Snow in The South

Left home Monday and running down South to see some nice weather for a change. Big Mistake! Cloudy all week, across the Mojave desert of CA all the way to TX. Fortunately I was ahead of the storms until Thursday morning,when I ran into a record 1' snowfall outside of Dallas. Roads were pretty good,and the snow kept most of the idiots off the roads. Snow on the ground all the way from Dallas TX to Atlanta GA.
Keep on Truckin
The Iceman

Lonely Roads

12/3-12/15
A week and a half of one load after another trying to get home. Left Ohio on the 3rd and took a load to Draper Utah. From Utah to Seattle Washington. From Washington to Idaho Falls Idaho. From Idaho back to Utah, and finally home to California.
Snow and Ice on and off but pretty lucky as I seemed to be either ahead or just behind the storms. Stopped one night at Wendover NV and the snow started about 30 minutes after I stopped. Woke up to 8" of snow the next morning, but the snow had stopped and the roads were pretty well cleared.
Alot of lonely roads because of the weather, but made for some pretty good pictures

Merry Christmas
and
Keep on Truckin
The Iceman

Running down South

Left home on the 10th and went to Temple Texas for the 13th. Traveled I-8 in Arizona (Picture of Saguaro Cactus)and I-10 and US 190 to Temple Texas. Still think I-10 between Fort Stockton and San Antonio in Texas,has to be the loneliest Interstate in the country (Picture). Nice sunset though(Picture). On US 190 I came across a fancy Courthouse in Brady Texas (Picture) Like most small towns, all the highways meet at the courthouse and go around it in a circle. Drove from Temple TX on to Owensboro KY with my second load, but mostly nothing to take pictures of or it was too foggy to get any good pictures.

Keep on Truckin
The Iceman

The Great Western Circle

Only on the road for 10 days, then back for a weeks vacation. Went from Fresno, south to Los Angeles, north to Oregon, east to Utah then Colorado, south again to Texas, then back to California. Parked at a truck stop at Weed California, where I had Mt Shasta as a backdrop (See picture).
Traveled US 97 along Klamath Lake Oregon (Picture) Heading east I took I-84 out of Oregon, which follows the Columbia River for quite a way. Note the insanity of today's world (Picture)with the pinwheels on the side of one of the most powerful rivers in the United States. All the water power going to waste instead of turning generators for electricity, and useless Government subsidized pinwheels being installed above the river.
From Oregon to Texas, I stayed only 12-24 hours for 4 days ahead of a large winter storm which dumped a couple of feet of snow across Wyoming and Colorado.
From Texas to California along I-10, ain't much to see but cactus and hills (Picture)

Keep on Truckin
The Iceman

On the Trail of Lewis and Clark

Delivered a load in Hermiston Oregon along the Columbia river. Drove to Lewiston Idaho for a load of paper then onto Missoula Montana, all the time driving on the old US 12 which follows along different rivers and was the trail that Lewis and Clark followed. From Missoula to Bismark Montana along I-90, also the route of Louis and Clark where they turned south on the Missouri River. I just kept on going west to North Dakota. (Picture along the Oregon side of the Columbia river with Washington on the other side)
(Picture along the Clearwater river in Idaho)(Picture of "Rush Hour" in North Dakota on I-94)

Keep on Truckin
The Iceman

Los Angeles Fires

Been one of those weeks. From Home to Southern California,onto Saint Louis Missouri and Indianapolis Indiana. Headed from Indy to Oklahoma to keep Wal-Mart in stock. While in the Southern California area last Saturday,I got to see the big fire. Picture from the I-605 looking at the fire to the North. On I-15,to the East of the fire I got 2 pictures of the fire looking West toward the sun. On top of Castaic Pass on I-15,almost 40 miles from the fires, the fire department had just put out a fire caused by falling embers. The last 2 pictures were taken from a truck stop at Barstow California, almost 100 miles from the fires. The wind was blowing all the smoke toward Barstow and it was pretty dark at 5pm because of the smoke

Keep on Truckin
The Iceman

Working My Tail Off

From Georgia north to Chicago, back to Georgia, north to Iowa and home to California. Weather changing and darn near cold in Iowa overnight in the 30's. Passed alot of present day Hippies going to Nevada for "The Burning Man" festival, one had an old motor home painted yellow like a school bus. Picture of a fancy County Line Marker in Florida. Dated 1930, so figure it had something to do with a land boom back then. Another picture of Airstream Trailers planted in the ground outside of Tampa FL.(Probably a take off on 1960's Cadillacs planted outside of Amarillo Texas) Last photo of the National Corvette Museum in Bolling Green KY.

Keep on Truckin
The Iceman