We are here in Malibu, I have a ton to write when I get the opportunity. My goal was a daily post but that went down the tubes quick.
I just wanted to say that it is great to actually not have the air condition on and it has been a long while since we took a drive in a sporty convertible…….cherry red mustang in fact. We had some time to enjoy the sunset and decide to drive up the coast a bit. It was great!
Time to get a few other things done and maybe I can work on my blog about the trip.
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We need to get on the road…….this waiting is stressing us out….gggrrr I’m so tired of doing errands and finding more crap that we need. We try to be organized, but it no where near organized as I would like.
Harold got home safe, sound and stressed out.
I went and got my hair colored and cut/styled. For those who aren’t aware, I am a natural strawberry blonde, when I spend time in the sun and pool it really brings out the blonde. The color that I love to put into my hair is the dark, dark burgundy red. It never lasts in a few weeks I’ll be back to my fire engine red. But I like that color….I just don’t like it when my blonde comes out. The red is so much more me….especially with my temper.
I tried to take a few self portraits of it but they sucked. No way near showing it off as they should. And of course, there is no way that I will be able to replica the style myself. But I like it. I lost a few inches do to bad ends and I then had him layer it, just to try something different. It adds more body to it.
I did finally get our accounts balanced. So that was nice, now some how I need to enter in the ton of receipts that have been created………icks…. It is enough to want to pull my hair out.
I need to get to bed, I have to start early to get the laundry done and get my nails done………going to do them in blues.
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I love this live journal………grin
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I’ve been meaning to update this daily, but I have been sucking at this. It has been hard to get things done during the day. For some reason, I get the burst of energy to attack things around here in the evening….weird.
I really, really need to balance our accounts…icks. But I have been doing my work online and I’ll probably be tied up with it tomorrow.
Well, yesterday I did go out to the bookstore just so I can have an actual table and chair to work on. That was helpful as hell. I also did get some time in the pool and sun.
I had to get up early today to head over for my last foot doctor appointment. He says I’m doing fine and that it will take a long time to full heal up….the same thing he told me before, I’m just impatient with it.
Afterwards I came home and grabbed our laundry. The cats threw up on a comforter and I couldn’t let it sit. So I spent part of the morning, for the 1st time since my college years at a laundry mate. Unfortunately, it didn’t have any air………icks, but the lady that was there was really nice. Now, Harold doesn’t care for me going to laundry mates, safety wise. But I like how much quicker the washing and drying happens. And there is something nice and peaceful there sometimes. You can get some mental me time that you don’t get very often anymore. When I was in college, I liked the time that it forced me to focus on my homework or get some reading done.
Then it was on to a few errands that needed to be done. Tomorrow I need to go turn in our PO Box keys. I have the mail being forwarded from there to our new address, which is going to be held for the next month……lol With the unconditioned laundry mate, it tired me out and I ended up taking a nap today….sad. I didn’t even feel like getting into the pool.
I ended up getting more work done online and within the last 2 hours I attacked putting the laundry away and did a general cleaning around here.
Unfortunately I can’t stay up and attack more cleaning. I have the carpet cleaners coming tomorrow morning……..joy, joy.
I have to comment that I think I have a strange cat. Alexis keeps jumping into the cat carriers that we have out for them to get use to and sleeping…..she is a nut.
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This will not be a post on the entire trip, I am still too tired and do not have enough time to do that. But the main issue has been the trailer itself and driving with it. It started 320 miles into the trip, I was in GA and in a huge construction area (about 100 miles of it) when I started to feel a bad “shimmy†so I pulled over and found I lost tread on the back right tire.
2 hours later after Budget sent a guy to fix it I was back on the road with getting north of ATL as my goal, but I was too tired, I had just loaded the truck that day and it was 100+ with high humidity, and sitting waiting 2 hours didn’t help, so I pulled over in a rest stop and slept for 90 mins. I honestly thought I was out for 5 hours, but it was only 90 mins.
So I got to deal with ATL at 10 am, and it was not bad at all, no issues which shocked and still shocks me, this was the one place I feared the most and it was not a issue at all, I saw 2 near wrecks, but nothing bad.
About 45 mins north of ATL I was driving up a hill, going 45 mph if that, this truck is total shit on hills, and all the sudden a shit load of smoke is pouring out of the right side trailer tires, it looked like a fire, so I pulled over and as soon as I got near the trailer I could feel the heat, it was seconds away from a fire and had I drove another 100 yards I’m sure it would have been a fire.
I look, and the emergency break switch on the trailer was tripped. Now this is there in case the trailer comes off the truck, there is a 4’ cord that is attached to the truck and it has 3’ in slack, so it is 100% impossible to trip unless it is pulled, and there is no way for it to be pulled unless the trailer comes off, which did not happen.
So I pried the lock in the off position and went on my way, very leery and stressing that this was going to be a problem for the rest of the 2800 miles. I stayed at another rest stop in MO and flagged down a mini van full of people who passed me leaking huge amounts of gas from there tanks, of course they are idiots and it took me much longer then it should have to convince them I am trying to save their sorry ass’s. As much gas that was pouring out of there and then not to notice is simply amazing.
So I get to NE and once again, construction and I hit a dip in the road at 50 mph and the bounce basically caused a flat, so another 2 hours waiting which leads me into my last post.
So last night I drive from WY to OR with the intention to stop in The Dalles for the night, I find a place with parking and get a rude desk clerk so I decided not to stay there and that is the biggest regret I have for this trip. I then go to another hotel, a Best Western of course and as soon as I pull in I realized I just screwed myself hard. It took me 30-45 mins to back out, no room at all to turn around, talk about being VERY pissed. So I am once more on the road and call Pauline and she looks up a few places in Troutdale and calls and gets prices and told “yes, we have room for parkingâ€
LIARS!
I go to the first place and long story, missed the entrance due to construction, so I drove in circles then finally got to the right place and once again, almost got into a place I couldn’t get out of. So I try 2 others and same thing, I then hit what I thought was a gravel parking lot, but turned to be a new sidewalk so hard, I thought I flipped the trailer, I mean shit went flying all over the place in the cab and the trailer and our truck was bouncing like crazy. No idea how I did not see the curb, I got lucky there it could have been MUCH worse.
So I’m pissed, tired and stressed, so I get back on 84 and the very next exit I see another hotel and I get off only to see once again no parking space for a truck, then I see a very small sign “Days Inn 2 miles†and its pointing into town and away from the highway, I pass a few signs saying “no semis†so I get my hopes up that I will find parking. I get to the Days Inn…. No chance in hell.
Then I see a Holiday Inn down the road and what the fuck do I see?????? A crap load of open parking space????? It must be sold out, so I park, and walk in to find that have a room so after looking for 2+ hours I got a room at 1:30 am local time.
And here is the best part of the story.
I found this hotel by 100% fluke I had no clue where I was, where I was going I was just driving and it is literally next door and shares the drive way with……………
The Budget truck center that I am suppose to return this truck/trailer into.
This morning I unloaded our truck and parked it and returned the trailer, in a few mins I’m going to go to my new home 4 miles away, unload the van and then return it here and drive my truck home and call it a trip.
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