Saturday, April 11, 2009

What a long strange trip it's been......

Well, here we are 10 days later...Let's see if we can catch you up. Before we delivered in Salt Lake City, we got another job picking up across town and heading to Raven, Kentucky. We picked up Wenesday evening and had to have the piece of equipment there by 1 pm Friday.

The weather got rough that night driving through Wyoming. We had a couple of slides on ice and then traffic came to a standstill because the ice was so bad the trucks couldn't get over the hill about a mile ahead of us. So we sat on the highway for three hours with a couple hundred of our closest friends watching the salt truck try to make his way through the trucks to the hill. We finally moved on for a couple of hours but once we got to the top of the mountain, the 45 mph winds were blowing the truck and the snow so bad we pulled into a rest area to wait for daylight. Once the sun came up, the winds were still blowing but at least it was possible to see a little more. This is what it looked like:


When we saw this, we were glad we had chosen to take our time.



The rest of the trip was easier if not exhausting. We saw some beautiful scenery.

We finally delivered our cargo to a coal mine. We drove right to the mouth of the mine.
We have lots of other pictures to share and will try to load them into a slide show for you. Stay tuned...

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