Battleship and Causeways

Just east of Mobile Alabama, is “Battleship Park”.A museum of sorts containing the Battleship “Alabama”,(photo) a WWII Submarine and now they're starting to add Warplanes. Need to stop here sometime and check out the Sub like my father served on in WWII. I cross numerous causeways(photos) across Mobile Bay and river outlets and onto Florida. Around Pensacola FL, home of the “Blue Angels”, they have mounted Jets (photo) at the Interstate Rest Areas. Not my time of the year in Florida, nice weather, but too many “Snowbirds” from up North creating a lot of traffic and inflating the prices on everything.
Keep on Truckin
The Iceman

My Kind of Country

Through Houston Texas and onto Mississippi on I-10 today. Louisiana is my kind of country. Trees allover, green grass and water everywhere you look. (the Cajun music of my Southern Cousins doesn't hurt either) Just East of Breau Bridge Louisiana, I-10 travels for 18 miles on a elevated Causeway over the Atchfalaya river basin.One river,lake or swamp after another all the way.
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The Iceman

Boreing!!!

Along I-10 in Western Texas today. This stretch of road, between El Paso and San Antonio, has to be the most boring Interstate in the country. Speed limits of 80mph for cars and 70mph for trucks (a lot of good it does me with a 62mph truck). Nothing but desert, scrub trees, and brown grass with a cactus thrown in now and then. Even the towns are spread out, sometimes 50+ miles apart, and the type of towns, that if one blinks you miss them.
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The Iceman

Along I-10 From Arizona to Texas

One of those loads; Dispatch held it to the last minute,and I have to run my backside off to deliver it on time. Through fields of Saguro Cactus in Arizona.The Saguro grows in patches only in the Sonora Desert at certain elavations (picture) I-10 across Arizona and New Mexico is pretty much nothing worth looking at, with the exception of “Texas Canyon”.I-10 goes through a 2 mile pass called Texas Canyon, which is strewn with hugh boulders, many looking like they should fall down if touched.(Picture)
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The Iceman

On the Road Again

Picked up in Compton California and headed to Atlanta Georgia, with a stop along the way at Lakeland Florida. Expected light traffic today, the day after Christmas, and traffic was the normal daily rush hour traffic in the Los Angeles area. Traffic may have been even a little heavier today because a lot of traffic to the malls.
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The Iceman.

Desert Snow

Took a load down to Fontana California, by way of the Mojave Desert. It snowed this week in the desert, and it sure looked strange, as it is usually dry and barren. Took a picture of a Joshua Tree in the snow. The Joshua tree only grows in the Mojave desert and the Holy Land, and is related to the Lilly plant. Home for the holidays in the San Joaquin Valley and looking forward to a White Christmas (Fog)
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The Iceman

Beautiful Country-Wrong Time of the Year

Sent into the mountains to the small town of Burney California. Beautiful ride as all the trees were snow covered and the roads weren't too bad, with only a few icy spots. The shipper is located about 4 miles off the main highway on a small one lane road I got to within a mile of picking up my load, when a loaded truck coming up the road slid off and got stuck blocking the road. No way for me or the 6 other trucks behind me to go anywhere for 9 hours waiting for a tow truck to pull out the truck blocking the road. By the time we got to the shipper, they were closed, and we had to camp overnight in their lot.
Keep on Truckin
The Iceman