Boy have I been slow to update this blog!

I last left you when I was stuck in my home terminal in Edwardsville, KS.  I have back driving since last week.  Once i got all the new computer equipment and my inverter installed, I was able to take the E-log class and get back on the road.
Since I was forced into a break by circumstance, my status has changed with the company.  It seems that I was the player to be named later... to use a baseball analogy.....I have been put on loan to the dedicated Walmart fleet.  This fleet is located on Moberly, MO at a Mini Swift terminal located on the grounds of a Walmart Distribution Center.  The only freight I will be hauling in the future are frozen and refrigerated items to Walmart stores in a three state area. Missouri,Illinois and Iowa.  So far I have taken loads to the Saint Louis area, Central Missouri, southern Iowa and western Illinois.  The nice thing about delivering to the Saint Louis area is that I can take my ten hour break after the deliveries at home.  So far I have been able to do that twice and it looks like I might be able to.do it again this evening!
From what they tell me, it looks like I will be on loan to this fleet through the holidays.  The mileage on the loads aren't as long as the over the road loads, but it looks like I will be spending more time.at home.  Some things are just more important than money.

Last night I delivered in southern Iowa. I drove one route up there and decided to go a different way back to Moberly. I was rewarded for this decision by seeing a sign telling me that the "The American Gothic Home" was located just west of Ottumwa, Iowa.  I wonder what that really means.  Is the house that is featured in the famous painting located there? Did some enterprising individual build a house that looks like the one in the painting in hopes of developing a tourist attraction?  Is there some.type of museum there dealing with the artists works located there?  Who knows!  There is.a road sign dedicated to it on highway 34.   I just wonder why someone would want to drive off of the interstate highway to look at the outside of a house you can see in a painting........just a brief insight or what runs through my mind when I drive by these informational signs I see.....OK time for a.shower and some food before I head off to Festus, Desloge and Farmington, MO Walmarts with their frozen and refridgerated food items......Tom