Manderfield

I am going to try my very hardest to go to sleep early tonight, since I've not been very good at getting up early (3am) and staying awake to drive. (I've had to take a nap the last few days once my trainer started us out on the road around 6am, just couldn't keep my eyes open or my head up.  Don't worry, she was driving-I was in the bunk.)  I get to sleep in 'til 5am tomorrow morning, but I'd still like to get a good solid night's sleep, so I'll try to keep this short.  Just a few thoughts from the past few days:

-I drove my longest ever in one day yesterday, almost 450 miles.  And today I drove my longest stretch between breaks, I think it was about 4 hours.  I am physically and mentally exhausted at the end of each day, but I think I'm starting to build up my tolerance, so that is good!

-Yesterday I drove past a town called "Manderfield" in Utah.  :)

-I also saw a sign in the middle of nowhere (maybe Utah), that said, "We buy antlers".  Ha!

What else...tonight I'm in southern California, near Bakersfield-there's just so much sun!

Oh, and we are not recycling out here.  I mean, my trainer's not recycling, and I'm not gonna make a stink about it.  But we're drinking bottled water...and tea, and juice, and soda...and driving a huge diesel powered truck all over the place.  I'm gonna have to build my own self-heating cabin out of plastic garbage bags and walk everywhere for the rest of my life to make up for the damage I'm doing to the planet right now. :)

That's all folks-oh, except you should all send warm thoughts to my other half.  She's not feeling well and is dealing with snow in Wyoming right now.  Stay warm and be well cousin!

-Amanda