Ho, Hum

DATELINE: CARLISLE, PA, 6:31 p.m. EDT

Miles Today: 535

First order of business: Many congratulations to reader Jim the Baritone for nailing yesterday's "Name the Musical Reference" challenge. It was indeed the CSN song you named. Now on to today's happenings.

You may recall that yesterday I set my goal for today to reach Bethel, PA. Well, I stopped just a bit short--about 50 miles--by choice rather than circumstance. I'm at a Flying J truck stop here, one that's on the company's network fuel stop list (I fueled up here on Friday on my way down south). I do need to fuel up, and I'll do that in the morning. (Right now, the dinner hours, the place is a zoo and the line at the fuel islands is long.) I also figured that, with the possibility of rain in the overnight forecast, I'd rather be at a place with a paved lot, than the Bethel terminal's dirt/mud lot. I can also use one of my FJ shower coupons--earned by buying fuel at FJ's--in the morning, too.

Today's drive was, as usual, mostly uninteresting. The weather was great, though, as it has been the past few days. I did have a bit of a slowdown on a detour at one point because the highway was shut down due to a rollover truck accident. But that just slowed me down by about 1/2 hour. It was right after I had stopped for lunch, so I was in good shape to sit through a traffic jam.

Like I said, it was mostly an uninteresting day. Tomorrow will be a short work day 'cuz I only have 6 hours left of my 70-in-8-days (tomorrow is day #8, then I'll get 10 back for the next day). So after my delivery in the morning, I'll have just a few hours to either beat a retreat to a truck stop or get to a pickup assignment if it's relatively nearby, then beat a retreat to a truck stop (or perhaps the Bethel terminal). I'll let you know how all that goes in tomorrow's update.

Thanks again for the use of your eyes (and hopefully their connections to your grey matter). Please do use your fingers (and hopefully their connections to your grey matter) and send me a comment. And do keep on truckin'.