"At about 4:00 in the morning of March 28, 1979 the main events leading to the accident at Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station began. . ."

35 years ago today, a combination of mechanical and human failures led to a partial nuclear reactor meltdown at the plant just outside of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Tonight I'm parked at a turnpike service plaza within 10 miles of Three Mile Island.

I made my delivery in Manassas this morning and got a pre-plan going from Philadelphia (in the shadow of the Phillies home ballpark) to southern Wisconsin. This load scales out at a thousand miles and delivers on Monday morning. That's just about perfect for me to recover some of the hours from the long run cross country I just made.

Tomorrow will be a short day of maybe 500 miles. I think I remember a little truck stop just over the Indiana line on I-80. That'll leave me less than 300 miles for Sunday.

As expected, once I was empty in North Platte, I got a load of Tyson in Lexington, Nebraska. It was a drop and hook and was ready when I got there so I quickly headed back to Southern California.

The weather had changed overnight. A cold front slammed through overnight and I hit some snow before I got back into Kansas. The north winds were giving me a nice push most of the time, but were horrendous on the westerly legs.

I dropped off the load of beef tenderloin, (bound for Tokyo) in Wilmington, CA. While I was being unloaded, a pre-plan pinged in. Pick up Friday in Vernon going to Manassas, Virginia. Nice load! It's over 2,600 miles and gives me a chance to get a 34 hour reset at home.

Tomorrow will be my usual getting out of Vegas plan: sprint over to Lisa's Truckstop in Moriarty, New Mexico. The cafe there has some pretty good enchiladas! After that will be a 644 mile jog to Webber Falls, Oklahoma, and then 615 miles to Baxter, Tennessee on Wednesday. Thursday will find me in Virginia somewhere setting up for my Friday morning delivery. I love these coast-to-coast trips!

Had a very nice run today from Santa Rosa, New Mexico to North Platte. There was a good tailwind going north through Kansas and I averaged 7.3 mpg for the day.

Kansas

 

 

 

After delivering tomorrow, I have a pre-plan picking up in Lexington, Nebraska going to Wilmington, California. Here's hoping for a change in wind direction!

My Thursday dental appointment was interesting. They looked at my x-ray and immediately said that the tooth has to come out! There was no bone visible, just a black hole where the infection was. Easy enough. Pull the tooth, problem solved.

Now I'm sitting in Santa Rosa, NM on the way to North Platte, NE. I came out of the house Friday morning when it was determined that I was in no pain from the extraction. I had to bobtail up to St. George, Utah to get an empty that was left there, then deadhead down to Colton, California for a load of lettuce. All those empty miles have helped me average 7.4 mpg so far. Tomorrow is a sub-600 mile sprint to the Loves in North Platte, and then an 04:30 wake-up to deliver to WalMart.

I'm looking forward to racking up some miles in the next few weeks. I've had more home time in the last month than I usually get in six months!

Went to the dentist while I was in Sapulpa. My number 19 molar has an infection with plenty of pain and swelling. I was prescribed some antibiotics and set up an appointment to get a root canal back in Nevada.

So here I sit, home for a few days. I guess it's a good time to take care of some spring cleaning and tax preparation.

Las Vegas with Mt. Charleston in the background.

And poker. Lots of poker!