In Reserve for the last day of March.

Details about the 'fancy sidewalk' to follow.

Off to Marion, Va. tomorrow and then to Paulsboro (home for a week sort of)

Broke down in Eastern Tennessee.
More details to follow.  Got to get going!!!

Back in Gary after a week.  Went to Edmonton and back by way of South Saint Paul.


Went through Carrington, North Dakota. I took a video in honor of Lynne. It was raining as can be seen.

Exercised at Gary again when I got here.  Peak8 on Stairmaster.

This trip was the second time I have been to Edmonton.  Actually was delivering the same stuff to the same place as last time.  The directions are wrong.  I had sent in corrections but they did not get done.  Almost like a note in the file to remind somebody to make the corrections. 

Alberta and Saskatchewan are definitely booming.  There are radio ads for all sorts of oil/gas field types playing all the time.

INTERESTING ITEMS (details to follow)
 Public service announcements in some language that I have never heard before.  -- Native American I assume since they talked about Native American issues also.

The sports news lead story was NHL hockey --Edmonton OIlers or Winnipeg Jets, BUT second and third stories were about Curling.  Apparently there is an international curling competition going on and team Canada had screwed up and lost their first match, but had battled back and with a win over Korea and Switzerland would get out of the roundrobin round.
The third story was about some curling guy that is going to retire after this season.

The tenth and last story after all the local hockey tournaments and who was going to be drafted by which NHL team was about some guy named Lebron James and the Miami Heat.  It is all a matter of perspective.

Native Americans are referred to as aborigines.   After looking up the definition is makes sense.
;

ab·o·rig·i·ne

 [ab-uh-rij-uh-nee] Show IPA

noun

1.

one of the original or earliest known inhabitants of a country or region.

Anyway it was weird to me to hear about aborigine rights or a suspect in a police bulletin decribed as an Hispanic male or aborigine male.

 

Time to head west and north.  I have lingered in Gary long enough.  No WiFi for a few days.  And only limited communication once I cross to Canada.  Our AT&T plan has a real gotcha for international calls. 

In Gary, arrived mid afternoon, exercised Peak8 stairmaster.

got chains for out west.

Called broker and changed my crossing point from Couts, AB to Emerson, MB.

Decided that traveling through Chicago would be easier at 2 am tomorrow morning than 4 pm this afternoon.

Exercised Wii Yoga and Peak8 on stationary bike.

Just found which direction I will be going tomorrow.  West and North.

To Edmonton, Alberta

 

Weather Channel shows a big storm in the Rockies but it magically disappears North of the 49th Parallel.  So I should be OK, ....NOT!!!

This may end up being fun, but then again maybe not. 

At home doing chauffeur duty  [gotta remember to go the speedlimit on Detweiler even though it does not matter because the light is red!!]

Exercised Wii Yoga, leg lift routine with weights 3X10, Peak8 X-C ski machine.

Home at 545 pm yesterday.  Just missed going to dinner with my lovely wife. But did do WII Yoga to get back in the groove.  "Did you know doing Yoga everyday makes it more enjoyable?"  We wish there was a way to turn off the annoying comments in the Wii...Last night the first thing the Yoga guy said was "I am a little tired from being up late last night!"  Huh??? it was 6 pm.you fool!!


This morning exercised WII yoga, Peak8 on stationary bike

Became very familiar with the Indiana and Ohio turnpikes last week. Back and forth; forth and back.

In Coraopolis again. Tomorrow to New Kensington, Pa and then to Paulsboro.  That will do it for this cycle.
According to John (the guy who received the lube oil), his wife's mother's sister.  (Aunt, I guess) researched the derivation.  She was a college professor with PhDs etc, liked to read/research stuff and never married because she was the type that drove men crazy --[his words] She wrote and had published a pamphlet on the subject.

The river and falls were named by the first explorers in the region who had heard of the Indian name that sounded similar to chagrin or a least close to the sound.  When they happened upon the falls/river which appears suddenly out of nowhere and the discovery of its existance is quite distressing and dangerous.  So they were quite "CHAGRINED" by the falls

Here is the villages official website:  http://www.chagrin-falls.org/Visitor_Welcome_Center

The village has a nice video of the falls all lit up for Christmas -- less intimidating I guess/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=kdnU5payR1g#t=6s

delivered the nasty hazmat to the fertilizer place at 4 am.  Got clean tank and got loaded with some sort of Lube oil component and am headed for Chagrin Falls, Ohio.. For some reason the internal Angst-meter is flickering red.

In Gary, Indiana waiting to go to Chicago Heights for 4 am unload.

On way here, thought of SRC, found a penny miraculously.

In Cory, will go to Neville's Island tomorrow morning and then off to Chicago Heights.  first non- heat in transit since I have left home.  But it is Haz Mat.

 Not a bad week. to Canada twice. Then to Pine Bluff, Arkansas.

How is this for good Luck.

The day before I passed through Harrisburg, Il.  There was a tornado that wiped out a strip mall. I did not see the former mall, but did see a whole lot of tree damage along the interstate.  It was very windy when I went through.  I got fuel at the truck stop one mile north of Harriburg. It was so windy that it was hard to walk across the lot to the truck stop office.  My fuel economy was around 5.5 due to heading into the wind the whole time. (lost about 2 miles per gallon.  Now I find out that yesterday afternoon about 6 hours after I was in Harrisburg, another set of tornados came through and wrought more destruction. When my relay gets to West Memphis, I will be traveling back through that town.

Ran out of hours at the customer and spent the night on their property.  The setting was a giant pine forest, which makes sense since the place is called Pine Bluff.


Sitting in West Memphis, waiting to go to Chicago.  Exercised Peak8 stepper 19 minutes. {I forgot my sneakers so I should get extra credit for performing with steel tip work boots and work-clothes - gym shorts and steel tip shoes are too strange even for me}