A blog entry from Jeff's Truck

This is Jeff's truck and Jeff is a barbarous packrat that can't seem to throw anything away. I was loaded down till my springs had hernias and with what?!? A bunch of BOOKS I tell you. Books are in the sacred realm of untouchable for him; even clothing was secondary! No consideration for me... I think I will protest by eating more gas on the trip.

We left Mississippi while the humidity was gagging and my tires were melting on the hot road. It was noon and only 6 hours past the planned departure time. I don't have air-conditioning because I was originally built in the North, for the North. It felt good to slowly ascend the hills in Tennessee with the cooler air running through my air-filters. By the time we arrived in Ohio, there was a blasted thunderstorm; we could barely see. OH, and just a fun little tidbit... Jeff forgot to fix the headlights, so for about 800 miles we drove with the high-beams on! Sorry to every driver between here and Missip. Not my fault... finger's pointing at Jeff.

For its hot weather, Missip at least doesn't have the road repair problems that Penny does. We arrived in Penny only to have (no joke) fifty miles of road construction on the interstate. I got to look at the rear end of a semi-trailer for a good two hours! And my poor tires! There are only two seasons (really) in Penny - Winter and Construction. Those of you from here will know what I am talking about.

But, its good to be back. Jeff only took a week to unload me... barbarous I tell you! Now, he's working on sorting and packing for another trip soon which thankfully doesn't include me. He will be helping out the Grove City Alliance youth group as a chaperone to Brooklyn NY. They needed one more male chaperone, so he volunteered as a good friend to the youth pastor. Now all he needs to do is to finish raising support for Laos. Be a good friend and help him out... for my sake. If you don't, he's probably going load me down again (the sadist) and move to... Mexico! Who knows.