Ft Worth,TX

We finally made it to Fort Worth and will get to see the kids this afternoon! I am so excited!

After we made our pickup in Rosenhayn,NJ we headed down to the first Service Plaza we could find and decided to call it a night there. It was still really early, around 1600 or so, but we had a LOT of time on this load. We had two stops and the first one wasn't until Monday (today) moring at 0800 here in Ft Worth. With just under 1500 miles to go to the first stop, we knew we would make it in Sunday afternoon. That is why we decided to stop Friday afternoon. Evening rush hour traffic around Baltimore and Washington DC is horrible so we decided just to wait it out and leave early Saturday morning.

It was an uneventful trip down. We had beautiful weather. I saw so many motorcycles coming down I-81 in Virginia. I was so jealous. It sure would have been nice to be out there for a weekend road trip with all the other people starting their summer vacations! But since we were heading home, I decided that was much better. :)

We knew that we would be in Sunday afternoon so I had sent a message in to the weekend dispatch to find out if we could drop this load Sunday afternoon at the drop lot and then have a solo finish up with the deliveries. The first one was a short local one, but the second delivery was out in Merkel,TX about 170 miles away. So there was still a little revenue left on it. Rollie worked all day for us and finally found someone that could take the load. Unfortuately, when he found someone, that is when he realized that we had a hazmat load and the driver didn't have his hazmat endorsement. Bummer. So we dropped the load at the drop lot, came and got a hotel, then J left this morning and went to go make the deliveries for us.

J is so awesome for making these deliveries today! It is really nice to be sitting here in the hotel chilling, playing on the computer, doing laundry and doing a whole lot of nothing. I haven't done that in a while. Well, for a few days when we were in Atlanta, but I was sore from working on the boat and J's back was out, so that really doesn't count!

As I type this, J is down in Merkel making the last delivery. The appointment wasn't until 1300, but he sent me a message at 1120 that he was there and docked. So that means that he will be back a couple hours sooner than we had planned. Very awesome. Tonight we plan on seeing the kids and doing something with them. Graduation is tomorrow evening, so we should be spending the day with them then also. After that, we will head back out on Wednesday morning.

I am so proud of the kids, and I just can't believe that when J and I got married that they were only 7 and 9 years old. When we started dating again, they were only 5 and 7. It is hard to believe those little kids, which were complete brats at time and couldn't stand to be near each other or even be in the same room at times, are now both graduated from High School and the best of friends. Justin has been in the Navy for a year now and Jessica is going to go to a community college for the first two years and then she wants to get into Baylor's Medical School. I told her she needs to become a plastic surgeon. That way I can always look good! LOL But she wants to work with children. Not an MD but she wants to be an oncologist, working with children with cancer. This girl has a heart of gold. I am so incredibly proud of both of them!

So we are going to be spending time with family the next few days and enjoying the kids company. After that we are hitting the road again to save up some money for the cruise with Jessica in July and saving up so we can head back to work on the boat again. This is going to be a great summer!