I'll let Sweet fill in the backstory -- it's pretty cool!
Anyway, Wednesday saw my first opportunity to get in a non-farm/non-move/non health related road trip (i.e., fun!) since Winchester.
Took the trailer to Jasper, AL (about 2.5 hours from here) to pick up a truck bed for Sweet.
The young man selling the bed was a very interesting guy -- he is a welder fabricator and on weekends, he works down in one of the local coal mines repairing mining equipment (about 2,000 ft down). He had fascinating stories about his work. Just riding the elevator down ... he gets on the elevator with about 60 other guys and some equipment. He looks down through the open grate floor and sees a tiny light way way way down .... it's the 40 by 40 foot room at the bottom. Cool!
Anyway, my trip took me through Huntsville (a town I'm getting to know pretty well...), Decatur (1st time there) and Moulton, AL. The ride from Moulton to Jasper was ... interesting. Nothing but forest for about 30 miles. Beautiful state road with nothing on it but the occasional log truck swooping by at near sonic speeds.
The truck bed was easily picked up by the two of us, flipped over and strapped down. And I was on my way home. Except for a bad wreck in Jasper and the usual afternoon rush hour in Huntsville, it was a very pleasant ride in the Quigulator.
It was warm enough that I was in t-shirt and shorts and riding with the windows down. The only bad part was how noisy empty aluminum trailers are ...
Chris?
~ John
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