Carolina in My Mind

Can you guess where I'm heading? I bet you can! Right now I'm sitting in a Flying J in Wytheville, VA (tried a TA up the road but it was tight and most spots required blind side backing...and you do NOT want to see me trying to blind side). Tomorrow...North Carolina! Town named Highlands. It's exciting to me. I spent a good portion of my life in North Carolina and sometimes I miss it (okay...I really just miss Wiener Works - found only in Fayetteville - and BOJANGLES!) Can't find anything like them up in Ohio. There are Popeye's but they just aren't the same as Bojangles. If you've never eaten at a Bojangles then you just don't know what you're missing. Maybe I'll be able to find one I can get to tomorrow. We'll just have to see. 

In other news...last week one of my chain hooks had fallen on my left index finger. And of course what happens when you have an injured finger or toe? You keep hitting and knocking it on everything which I am doing quite successfully. Jammed it today and of course it's all swollen again. Hurt's like hell...has been since it happened. Makes tarping and strapping interesting. Which today's load of course had to be tarped (with BOTH tarps this time). I am rather proud of the tarping I did on this load. I'm getting much better at it. Can't say I'm getting any faster...but the actual tarping itself is looking really good! Nothing has ended up flapping in the wind at all this time so that is a huge improvement.

Not really anything exciting to speak of today. I invested in a good headset for my phone. Not cheap by any means but definitely not the most expensive either. Next investment will probably been a truck antenna and window mount  for my Sirius radio. Won't be long before I'll need to get a new GPS too...the one I have now is trying to die on me. She just needs to last a little while longer. Truck GPS is NOT cheap. A good one will cost a minimum $299. But it's worth buying the truckers version as it gives info regular GPS systems don't have and is pretty good at keeping you on truck routes (although occasionally it'll still try to route you onto a road where they aren't allowed...hence my ticket in Lisbon, OH).

So that's it for today's update. Sleep well and stay safe on the roads my friends!