If there is one thing I have learned about life, it is that it is always an adventure … if you’re doing it right anyway! My husband recently finished CDL school to become a tractor-trailer driver after 30+ years in the billboard industry. When he submitted his resume’ after receiving his CDL license, there was a flurry of responses from trucking companies … some worth considering and many not even worth reading about. In no time at all, he had found a company he was comfortable with pursuing options with, and we found ourselves heading to Bainbridge, Georgia for orientation and tractor-trailer set up for him to begin this new journey.
The first thing to deal with was knowing what and how much to pack for him to work and live in his tractor. Our Dodge Ram was PACKED TO THE RAFTERS literally, but it is hard to know what to bring and what to leave behind. We figured it was better to have too much than not enough, and we knew that I could always bring back what wasn’t needed or what couldn’t fit!
Today, as I write this, it is orientation day, and I am sitting in the hotel waiting for the arrival of my son and his girlfriend. We have plans to kayak at Seminole State Park together, help my husband set up his assigned tractor-trailer, and have a meal together before we all retreat to our “corners” — Jeremy and Ceili back to Tallahassee, my husband to his tractor, and me to the hotel.
Jeremy and Ceili have exciting news they want to tell us when we are all together tonight, and Mike and I are beginning our new lives … it is an exciting and an unknown day for us all in many ways.
I decided last night that, because this adventure will be so very different than anything we have done together before, it needed to be documented in a blog. Since I already had a website which I am in the process of revamping (more on that later), this was the perfect spot to begin documenting.
So, if you are here reading this, welcome to the next adventure in our lives. We have always felt that a moving target is harder to hit, and we will definitely be moving targets!