Teaser Revealed
The other day I mentioned I had a surprise that I couldn't reveal yet. Well things are pretty much confirmed now. Some of you might remember the interview I shared from Trucker Path.
Trucker Path
Trucker Path is an app that truckers and travelers use to help find parking and stopping places across the country. It's helpful for for locating both major chain truck stops, the old mom and pop stops, rest areas, parking, restaurants nearby, Wal-Mart, hotels, and more. Every place has user reviews so you know what kind of place it is. How far away, what exit, what side of the road, etc. We love it!
Ok, so the BIG news?
Allen and I use the app all the time. After I spoke with them at MATS to do some cross promotion for Missing Truck Driver Alert Network they ended up interviewing me, as I previously mentioned.
Earlier this week they contacted me about a promotional video/ commercial they are filming. Trucker Path wants to have me and Allen in it! They've made arrangements with their production company to get us down to Austin next week for filming. The video will premier and play the whole time at GATS. I didn't know this, but apparently Trucker Path is one of the big sponsors at GATS, so I'm kind of blown away and excited all at the same time.
The AMAZING RRE team
Allen's company, Roadrunner Expedite, has been wonderful in working with us to give us the time to go there, company shirts, etc. Such a fantastic team and group of people!! So of course shout outs to Jim, James, Laura, Scott, Nicole, Patrick, and entire dispatch team! Y'all totally rock!
~Sierra Sugar
The other day I mentioned I had a surprise that I couldn't reveal yet. Well things are pretty much confirmed now. Some of you might remember the interview I shared from Trucker Path.
Trucker Path
Trucker Path is an app that truckers and travelers use to help find parking and stopping places across the country. It's helpful for for locating both major chain truck stops, the old mom and pop stops, rest areas, parking, restaurants nearby, Wal-Mart, hotels, and more. Every place has user reviews so you know what kind of place it is. How far away, what exit, what side of the road, etc. We love it!
Ok, so the BIG news?
Allen and I use the app all the time. After I spoke with them at MATS to do some cross promotion for Missing Truck Driver Alert Network they ended up interviewing me, as I previously mentioned.
Earlier this week they contacted me about a promotional video/ commercial they are filming. Trucker Path wants to have me and Allen in it! They've made arrangements with their production company to get us down to Austin next week for filming. The video will premier and play the whole time at GATS. I didn't know this, but apparently Trucker Path is one of the big sponsors at GATS, so I'm kind of blown away and excited all at the same time.
The AMAZING RRE team
Allen's company, Roadrunner Expedite, has been wonderful in working with us to give us the time to go there, company shirts, etc. Such a fantastic team and group of people!! So of course shout outs to Jim, James, Laura, Scott, Nicole, Patrick, and entire dispatch team! Y'all totally rock!
~Sierra Sugar
It was an innocent visit really, no need for the senseless attack. I was just sitting there minding my own business as it were, when out of no where *BAM* or rather *SPLASH* all over my back were streaks of icy cold water. Startled, I jumped to my feet. Nearly toppling over as I spun around in the small confining space, I both cursed and thanked those close walls as my forgotten pants fell to my ankles. With my now soaked back pinned against the locked stall door I watched in horror as the possessed icy water continued to spiral upwards out of this South Dakota rest area Ladies Restroom toilet and attack the walls as it once attacked me. Then all went silent. As quickly as it started it stopped. The water stilled. I pulled my pants up and rushed outside where he was waiting for me like always.
Yes, he helped me clean up.
No he still hasn't stopped laughing.
[This was experienced and written back in April. Yes, I had a good laugh at myself, you can too! Ladies, just be forewarned. If you're traveling through South Dakota and stop to use a rest area facility at night, the ghosts are pranksters!]
~Sierra Sugar
How can I feel perfectly content in our average (read small) 73" sleeper "big truck", yet feel claustrophobic traveling up and down the highways here on the East coast of the US? Logic dictates that there is more room outside the truck than there is inside, right? But as I stare out the windows each day at the trees and the green I can't help but feel a sense of being closed in, trapped. All I want to do is retreat to the comfort of the sleeper of the truck to write or draw. Where its small, where it's safe. How does that make sense?
America.
It has often been stated as being the greatest nation on earth by both Americans and foreigners alike. Every year there are not hundreds, not thousands, but hundreds of thousands of people that come to America both legally and illegally. This has been going on for a couple hundred years. Which just by itself says something. Parts of our history is ugly, yes. Parts of our present is ugly too. But a few things everyone needs to consider since America became, well...America.
I watched a video the other day of BHO giving a speech at Cambridge university back in 1995. I watched the full video, listening to him read narrative from his autobiography and explain to the crowd the words he himself had written about his life. About him growing up with a white mother and black father, his experiences, his influences. And ultimately what his presentation closed on was him identifying with something his mentor, a writer, a black man, said to him. That was that no matter how nice a white man was, there were no good white men in the world. Here he was with his white grand parents raising him at that time, loving him as only grandparents can. And says he realized he was completely alone. At that moment he had turned his back on all white people. It was chilling, and all I could think was "What wolf a in sheep's clothing"!
