Wednesday, May 16, 2007

A scorcher in Arizona? Surprise, surprise...

Got off to an early start and ran from Palm Springs, CA to Eloy, AZ, about midway between Phoenix and Tucson. Waited an hour there to avoid the rush hour in Tucson then finished out the run to Nogales. Our freight forwarder there is a small operation with some very basic docks, but they got me unloaded in about two hours which wasn't too bad.

The roads around Nogales are torn up with paving so to get back on to I-19 was a chore. I made it to the local truck stop (a Pilot with what has to be one of the largest parking lots of any Pilot I've ever seen -- Mucho Grande), fueled up then shut down for the day.

Just 102 degrees out when I was being unloaded; 108 here at the Pilot.