From Florida to Missouri

As we began our day, yesterday, it was pitch black out and humid as all get out.  Coming from the desert, we aren't use to the humidity , like in the south.  The only good thing I have found about the humidity, is that is gives you a moisture treatment 24/7, for your face and body.  I guess that is why most people in the South have good complexions.   When we reached our destination, we had to wait.  What is new?  It seems as if it takes forever for a lumper to unload a trailer.  It takes about 30 minutes to load one, so you would think that it would take the same amount of time to unload the same trailer.  Wrong! While we are waiting I usually find something to keep me occupied.  Be it reading, crocheting, playing games, working with my computer or just taking pictures.  As I was reading this morning, Tom, (that's my husband) said, "Look over there."  There were a family of birds.  Momma, Daddy, and two babies walking across the parking lot.  Just as if they were strolling to the park.

  I'm not sure what kind of birds they are.  I think they might be Emu's.  My friend Sharon or Janet might know since they live down in the area.  Well, Janet lives in Florida and Sharon lives in North Carolina, but it is all the "South" to me.

As we traveled on to our destination to pick up our next load on the interstate there are all kinds of bill boards, as we all know.  But some of them I can't believe.

Now I would like to know what the discounts are for and how much of a discount.  Does this place adhere to equal opportunity, that gives  women truckers the chance to see male strippers or is it just for the male truckers only?  The sign didn't give the name of the place, so I guess you just find it by the trucks parked out front of the establishment. (Husband, just told me that the name of the place is what is on the sign,  as I was reading to him what I had written.)

When we finish our day, we usually stop for the night at a truck stop.  I call them transient villages.  One thing for sure, you don't have the same neighbors all the time and some of them are interesting and others aren't so interesting.

All the trucks line up in a row, for the night or just while they go in to take a shower and get something to eat.  This is a typical truck driver, so says my husband.  But there are all different kinds out here.  It is the "Melting Pot" of the U.S..
  The trucks line up at the fuel islands to pump their gas.  Most trucks hold an average of 200 gallons of fuel and the price right now is $3.95 a gallon.  I think they are taking out a mortgage on the "farm" to pay for the fuel.  Because of the cost of fuel, the cost of goods we buy in the store has increased.  Diesel, is a by product of producing gasoline.  Go figure..diesel is more than gas now and just a few years ago it was the other way around. 
  Well, tomorrow will find us somewhere new, so I will see you on the Other side.