New Career

Since the economy has slumped, Gordon and I have decided to get a new vocation. We are going to be OTR truckers. We had our first experience when we drove a sewer truck from SLC to Houston, TX this week. It was a 15,000 mile trek and it took us two-15 hour days. Actually, the city of Otovalo, Ecuador, worked with Charity Anywhere Foundation to buy the truck and we helped deliver it to the dock in Texas so it could be shipped to the port in Ecuador. What an experience. I want you to know that I can hold my road with the rest of the big rigs. We traveled about 70 mph and were in some heavy traffic in Albaquerque and Amarillo, Ft. Worth and Houston. Texas. I tried to drive a lot during the day so that Gordon could rest and drive the more difficult times at night. It was so noisy in the truck that we couldn't hear each other and I couldn't even hear my ipod either. We tried to read but it was so bumpy that it made our eyes tired. There was a "air ride" feature in the driver's seat to make it more comfortable, but as I was stretching my legs it would touch a button that would shoot me to the top of the truck cab. We couldn't get the air conditioning to work and the floor of the cab was as hot as an oven...really. We had to keep the windows open all the time or we would have been dry roasted. We had some VERY interesting experiences along the way. By the time we got the truck at the dock and scheduled on the ship, Gordon and I were exhausted. We had missed our flight home, hadn't eaten breakfast or lunch and felt like we could hardly walk because we have sat so long. Gordon is an amazing person!!! No one will ever know the hours of hard physical work, the stress, the ingenuity that he has that has made the accomplishments of Charity Anywhere happen. This was an example. What a guy!!