last post.......

as i said, it was very cold.....even down to -4 degrees!

this may very well be our last post....marc and i are pretty much done with trucking for now. the whole experience has been quite hard on our relationship, as well as dangerous! just this last week, we had a run from chicago to boise....right through a very cold arctic storm that swept through illinois, iowa, nebraska and wyoming. it took us 5 hours just to get out of illinois, after which we sat at a truck stop in iowa for 24 hours, waiting for road crews to sand the icy roads. once we started rolling, we saw 151 vehicles wrecked off the interstate, including 18 semi trucks! it was unbelievable...and a wake up call that it could have happened to us! here are a few of the many accidents we saw....

                                            not us, but it could have been.....