Almost Home

DATELINE: GEORGETOWN, KY, 7:58 p.m.

Miles Today: 558

Another long day, but at least with the promise of behing home tomorrow to carry me through. I started early by picking up an empty trailer at our Spartanburg, SC terminal, then got my next load assignment: pick up at a town a couple hours to the west, just past Clemson, SC, then take the load to the Toledo, OH area, for delivery at noon on Tuesday. A perfect assignment for getting home at a reasonable hour on Tuesday. And the weather was pretty much perfect today, too, for mid-February; sunny and warm. So it was an uneventful drive up here to mid-northern KY (about 70 miles south of Cincinnati). I found refuge for the night at a rest area here along I-75. I was planning on stopping a bit earlier, but this was the first rest area that was open in KY, save for the one just over the border from TN, which would have been way too early to stop.

Whoa! Although I wasn't while I was driving, all of a sudden, now that I've had my dinner and had a chance to unwind, I'm feeling like I've been working all day. So I'll wrap this up now and save you the inane babblings of a fatigued truck driver. Thanks once again (and again, and again, and again) for checking in on my progress, please keep sending me your comments, and keep right on truckin'.