Semi Travels Part 3

On Saturday we got our load assignment; take garage door parts to Pompano Beach, Fl and oh by the way did you want to take two days off down there? Woohoo, Florida! Spring was very slow in reaching Erie this year so the warmer weather sounded like a welcome break. Tara had to drive her limit of 11 hours per day in order to make it on time though we did stop at a Huddle House off Exit 11 on I75 in Kentucky that had the best breakfast EVER! Fantastic short order cook, really nice waite staff and the best sausage gravy I've ever had. If you happen to be traveling that way I highly recommend a stop there. I one day we went from southwestern Ohio through Kentucky, Tennessee, North and South Carolina into Georgia. The next day was on to Florida all the way down I95.
The mountains in Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina are absolutely amazing. We went over Jellico Mt. and down Black Mt. in the Smokey's.
View from Jellico Mountain

The Smoky Mountains really do look smoky. Black Mountain was beautiful and very steep but was so overwhelming there was no way to get it into a photo.

On Sunday night we were only 100 miles from our destination and stopped for the night. We got up early to make it to Pompano Beach on time only to run into stopped traffic near a Rest Stop. Apparently a dump bucket truck was entering I95 from the rest area and pulled in front of a semi that did not stop or get out of the way in time.

Hopefully everyone was ok. We saw the dump bucket - solid steel construction meant no damage for him.
Finally we got to Pompano Beach where it took the hard working gentlemen at the garage door place 4 hours to unload the fully loaded semi. They did not have a dock so they had to pull the parts off by hand. The load was 33,000 lbs so most of those parts were fairly heavy. After delivering we went to a hotel in Boca Raton compliments of some rewards points I had and got a chance to stretch out and relax at the pool. Next up: the day at the beach and return travels.