Elm Creek
Welcome to Elm Creek, Nebraska! We only had 45 minutes left on our daily time, so this looks like a good place to stop for the night. It will be a late…
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Original blog posts, updates, and memories from the earlier years of BigRigTravels. Part of our Trucking Days archive.
Backtrack
Welcome to Omaha, Nebraska for the second time today! We were rolling along fine, then I noticed the reefer quit working. I tried resetting it but that did not work. We have…
Read archived post →Walcott
I figure we can stop here today at Iowa 80 truckstop. In Walcott, Iowa. We have two days that will be easy, so nothing with a half day! They have a good…
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We are at the shipper right now, about 5 hours early, and they are going to load us! We got all of our services completed and they found nothing wrong so we…
Read archived post →Wyoming
Our next trip is now posted, we are going to Cheyenne! We will not be rolling until after we get our oil changed….. The next couple of days will be easy. We…
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Good evening to y’all! We had to do a random drug test this afternoon. We passed, of course. We will spend the night here in town then tomorrow get the oil changed,…
Read archived post →The big 30
We made our delivery and now we are heading up to Rochelle, Illinois, but we got awful close to our time running out…without a break. Eat lunch, then we will roll on…..
Read archived post →Geese
Good morning. We have just a few minutes before we can roll….. Yesterday, almost at a stop light, I saw a momma goose and one baby crossing the street in Grand Island,…
Read archived post →Iowa!
We have been moving way to fast to stop and play on the blog today! As you can see, we have our new trip and have already started on it. Lots of…
Read archived post →A Peculiar place…
Welcome to Peculiar, Missouri! We had less than an hour of drive time left so figured this was as far as we were gonna make it today. So, what did I do…
Read archived post →Scream
I could scream!!! We are overweight by 1500 pounds to the rear of the trailer. Normally that is not a big deal…but for more than an hour now I have been trying…
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We have arrived in Springdale, Arkansas and are sitting in a door. We will then drive as far as we can get on our drive times…..then finish up the trip as soon…
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