A Great Couple Weeks of Travel... Must Read!!!

Here is my attempt to summarize our last couple weeks of exciting travel!!!!

Levi and I were excited when his driver manager told us we were going to Phoenix to pick up our brand new 2012 Volvo. When we heard this exciting news we were on the East coast and made the long journey out West. Sure it was a long trip, but our excitment made it seem like a shorter trip. On our way to Phoenix we went over quite a few mountains, and of course Semi's are majorly slow headed up any kind of a steep incline. It was mid afternoon when we decided to stop the truck and let it cool. The truck had been turned off a mear 20 seconds when all of a sudden we witnessed a car accident. A truck plunges through the guard rail and down the side of the mountain! We jumped out of the truck and raced towards the scene and to our surprise the man had made it out alive. Just minutes after making it out of his truck the truck caught fire and soon the truck and surrounding grass was ablaze. We caught the fire on video and posted it to youtube.
Once we arrived at our terminal in Phoenix it took a full 2 days to get our truck traded for the new one. Once everything was transfered we could'nt believe how long we had been living in such a dirty truck. Levi likes to say our new truck is like driving a Cadillac!
From Phoenix we got a load going out to L.A. and boy was I excited, it was my first trip ever to California! I guess I never realized how mountainous Cali was, it certainly was beautiful! We arrived in L.A. in the early hours of the morning- I was half aspleep, haha. Just as we enter the city we see a helicopter flying low to the ground with it's search light scanning the interstate. A few moments later a car zooms past us with three police cars following! We were right in the midst of a high speed car chase! Levi coninues driving along hoping and praying the action didn't proceed to the exit we needed to take. Sure enough we take our exit and there on the shoulder is our affender with his pursuers hand cuffing him and stuffing him into the back a Police car. Durring all of this action we were even in the chopper's spot light! Thankfully we were able to get to our stop and park for the night.
The next day we decided to splurge and go shopping at a nearby mall for a few hours. We found an amazing bookstore where we bought way too many books and of course we hit Payless so I could get some winter boots. We finished by enjoying some Chineese food. =)
From L.A. we headed to Dallas. For a bit wed were super excited because my family lives near the Dallas-Ft. Worth areavand we thought we were going to be able to visit. But somewhere in Arizona Levi got a migraine and we had to stop driving for the night. Unfortunately those lost hours landed us not being able to visit with the family.
After we finished our load to Dallas we headed for New Orleans! Lucky for us because we've never been there. We didn't get to see much except for the downtown skyline, but we did stop for dinner and we had homemade gumbo and cornbread....mmmmm yummy!
From New Orleans we drove North to Greenbay, Wisconsin. We had been purusing the South so long that it wasz nice to break out the hoodies and jeans...I got to use my new boots that we bought back in L.A. =) We took a few days to get to our destination. and we were surprised at how small Greenbay was! But putting that asiade I was glad were able to find a cute lil' coffee shop- we ate breakfast there. Right around this time I get a Facebook message from my old Youth Pastor's wife that they are in Chicago and would love to meet up for dinner, so Levi and I get on the road and head that direction! (Luckily it was the direction we needed to head anyways)
This all took place just yesterday so technically I'm all caught up now as far as info goes. SO, yesterday we drove to the outskirts of Chicago and met up with our friends at a Pilot. Haha we ended up just eating at a nearby Long John Silver's, nothing fancy, but hey we were all truckers! We talked and caught up, (they hadn't seen me since highschool and here I am a college graduate and married woman) and then 2 1/2 hours later we went our separate ways.
Now Levi and I are currently headed to Muskogee, Oklahoma and toward new and exciting adventures. =)