On a 34 Hour Reset

Over the past few days I've been working fairly hard. You wouldn't think so by looking at my log, but there have been a few 5 to 6 hundred mile days, and most of those being in the New England area. I'm not sure why, but driving in the Northeast seems significantly more stressful and intensive to me. Even though I've spent a fair amount of time on break, it's a restless feeling for me.

I imagine it's because it's an area that I'm not familiar with, but I have to think that it's also partly due to how cramped I feel when I'm there. Because everything you build must be first carved out of the trees and plant life, they tend to build things just big enough for their purpose. That's my educated guess anyway, but like I said, I don't know the area very well. What I DO know is that New Jersey sucks.

Regardless, I feel somewhat claustrophobic when I'm there, and you definitely have to be on your game as far as backing and close-quarter maneuvering goes. It's a feeling I'd never get in Arizona, where there's so much room to build a truck stop that it's sometimes bigger than necessary.

Anyway, getting to the point of the post...

Now that I'm in peaceful Dallas, Texas, I'm taking a 34 hour reset of my hours (see below post, second to last paragraph). I couldn't have picked a better day to take a reset, either. The weather here is beautiful, and given the fact that I've not seen the sun in like a week, I was ready for some time outside the truck.

Our terminal, in Lancaster, is just South of Dallas, and kind of out in 'the sticks.' I asked one of the local drivers if we were close to any civilization (food), and he said that we were about 2.5 to 3 miles away from a Cracker Barrel, but that was about it. I was hungry enough, and the day was nice enough to motivate me to get on my good shoes, shorts, t-shirt, and go for a walk.


I felt pretty wiped out by the time I got back to the truck, but it was worth the grilled chicken and strawberry shortcake. Tomorrow I go back to work--to where? I don't know yet, and that's kind of exciting.

Days remaining 'till home time = 19. Not that I'm counting.