Wednesday February 2, 2011

 

 

Today’s Trip

Wytheville, Virginia, to Denmark, Tennessee

Wednesday, February 2

 

 

My bunk

I thought you might like to see my area of the truck.  The step on the right is for Cerwin to get to the top bunk.

 

 

There are several little storage bins. This one is where I store my sweaters.

 

 

My office on the dash of the truck: power converter (to run my computer), pen, cell phone, coffee cup. We had the BEST coffee this morning. Cerwin chose the extra strong. The flavor and strength was perfect. I savored each swallow.

 

 

We left Wytheville shortly after 6:00 a.m.

 

 

A large cross along the highway.

 

A picture from home

Our daughter Diane sent this picture of our front yard from her cell phone. This is why we left a day early. We had lots of ice, but she said the power did not go off.

 

 

Back to our road trip.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We stopped at the Knoxville, Tennessee, Travel Center about 10:15 for fuel and brunch.

 

 

This truck was parked to our left – just in front of the fuel island. He was hauling two antiques – an old baler and tractor.

 

 

The rig in which we are traveling.

 

 

TFC’s chapel at the Knoxville Travel Center.

 

 

We had a good visit with Volunteer Chaplain Prentiss who was on duty today.

 

 

After enjoying Subway breakfast sandwiches, we were on our way again.

 

 

Approaching Kingston

 

 

Driving through a quick snow flurry.

 

 

 

 

We also had a lot of sunny skies.

 

 

Entering Nashville

 

 

We had good traveling weather today.

 

 

We saw our shadow on Groundhog Day – even though the groundhogs in Pennsylvania did not.

 

 

A wide load going by us.

 

 

He stirred up some dust when passing other rigs, because he had to get to the edge of the road.

 

 

We saw a large variety of loads.

 

 

A neat sign on the back of a trailer.

 

 

When we pulled into a parking spot at our final destination – east of Memphis – this man asked if he could wash our windows for $2.00. The windows were very dirty, so we left him do it.

 

We are relaxing in the restaurant – after a refreshing truck stop shower and supper. I had a chicken salad sandwich and sweet tea, and Cerwin had lasagna and coffee.

Now it’s time for bed in preparation for another day of travel tomorrow.