Finally Home

We finally made it home! This is the first time since we left to go to Joplin on the 31st of Oct, other than an hour visit when passing thru in Dec.
From Fontana, we took a Con-Way load back to Henderson, Co, dropped it, and immediatley went over to the Pilot where we relayed a few days ago for another relay. We were scheduled to make another relay there and take the load to Richfield, Ut. I was a little concerned about a place to park and swap trailers. This was about midnite, and most truckstops fill up early, around 8pm or so. We lucked out and found the other truck in the fuel line while we were fueling also. We both pulled up from the pumps, dropped the trailers, and swapped. Nascar relay style :)
I should mention that the trip from Cali for Denver was great, esp along I-70 in southern Utah. We were going thru there in the afternoon, and it was really a gorgeous drive. I highly recommend southern Utah. It didn't get too bad even thru the Vail area tho it was snowing some up there. We were hoping to get over the passes and back thru them before it snowed too much. We came back over around 2am and It was definately abit worse, but still passable without chains. That area is never fun during winter.
We made another relay in Richfield, Ut about 10am, got a shower, and headed home. We got to Salt Lake and my old workplace of FlightSafety around 1:30, and got to see some of the old crew and SkyWest pilots that train there.
From there we went over to Sage Tech (our truck driving school) and visited with them and parked the truck for the weekend. We will go back Monday and visit with the students.
We have been having a good visit with our sons and future daughter-in-laws (yup, both boys engaged) and getting some good rest.
We will be here until Tues morning. We are hilighted to go Joplin for next weekend. The first Saturday of each month is safety day at the terminal for anyone that can make it. I also lost my company ID somewhere, so I have to get that replaced. We will need to be in Joplin either Friday before safety day or Monday after ti get that done, so we should be in Joplin for a few days next weekend. Our anniversary is the 6th, and we wanted a day off somewhere in that time frame also, so hopefully, it will be a nice weekend and get to visit with some of the other drivers and teams at the terminal.
Till next time, keep it safe out there.