STRAYCAT’S DOGGONE BLOG

Life Day 21203: Lodi Leisure

July 31, 2005 on 1:14 am | In On The Road |

On the 30th, I left Rice Hill at 0845. I drove to Canyonville, OR (home of Seven Feathers Casino). I took a 1/2 hour break here because they have a little ‘grassy’ area on which to walk the MMM. I drove from there to our Terminal in Willows, CA. Just before Corning, CA a fitting for the air-line under my drivers seat came apart. Although noisy, and upsetting to the MMM, there was no rapid air loss, so I decided to continue the 6 or so miles to Corning. Luckily, I had the parts available to make the repairs myself, and did so, then continued to Willows after a 20 minute delay. I filled up with fuel here because, even though I might possibly be a little overweight, there are no more State Inspection Facilities (Weigh Stations) between here and my destination in Tracy. I drove from here to Lodi, CA where I stopped for the night. I worked 9.75 hours, of which, 9.25 were utilized driving 457 miles.
Today, the 31st, is a day of leisure (hence the clever title of this post). My delivery time is not until tomorrow at 0900, so I won’t leave here until tomorrow AM about 0800. It’s only about 30 miles to Tracy and although there is our Terminal in Lathrop, and a couple of Truckstops which are closer, I’ll stay right here. The Terminal has no facilities other than bathrooms and nowhere to walk the MMM without trekking a couple of hundred yards across concrete. The Truckstops are in Stockton, and are rife with riffraff and all other forms of sub-human miscreants. Here at the Flying J, I have serendipitously secured a primo WiFi parking spot away from the traffic, yet with an unobstructed signal. I’ll spend most of today copying CD’s to my hard-drive, with a couple of meals and MMM excursions interspersed at appropriate intervals for variety and/or to alleviate the monotony.