Life as a Trucker

On Monday Jamie, Matt and I went to pick up the trailer from the place where it was having final repairs finished. After we got the trailer, we headed back towards downtown Nashville to pick up Skip, our supervisor. Skip will be joining us for our first event in Texas. We didn't end up leaving NashVegas until after 5:00. Our pit stop destination for the night was Little Rock, Arkansas. I drove the first leg of our trip, which ended up being about a four hour drive. It's funny because when you are pulling such a huge trailer you don't really look at the landscapes you are passing through...you just focus on keeping that hog on the road! We stopped right after we crossed the Arkansas border to eat and switch drivers. Jamie drove the rest of the way to Little Rock.

On Tuesday we left Little Rock at about 11:00. Matt started off driving and apparently our GPS (that we named Karla) led him on the wrong interstate. It wasn't until we were stopping to refuel and I looked up from my magazine that we realized we were heading for Oklahoma. We were about 50 miles too far and the only decent route for a trailer to get back to Interstate 30 (the one we needed) was to turn around and go back to Little Rock. Needless to say, we ended up eating lunch in Little Rock 2 hours after we had left Little Rock...ha ha!

Now off to Texas for real this time. Skip drove the majority of the day and then Jamie drove the rest. We got into Duncanville, TX (where we are staying for the duration of the week) around 8:30. We dropped our junk off in our rooms (which I have decided I am going to eliminate about half of my luggage because it is no fun to haul around) and headed to Pappadeaux to eat. It's a seafood chain in the south and was very good. We were all so tired that we headed to bed right after dinner.

Today was "load-in" day for the event. It doesn't start until tomorrow but we had to load-in a day early, which is typical. We are really close to the stage and the venue is called "Country Thunder" It seems A LOT like Country Concert back home. Then we went to the airport to pick up our rental car and the rest of the day was ours. It kind of hit me while we were loading in that "I can't believe this is my job!" I got paid today to park the trailer at the venue while I formerly would have been typing away at a keyboard all afternoon...I love this!