Sat, Sept 27.... Lobster Bound...

We ran our legal amount of hours yesterday which took us from Kentucky to New York.

Being pretty tired when we arrived at the truck stop, we ate, listened to the McCain/Obama debate and then we talked about the congressional bail out that is on the table. After deciding what congress should do and how the economy should react… we made the command decision that we should go to bed.

We started early this morning, knowing we had to drive our legal amount of hours again today. We drove through the remaining part of New York, Massachusetts, a little of New Hampshire and we are now in Maine!

We were excited to get this dispatch. CFI doesn’t haul a lot to or from Maine. Neither of us have been in this state before, so I did some research on the route we’re taking and we decided, if we drove smart and stopped little, we could stop and have dinner in Portland, ME. We both enjoy being close to the water… the seafood, the atmosphere, and for me… the old buildings… and for Trapper... sail boats. Port cities usually have an interesting history and always sail boats!

It’s been raining all day… we’ve been through some quaint places and have seen some beautiful landscape. We get into Maine and the temperature drops and it’s foggy and raining. The load must get there…. Regardless! We’re still on time so no problem…..





All this fog... we need this guy in front of us! We spotted (which wasn't hard to do) this truck last night. You could see this guy coming for miles!





I’m still looking on the internet at Portland, and where we’re delivering, and where the truck stop is that we’re stopping at tonight. I’m checking the map and listening to Fox News…. Trapper and I look at each other, puzzled like… "Did they say Hurricane? Where? … Maine??… WHAT????"

Ok, so, I should have been a weather person… Trapper says I’m a disaster tracker… I automatically go to the weather channel site and absolutely, positively, without a doubt… Hurricane Kyle… “Hurricane Kyle headed toward Maine/Nova Scotia”…. what the heck! We skirted around Hurricane Ike, two weeks ago, on the gulf coast… but we’re in Maine! Another hurricane??

We see the exit for Portland and our lobster dinner… we kept driving… both of us disappointed… it’s pouring down rain and a hurricane is most likely going to brush the coast of Maine Sunday night into Monday morning. We don’t leave until Monday because we have to get our reset on our hours in. The forecast, for where we are, is a little wind and a ton of rain.

As we were eating our Subway sandwiches... we hear on the radio that Maine has not experienced a hurricane in 17 years… we just grinned at each other...