Was the title for the Airshow at Nellis AFB in Las Vegas. We got there early and stood in line for an hour for a short bus ride to the base. This airshow is HUGE! I’m sure I was the only one at the airshow taking pictures of trucks. But this was pretty cool. The big screen on a trailer. The screen would show the planes (of course) and would switch to pictures inside the cockpit of the various performers. They also had a Predator flying above the show being controlled from 50 miles away taking pictures of the airshow [...More...]
Jun 082011
Jun 082011
Baltimore Skyline, originally uploaded by Adventures In Trucking. The skyline from our tour boat on the Inner Harbor. The day we were there the Volvo Ocean Race was in port. It’s a sailboat race around the world. I think it’s mainly to push the new line of Volvo cars in an exhibit. We got on the one hour cruise that took us out to Fort McHenry and back. There are water taxi’s, lunch cruises, dinner cruises to tour the water and buses that tour the downtown area. The inner harbor is really nice with shops and restaurants, museums like the [...More...]
Jun 082011
Biloxi, MS, originally uploaded by Adventures In Trucking. We delivered some furniture to Harrah’s casino in Biloxi, MS. Almost one year after Katrina and Biloxi looks like it happened yesterday. The coastline is still a disaster, but as you move inland the damage is less and less. About a half mile from the coast and you can’t tell anything happened. BTW, this isn’t Harrah’s, but here’s more pictures of fallen buildings and the coastline. It was a little spooky driving around town seeing only foundations in some places. A lot of people living in travel trailers next to their foundations [...More...]
Jun 082011
Downtown SF, originally uploaded by Adventures In Trucking. Next to the Westin Hotel unloading sound and video equipment for some kind of show or conference. Notice, I’m NOT in the picture. Two teamsters inside the trailer and stage hands waiting at the tail to take equipment off and roll it inside the hotel. I hate driving downtown anywhere, but it is more of a challenge than the interstate and keeps things interesting! This time went pretty well both inbound and outbound and I went straight to my next load in Burlingame. Here are a few pictures of the Bay Bridge [...More...]
Jun 082011
Statue of Liberty, originally uploaded by Adventures In Trucking. Kind of like We’re at the Superbowl! We’re in the general area, but not actually at the game. We’ve been home since the first of February. I’ve been doing some short hops and some local stuff while Cindy had to go to Minnesota to take care of some truck business and to see family. The company we haul for got a contract from Adidas to drive their custom trucks and trailer from Saint Louis, MO and once in Vegas to drive around the strip. Which is a traffic nightmare. The night [...More...]
Jun 082011
Today we were going to find a UPS box and see a movie, instead the directions for the closest UPS box led us to Celebration, FL. the town built by Disney. The houses and the town square look like it came out of the little town from the Truman Show. Everything was perfect. Perfect lawns, perfect houses, everything. We ate outisde at the Columbian restaurant, then sat in the rocking chairs next to the lake and enjoyed the sun. We didn’t get around to a movie but driving around the town seemed like we were in a movie! Electric Vehicles [...More...]
Jun 082011
Originally uploaded by Adventures In Trucking I realized I hadn’t put our Alaska pictures online since I moved Adventures in Trucking to it’s new home. I was going to split them and get them organized a little, but they would never get up here. There are 44 pictures, some of British Columbia, Yukon and Alaska all from the Alcan Highway and back. Anchorage, Whittier, where we took a tour of the glaciers and our fishing trip from Homer. For those new to Adventures we took a load of store fixtures to Anchorage back in July 2005. Originally uploaded by Adventures [...More...]
Jun 082011
Niagara Falls, originally uploaded by Adventures In Trucking. After spending the night at customs because the paperwork we were issued wasn’t right, we finally delivered a bunch of office furniture to downtown Toronto on Saturday. We found a truck stop right on Lake Ontario and were able to drop the trailer and bobtail to Niagara Falls for the day. Here are some pictures and if the upload works, a short movie from our new camcorder, here for the youtube movie.
Jun 082011
A little boring as we are staying in the truck for a few days while waiting for our freight that we delivered to Texas A&M on Wednesday morning. We will be returning it to California after we reload on Saturday. Since trucking has been slow we are not looking for a hotel to park the truck. We will stay in the truck and take lots of walks with Willie. We found a Mexican Restaurant next door and we had some strawberry margaritas and dinner. I wish we would have brought the TV and some DVD’s but books, word puzzles and [...More...]
Jun 082011
The Gaudette Monster Truck sitting in center field. Originally uploaded by Adventures In Trucking After visiting family, it’s always nice to get back into our own routine. We might have a load tomorrow and we may not. But our home truck is back from the shop and ready to get back to work. We had a blast with the kids at the BMX races in Isanti, there were older kids and really older kids racing. I wasn’t sure what to expect, but it was a lot of fun. Willie was a handful with a house full of kids, another dog [...More...]