What a crazy few days! After we made it through Wyoming, J made it to just east of Omaha,NE and he had clear roads. Then I took over and drove from there to our first destination in Chicago. From Des Moines,IA to Walcott,IA which is roughly 175 miles, I counted 112 cars off of the road from the ice and snow. It was horrible, yet again, but I made it through. Then after we left Chicago, J was driving. There was a huge storm up on the great lakes causing gale force winds (according to the National Weather Service) and we were blown ALL over the road. We stopped for the night in Youngstown,OH. J was worn out. Then I got up and drove us the last 400 miles to finish delivering. I contacted support shift and they contacted the consignee and told them when we would be in. She said that they would wait until we got there. I was worried about it because it is Christmas Eve and was afraid that they would be closing early. We got there at 1530 which is when I said we would get there and there was NO ONE there. ARGH!! So I call in again, and they tell me someone should be there at 1600 to unload us and if they don't show up by 1630 that we should just drop the trailer. About 10 minutes later we get a message telling us to go ahead and drop the trailer and leave so that is what we do.
From there we head to the Kearny drop lot to try to figure out what we are going to do. We had thought about renting a car but it was too late to do that. All the cars were already rented when we called places. So we decided to get a hotel. I used our handy dandy GPS "Maggie" to locate a hotel, and here we sit, at the Courtyard by Marriott Newark Liberty International Airport location. Not the place we imagined spending Christmas, it is better. We knew we would be on the road and figured we would be driving. However the way things worked out, we ran out of hours and had to do a restart so it worked out perfectly! We have a nice hotel, had dinner delivered and have a king size bed to sleep in tonight. So I would say if we can't be home with family, then this is a pretty good alternative.
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sorry to hear your stuck in NJ, too bad ya could'nt have been in the carlisle OC, sheri and i could have come by (we only live about 2.5 miles from the OC)and we could have gone out for a christmas eve dinner and had a chance to meet ya guys. anyway hope ya still have a great christmas.
We are in Pipestone, MN at the Bayliner shipper waiting for a load Wednesday morning. We'll make the best of it by making a snowman! Merry Christmas and continued safe driving out there on the roads.
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