First two days.. whew!

It truely has been a rough start. Nothing too serious just a little stressful. To begin with the company in their emails and on the phone told us to pack light, bring only what we need for the three days we will be in the hotel and of course they would route us home to pick up everything else we would need for the truck. NOPE. They tried to send us directly on a run to Pennsylvania. Josh told them we needed to go home first to pick up all of our essentials and so they gave us a new route to North Carolina and should have enough time to get home that evening, sleep at home and then head out in the morning. WRONG. When we got to looking on his QUALCOMM (a electronic logbook device) they had put down that Josh was ON DUTY driving when he was in the class room. Needless to say that left us with no time to make it back home that evening, but the mini drama doesn't end there!

Once we get in the truck they assigned us we were let down by the fact that we only have one single sized bed. We were told we would get a bigger bed since both of us will be sleeping in it at the same time. We have no pillows..no blankets...no sheets...and no way of using the bathroom in the truck as all of our supplies are where? Yep at home. We managed to get some sleep. I wake up every few hours as the air conditioning like kicking off by itself and I wake up drenched in sweat and have to reset it for another hour. Wake up in the morning with a very stiff back and a grumpy attitude.

We make our way home and Im on the cell phone talking with our youngest son to put everything on top of our bed that we are taking with us as we have no time to spare to get to North Carolina on time. Josh and I take quick showers while our son throws all of our stuff into the back of the truck for me to sort out later. After leaving the house the rest of our trip is going pretty smoothly except the fact I now know why Josh wanted me to come along... to be his "secretary/cook/drink maker". He has kept me quite busy most of the time but I am happy to do it if it means less stress for him. We are now stopped in Corbin, Kentucky for the night and will make our very first delivery stop tomorrow. I am sure things will get easier from here.

Now onto very important things! The TRUCK. It has good points and its bad points. It rides smoother than other trucks I have been in but it has hardly any pull power as we learned on the hills of Kentucky. I have NO cup holder on my side!!! Yes that is important to me. My seat is a fixed seat with no adjustments but is fairly well padded and so it doesn't hurt my bum too much. It seems to be fairly clean which is a big plus! It does have regular plug ins for items but once we plugged the microwave into one of them it made a zapping noise but the other one seems to work so far.. keep fingers crossed. The QUALCOMM is in a weird place, it is on my side near my shins, so Josh is putting me in charge of doing that too. The biggest complaint of course is the bed size... oh dear... I am hoping tonight goes better and we get better rest.

I am going to close with supper. We are having pulled BBQ beef (as long as the microwave works) on tortillas and maybe a little fruit for dessert. I would appreciate any ideas for meals on the go. I just ask for a few things kept in mind: If needs to be refrigerated it has to fit in a cooler, if needed to be cooked we only have a microwave currently, and as few ingredients as possible if assembled on the road. Put on your thinking caps and have a good night!!!