week 2

Picture is at dock in Renton,Wa. You can barely make out the mountains behind the clouds in the background.

My week started in the Seattle area, Renton to be precise. Renton is also the Boeing hdqtrs, and we actually spent the nite around the block from Alteon Training which is the simulator division of Boeing. I had to deal with them some when I had a 737 simulator in Salt Lake.
Weather here is like you would expect Washington to be, cold and wet. Kim sent me a message this morning saying she got into her dock 90% on her own. My trainer heard that so when we pulled into the dock area, he got out of the truck, said have fun, and walked away! It was a little tight, but thankfully not as bad as we have had lately, so I managed it on my own. Afterward, we went on the board and waited for notification of a load. About 3 hours later, we were notified to deadhead to Salem Or for a load to Denver. As soon as we got up on the Interstate, a cancel notice came across. We just went back to the truck stop we spent Sunday at and waited another hour. Finally we were dispatched to Portland to pick up a load to Calexico, Ca. a 1200mi run. This will take awhile as Oregon and Cal are 55mph states for trucks. Calexico is about 30 from my Mom and Dad so hopefully we can at least have dinner with them Thurs.
I talked with Kim some tonite and they are in Pa. with snow on the ground. She drove all day yesterday but only a few hours today. They also had a police escort blocking all 3 lanes for about 5 miles due to a fatality accident. That got to her a little and the fact that it is a year since her Grandma passed away. Kind of a rough day for her. Hopefully she'll be back to her "entertaining" self shortly. They will have about 2600mi when they get to Conn, and we will have about 4600 when we get to Calexico. Her trainer told her to tell me they'd catch up by Friday. We'll see!
We head over the customer early tomorrow morning, hopefully it won't take long to load us and we can hit the road early. I have no idea yet what the load is. I hope it's not a real heavy one, we have to get back thru all the mountains again.