New Years Resolutions...

I guess I started my New Years Resolutions about 3 months ago but I'm going to keep on doing it. I quit eating fast food and drinking soda. For the past 5 years I've been eating fast food daily but it wasn't so hard on me as I kept moving and was always doing things on the weekends when I was working locally and going to school. I rode my mountain bike, dirt bike and did other outdoor hobbies that kept me happy with how I looked... Well, In the last year since I've gotten really serious about trucking and I'm not just out here to see the country, I'm out here to make as much money as I can, I haven't been exercising. I was lazy, parking in the front row, eating Supersized fast food 1-3 times a day. I just didn't care. Well, If I'm going to continue doing this job for the rest of my life, I don't want to be a fat ass. So I woke up one morning and quit it cold turkey. I've given in 3 times since then and had Taco Bell (my absolute favorite...oh man...lol) but I've gotten better and now drink unsweetend Ice tea (yuck, but oh well, it's better than soda) and eat a sit down meal daily. I've gotten used to it and I look forward to it. Sitting down and reading the latest truckers magazine or listening to other drivers tell their stories.

Another resolution? Perhaps I could post more...???


Freezing rain is fun.



Picking up a loaded trailer in Iowa bound for Sacramento.




Blowing snow in Iowa is not fun.



-34 in Minnesota. Bernie, I don't know how you do it. Click on Bernies blog to the right and check out the kind of weather he has to deal with on a regular basis...No thanks!




ICCCCCCCCCY in Wyoming.



It cleared up in Utah and I thought that just maybe I could make it home without playing in anymore snow..........




I was wrong. Nevada was getting hit hard.





If the road is open I will keep on trucking, even if they require chains. So I had to chain up. I drove on snow packed roads for the first 200 miles of Nevada but for about 50miles somewhere around the middle they wanted us to put them on??? The roads were still the same? I was confused but I wanted to make it home for the holidays so I went out and put them on.







Fast forward two weeks and I'm back out Truckin'. I picked up a load here in El Monte, CA this morning. Here I am sitting in the left lane, parked and with my hazards on. I was waiting for.........






The roach coach to leave the clothing factory. He was parked blocking the dock...



I luckily made it on my first try and let all the annoyed cars by me. I was surpised, I only got flipped off and honked at once while blocking the whole road trying to back up...



Right now I'm sitting in Eloy, AZ at the TA for the night and will heading to Texas tomorrow morning. See ya

Chris

P.S. How do you guys know that I was driving when I took those photos of myself without my seat belt on? I was actually parked for those... I always wear my seat belt.