I would not have believed it, but I saw it for myself!

Driving across our fair continent, well some of it anyway, you get to see all manner of wonderful and strange things. On our most recent trip I saw on interstate 90 in South Dakota the follow scene. Unfortunately I was driving and my camera was not at hand.... but I think you can all picture this.

A four lane high way with a median. A cop car pulled up on either side of the median and three cops standing in a semi circle in the median. Lights on the cruisers are flashing. As I approached my mind quickly did a list, can't see a car in the median, maybe a motorbike, ah maybe.... as I drew abreast I got to see just what those cops were up too. Why they were corralling a pig! Yes a large pig, very much alive pig. Well Three pigs and a pig, why it just doesn't get any better than that,too bad I didn't get a pic!

The following are things you can see driving along the highway, or stopped at a truck stop, or at a delivery.....






The road can also remind a person to be always humble, alert and careful. It has been along time since I have scared myself driving. So it was with great alarm and heart palpation's that I mistakenly took a corner on the trans Canada Highway just past Three Valley Gap. I was going way to quick and had to take all the road to make it.... Luckily for me it was late at night and there was no on coming traffic!

The morning after would have been terrible to miss....

"Borders" you got-ta love em NOT!

July 3 Courtenay
Again I will forge on without an audience, and without finishing the Haines adventure, cause Larry assures me that the photo disk can be found!

We have been out on the road for nearly two weeks straight, well with a four day break last stint and with 3 days off this stint, and Larry and I are getting a little punchy, well okay I'm getting a paunchy! Egad I have blossomed to over 150 smackers... Pretty soon I will not only be a trucker but I'll look like one too!

There are perks to this job and with our last run we got to collect on one of them. A day with my kids for free, well and I suppose I could say I got paid to make the trip to Kamloops too.
Sand boxes are great entertainment!



And no Chelsee and Maia and me are not part of the building crew!

Our most recent trip took us past the building of the next "Wonders" of the Trans Canada Highway BC style. If you haven't made a trek to Calgary lately here's what you have been missing....



In theory this bridge will cut out part of the old road above Golden that was threatening to fall into the abyss.
This trip also took us through my favorite "rest area" province in Canada "Saskatchewan". Were the question is always,"Are you supposed to pee in the dumster or beside the dumster???"


The remainder of the trip to McArthur Ohio, our usual gig was uneventful for us. I did see a tractor sans trailor on the side of the freeway in Indiana with the drive a few yards away on the cell presumably calling for a fire truck cause his truck was doing the flame thing! You often see the scorch marks but this was the first for me to see the flames.

Our return trip to Courtenay had two regretable events. The first a flat tire on the trailor. Again! On our last trip we had two flats at the same time. Sympathy is common on duals. And like the last time they happened on a Sunday when getting serviced is well a pain. Cause you are getting them out on their days off.

The second incident proved once and for all to Larry that Canadians are NOT always polite. As a matter of fact they can be down right rude, aggressive and self centred.
It's the border crossing at Blaine, the "I5" is backed up beyond the truck exit. Its like a line up for a boxing day sale only we are talking cars and big rigs, hot tempers and air horns. Not pretty. It took us three hours to get to the customs booth!