Traveling with Tucson

Saturday, October 19, 2019

Trip South. Ohio to Missouri

It's starting to get frosty - time to book south.

A last dinner out with friends

A beautiful.morning for departure

We come to railroad tracks just before our turnoff to the Tire place. Gary asks if there are any trains coming. I reply I don't hear any and the lights aren't flashing so we keep going. We get the truck over the 1st set if tracks and the lights started flashing and the gates start going down

No way we can get across with a 36' 5th wheel behind us, so he puts it in reverse and steps on it. The gate comes down about 6" in front of us and a minute later the train is barrelling by. Too close!

We get to the tire place to get the RV tires replaced.

I took over the driving so no pictures until Gary took over near Dayton and the we went about 15 miles in 1 hour.

We finally make it out of Ohio

And get to Indiana before dark

We stay overnight at a huge rest area. Close to 150 Truck spaces.

Breakfast at Denny's and we are back on the road.

We play leapfrog with Arron Lewis tour bus and his tractor just outside Indianapolis.

I drove through Illinois then Gary took back over in St. Louis.

We pull over early at a Harvest Host location as it looks like rain is imminent

We split a flight before dinner.

We hoped to get to Oklahoma City tomorrow but it's 500 miles and we have only been averaging about 340 miles a day. Maybe if we don't run into anymore construction or accidents.

Friday, October 18, 2019

Trip West - Ohio - The Farm

We arrive at the Farm and they are logging - we encounter Swamp Mats
at the entry. They protect the ground near the culvert from the logging trucks.

Back home!

They put in a new road to take the logs out from the hill

It is a pretty good size

The logs are stacked at the top of the hill outside the woods.

Some of these logs are 60' long.

It is interesting to see them load the trucks. There are 2 Amish guys doing all the cutting and loading. They get here before sunrise and leave by 3 pm.

They left early in the morning on Thursday because that is the day the Amish have their weddings.

They separated the Cherry into a different pile.

8 logs and the truck is overloaded.

They were cutting down a big tree by our friends pet cemetery. Gary was up there and pointed it out to the loggers - they protected the headstones from the falling tree.

Timber!

The trees go down

Gets dragged out of the woods

and Loaded on the trucks - the beds are 53' long

The last load going out

The Hawk is still around

and a few songbirds

Tucson loves the Farm

We do too but it's time to move on and a beautiful day to hit the road.

Arizona or Bust!

Sunday, September 29, 2019

Trip West - Chatham NH - Last day

It's Sunday and Gary's friend Matt is home from his trucking route. He takes us up to see his property up on the mountain in the woods.

We follow him up the logging road.

Half way there we leave the truck as the road gets narrow. I sit in the bed of the truck with Rachel

Jackson and Reba ride with us. Tucson and Ginger the puppy ride inside.

We reach the top. Matt and Rachel got married up here 8 years ago and

Matt built this gazebo and alter for it.

The view is stunning

Gary doesn't look too happy that he was left at the Altar

A beautiful place to relax and have a conversation

When we got ready to leave we rounded up everyone but the puppy, Ginger. We decided to head back down as far as our truck to see if she had made it down there. She wasn't Gary and I headed back and Matt and Rachel went back up to see if she had gone back there.