In my last post I mentioned that I’d changed jobs within the state. What I’ve been primarily doing here at the farm is running farm stands and making deliveries (and eating a lot of free eggs). The deliveries aren’t too bad, especially since I don’t have access to a gym anymore. Lots of loading and unloading by hand so that’s taken the place of weightlifting.

The farm stands can get interesting. They’re all indoors, in some type of small building, without AC and sometimes without running water or toilet facilities. So, I make sure (especially on the 100 degree days) to take plenty of my own water and a wet dish towel. That dish towel gets stored in the cooler and I put it on my neck several times during the hottest parts of the day. As with any other assignment, I’ve learned a few things on this one. For instance, round watermelons are seedless and oblong melons have seeds.

And now I’ll be heading east in less than 1 week. This time, the drive across will be done in a more leisurely manner. My GF Jean isn’t really up to very long driving days so we’ll plan on stopping earlier each day, in an actual RV park instead of a rest area or truck stop. One of our planned stops will be Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas. Who knows? We might just get a lucky find and bypass Amazon altogether. I’ll mostly be happy with an incident-free drive.