October 15, 1989, 2009

FIRST 5 YEARS: (Sunday-Fulton, Missouri)
At home in Fulton, Missouri for the week. Stayed the night with Bart Barns and his family. Got up and the Barnes, my kids and I went to church. After church, went and rented a motel room and had my children over for games and cable TV. Took them home early as they have school tomorrow. (TOMORROW: Turkey hunting with my Semi-truck starts-3 parts)

SECOND 5 YEARS: (effects of air pressure)
I commonly would buy water to drink in the gallon plastic bottles. After I finished off the water, I would put the lid on the plastic bottle and throw it into my sleeper. When I got to a truckstop, I would refill the bottle. Well, I had a load of cookies to pick up in Chicago, Illinois and deliver to Casper, Wyoming. While I was waiting for my load of cookies, I finished off another bottle of water. Put the lid on the bottle and threw it in my sleeper with two other empty bottles. I went on to deliver my load in Casper. Another truck from my company delivered more cookies here in Casper. After we both were unloaded we called dispatch and were told to deadhead(go empty) to Ft. Morgan for meat loads. We talked about the routing and figured it was only 5 miles further to go through Laramie, Wyoming as it would by to go through Cheyenne, Wyoming. We took Hwy 220 west to Hwy 487 south. We then took Hwy 287 east to Laramie. This took us over the higher altitudes(over 10,000 ft) of Wyoming. Anyway, we got to the "Just A Truckstop" in Laramie and I went to grab my water bottles to refill. All three were blown up like balloons from the lack of air pressure at the higher altitude. Took the lids off and the bottles went back to their original shapes.