Two Short Trips

It was two short trips this week. Trip #1 was up to Grand Island, Nebraska. We took 5 vans up to help open a new territory for the company.  Did you know that Nebraska once had an island 40 miles long?  Yep, it was “Grand Island”.  The surronding branches of the Platte River formed it.  That trip was on Monday and Tuesday.

Wednesday and Thursday I helped take 2 vans down to Childress, Texas. The photo showing is from Shamrock, Texas about 50 miles north of Childress. I really enjoy seeing restored buildings and businesses along the old Historic Route 66. 

We are having a stretch of perfect weather here this week.  My son’s 21’st birthday is next week.  Any ideas of how to keep it sober??? Lol Have a great and enjoyable weekend.

Enjoy,

Ed

Busy Springtime

Why is it that springtime is always so busy? I thought that when I retired that I would be able to sit back and just let spring happen. That has not happened. Lol 

I can’t even count the days it has been since I was able to sit down here at the computer and type a blog. Anyway, I am sure everyone is as busy as I am so we all understand about being absent for a while from blog land.  Since my last post I have made a couple of trips. One was to Trinidad.  No, not the Bahamas, (I wish), no: this Trinidad is in Colorado.  It is south of Pueblo on I-25 just north of the New Mexico border.  We stayed the night in Pueblo at a motel next to a railroad track. I thought that for sure the track was just a small feeder line back into some factories so I was not expecting a train to go by in the evening. The cool Colorado night air beckoned me to open the window to feel the crisp mountain air as I slept. Well, you guessed it, about 10 pm I thought a plane was landing in my room. I jumped straight out of bed, not easy for a 55 year old man.  A train came roaring by. I closed the window. 

After dropping off the van in Trinidad I was taken to Colorado Springs to fly home. The first leg of the flight was on a small prop plane to Denver.  The Denver airport is an awesome place to just hang out. I ate lunch and Wolfgang Puck’s place. Excellent!  The last leg was on a Boeing 737 but it was packed. I was assigned the last row next to a window.  The two gentlemen that sat next to me were, shall we say, LARGE MEN.  The air was not working very well that far back in the plane so needles to say it was a long, hot, uncomfortable ride home.

On my next trip I was dispatched to Ft. Worth, Texas.  Actually it was a small town just north of Ft Worth called Haslett.  If you are a Nascar fan it is just west of the racetrack there.  Spent the night in Oklahoma City on the way down. The trip down was on a Monday after we had just had over 6 inches of rain in the area.  It was interesting that on the way down to Texas all the creeks were overflowing.  But on the way back to KC, 24 hours later, the creeks were back in their banks and the rivers were overflowing.  We had some flooding here in the Kansas City area as well on the Missouri River. One of the parks I like to walk at in Parkville, MO was underwater. 

I did a movie run on Thursday to Columbia, Jefferson City, and Lake of the Ozarks all in Missouri. That went well and was glad to be home early.  We did “Mom’s day stuff here today with cookout and the like.  Hope all of you are doing well. I will now try and go and check out what has been happening in your neck of the woods. 

Have a great week,

Enjoy,

Ed