Texas

This is my second trip down to Texas and I quite liked the drive down. It takes three days to get down to the Mexican boarder and now that I am here I am regretting not packing any shorts. Its 22 degrees Celsius and is a vast difference to the -13 when I left.

I tried to get unloaded this morning, a day early, but the guy told me to come back tomorrow. So I am just sat at the truck stop, squeezing in a reset of my hours, ready for whatever job the satellite brings me. I think you have to be a special sort of person, to be able to sit around waiting for "tomorrow". I think I would be better suited to Team driving, as it is high octane non stop stuff. Trouble is though, you need somebody that wants to rush around like a blue arse fly, and I haven't met anybody like that yet. Everybody seems to like the, put your feet up lifestyle.

The first days driving involved 700 miles of Montana and Wyoming. The roads were quite slick most of the way, but I eventually made it to the Wal-mart in Casper. This is where I called it a day, once I had done my shopping, and I got a good solid six hours in my pit. Once I was up I sat staring at the clock, waiting to go. In America you have to have ten hours off in one block. I prefer the Canadian system where you only have to have eight.

The second day my Tom-tom showed me the way to Amarillo. The roads were much better and I was flat out all the way down through Colorado and the little bit of Oklahoma you go through, to get into Texas. Both days were thoroughly uneventful and some might say boring, but I like driving, knowing your bank balance is growing by the mile.

The third day was solely in Texas. It is a massive state, that reminds me a bit of Holland. The only difference is they have cows instead of flowers and boots instead of clogs.

According to the film "Full Metal Jacket", the only thing to come out of Texas, are Steers and Queers. I have now seen the Steers and if good fortune continues, I can carry on avoiding the Queers.

Lets hope I go east from here and clock up some good mileage.