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| Our trailer with the Tommy Hilfiger promotion on the side |
After many long days of driving and a lovely night spent in Phoenix at Corey and Nancy's house, we finally arrived in Los Angeles this morning. On our drive from New Orleans to the state line we once again saw the flooding that has been on the news. As the pictures show the water was very high. I also wanted to share a little story about the Palace truck stop before I forget again. The Palace is an independent truck stop that survived although not easily through Katrina. If you look carefully at the picture of the sign you will see discoloration of the left tip of the crown and the O and P, that is because those are the only sections of the sign that survived the hurricane. It was surprising to many that the sign actually survived the storm at all. A clerk shared with me that despite the hard times in the months follow after the storm the truck stop was able to stay in business. We highly recommend their pizza and wings special, since it added to our wonderful date night at the Palace.
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| Flooding in Louisiana |
After we left Louisiana we spent the next 2 days and a morning going across Texas and let me assure you it is right up there with traveling from south to north in California at 55 mph. You just think you are never going to get there. We traveled through New Mexico in what felt like record time and then stopped in Eloy, AZ for the night. Eloy is about an hour outside Phoenix and due to the three long days of travel (remember Vince can drive 11 hours in a 14 hour period) we stopped there instead of pushing into Phoenix later in the evening and finding out there was no parking. We called Nancy who was happy to hear we had time to stop and even cancelled plans for the evening so she could hang out with us. So we were up early Saturday morning, took showers and were in Phoenix by 10:00 am. It was great to be out of the truck for a day. We even got to the movies to see the latest Pirates movie. Unfortunately Corey was on trauma call Saturday so we were only able to have a quick visit with him at the hospital when we first arrived.
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| Flooding in Louisana |
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| Storm approaching on I-10 southwest TX |
Sunday was a short drive to a truck stop in Ontario, CA. We arrived there around 5:00 pm local time, had a quick dinner of leftovers from Saturday's dinner and were in bed by 7:00 pm. We needed to be at the Grove by 5:00 am, so the alarm went off at 3:00 am and after a quick breakfast we drove the hour down to the LA.
Yesterday we delivered a house that is part of a new promotion for Tommy Hilfiger called the Prep Shop. We spent the entire day at the Grove while they built the house in the middle of the mall. We had a great time and will try to get our stories and pictures which include Mario Lopez taping Extra, posted tomorrow. However, today we must get trucking to Stockton, CA to pick up a trailer that needs to be in NY by the weekend.
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| Southwest TX |
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