Travel Blog

Something unusual and very nice happened this year for Christmas. The company I work for is a trucking company, which means that we work all the time. How can anyone in trucking be guaranteed time at home on specific holidays? It’s hardly possible. Our company basically says that they can’t promise this except that on…

I just looked at my last entry in the blog. I am doing a horrible job at writing in my little blog. I have really got to get better at this. Since I’ve only stopped for a rest break, I’ll save the rest of my blog when I get shutdown in a couple of hours…

I was really hoping for one of those runs that nothing happens, other than the delivery of goods (on-time) and the pick-up of goods to come back to Dallas. An uneventful, “regular” run. That didn’t happen with this run. On the first leg out (the first day), I had two tires (side by side) blow…

I’ve installed Ubuntu 10.04 on my son’s laptop. He’s not using the laptop for a little while, so I thought this would be a good time to try 10.04 to see what kind of changes they’re doing with Ubuntu. My first thoughts… I really like what I see. Little changes here and there that just…

I’ve got the software up and running.  I’ve got some personalization done and I think it’s ready to go.  Tomorrow I head out to New York and I think I’ll try to start with some posts about the technology I take with me on the road.

For the past few days, my back has been hurting.  It makes it very difficult to sleep!  Hence the reason for writing this post at 2:00am!  I don’t know why my back is hurting, but I do know that it probably wouldn’t hurt if I didn’t have this weight on me.  At least, that’s what…

When I was stationed in Germany, the unit was a mobile unit and we were often evalutated by deploying the unit to another location to see how good or bad we were. This photo was taken by me and it was the front cover of the Air Stations newsletter, called “The Northern Scanner”. On the…

Delivered my load to Winchester, VA yesterday and on my way back to Dallas. We’ll have our Thanksgiving on Saturday. Happy Thanksgiving! [Posted with iBlogger from my iPhone]

I just wanted to wish everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving! Sent from my iPhone.paul@ptgizmo.comhttp://ptgizmo.com Paul Turner and family