattered, just sticking up out of the desert. Temps were cool but not too bad. Drove all the way to Tucson for the night, just 60 miles from Nogales. Stayed at the TTT truck stop, happened to find a spot... and it was close to being no spots open, it was packed. The temps were in the high 50s and low 60s, so we didn't have to run the truck. The lot was paved and that was good since it started raining a little this morning. Got up at 7:00 this morning, which was 6:00 here... Mountain Time. Had a nice drive on down to Nogales and our delivery was a broker at the border... was looking right over into Mexico where we dropped the trailer. The warehouse Foreman spoke very little English.. knew I should have finished that Spanish class in high school. : )
So we've been sittin since 10:00am at this drop yard.. was number 5 on the board when we first got here.. were #3 when Ricky checked a few minutes ago.... and it's now1:00pm... hopefully we'll get another good long run towards Florida or North Carolina, since we are so close to I-10. Catch you up when I know somethin...
O.K.... so I'm making an addition... we are on our way to Mechanicsburg, PA... picked up a load from here in the yard that was here all this time... dahhhhhh.. we could have been long gone.. geezzzz these planners.. : ( but it is great miles.. : ) have to be there Tuesday morning. Hope the weather holds out on the good side.

Livin the Dream..Belinda and Ricky

LATE HAPPY THANKSGIVING
Wow! I've really been bad this time... almost a month : ( Well, between bad Internet signals and not in the mood itiss, it's just too long.. I know. Oh, and Ricky gave birth to triplets... yea.. had three kidney stones.. yea.. ouch... Let's see we left Laredo and went to Meridian, MS, then Charlotte, NC, Granite City, NC, back to Laredo, then Byhalia, MS, Southhaven, MS, to Nichols, NY, Topton, PA, to Carrollton, OH, to Grove City, OH, and then to Indianapolis, IN where we took off for 4 days to spend with our girls and Brian for Thanksgiving. Jay, Jenn, and the grandkids went down to my moma's for thanksgiving in Mississippi, she was all excited when I talked to her on the phone.. just a cookin away. This was the first days off for Ricky since September. The kids fixed us a wonderful meal and took us out for several too! We had a great visit! Now we are back in our home away from home.. THE BIG RED TRUCK.. waiting for what we hope will be a good run. It's raining and cold and about 5:00pm and dark already... hope we don't pick up a load till morning though... I hate night riding. : ( I guess ya'll know that already...
When we were in New York we got our first snow since last March... it was all on the trees and countryside, not the road, thank goodness, but it was beautiful to look at going down to Pennsylvania. Really got us in the holiday mood. Can't wait to go home and decorate for Christmas, and go shopping for Cody and Emily.. along with the grown kids. : )
All caught up again... gonna go for now... .Ahhhhaa. just got a dispatch for Paris, IL to Nogales, AZ..Yessssss

Living our Dream... Belinda and Ricky