Posts Tagged ‘Colorado Springs’
Hopefully on the road tomorrow
We have spent the weekend in Colorado Springs, Co. Our load is 27′ wide and therefore too wide to be allowed on the highways over the weekend. Tomorrow, we have to drive about 50 miles back to where we left it, and then we take it up into the high mountains southwest of Denver. That [...]
The Tragic Death of a Colleague
Tonight I learned of the death of a friend and colleague this week. Karen Aleman (or possibly Alleman) died Tuesday evening in a rollover accident while returning from escorting an oversize load to Colorado. I do not have any specific information about the funeral, other than it probably will be in Lafayette, LA. Apparently, Karen [...]
I am home today
I made it in about 10 PM yesterday. It always feels good to get home and sleep in my own bed. On the way down, I tried to visit with Alice Eisenhower of Alice’s Pilot Cars in Colorado Springs, but unfortunately she was busy. I DID stop in Raton and had lunch with John Owens [...]
One load dropped…another to pick up
Today, I dropped the load I’ve been on since last Friday. There were two notable experiences related to that. The first was a 20 mile trip around a lake on narrow winding 2 lane roads with a 14 foot wide load. Actually it wasn’t nearly as bad as it could have been. Traffic was lighter [...]