Yeah, the fall scenery got me again. But I've got an excuse.
I've been driving past parti-colored mountains for a while now. Obviously (to those who've been reading this) I haven't gotten blasé about it. But it's become familiar.
Today, though, it was up close and personal. Walls of copper and gold, sometimes closing in until it seemed I was in a tunnel decorated by a mad scenery painter. Even in the mist and rain it was beautiful.
When I got a chance to look at it.
After all, I was driving a tractor trailer on a two-lane road winding through the hills of New Jersey. In heavy traffic. In the rain.
If your heart is lazy, try coming around a downhill curve to find a line of traffic stopped at a red light below you. Carefully apply the brakes, and feel the surge as your ABS releases them again.
Watch the car at the back of the line come closer as your brakes catch and let go again. Try to comfort yourself by remembering that if they weren't doing that, be back of your trailer might be trying to pass you right now.
Oh, yes. You might also remember that this is the first trailer you've had in weeks with a working ABS.
Heart woke up yet?
It wasn't as bad going back. Uphill is less scary. Mostly. And I was loaded, albeit lightly. Weight in the back helps. But I used a fair bit of fuel, time, and adrenaline picking up this load.
Oh, well. It's what they pay me for, I guess. And tomorrow's a straight shot to Indiana. Interstate all the way.
Guess I'll rest up for it.
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