Time Out

A few people have ask me when I'm going to get back to my blog. I'm afraid it may be awhile before I can do this again regularily.

If you look back over the last six months, I have been getting farther and farther between posts. What use to be once or twice a week has become once in a while. The biggest reason is because my situation has changed significantly from this blogs inception.

Look at the title -- Traveling the USA. When I started this, that's what I was doing; driving around the country on a permanent, 'paid-vacation' living the dream. My motorcycle was on the back of the trailer and I went wherever I wanted doing as I pleased, for the most part. Life was good.

Last year I got my own Motor Carrier Authority which meant I got to keep ALL the money I generated rather than sharing with someone else for putting their name on the side of my truck. But it also opened a whole new way of making money. I was able to have OTHER owner/operators working with MY name on the side of their truck. My plan was to take a small percent and continue doing what I was doing but generating extra income for me.

It didn't take long to realize that I could make MORE money by concentrating on having more drivers out there working. Plus, I didn't have to drive as much. As much as I like to drive, running 80-90,000 miles a year means 'living' in your truck -- ALOT. Sitting on the beach in paradise and dispatching 2 or 3 other owner/operators became the norm. But I lost alot of the new subject matter to write about. I wasn't Traveling the USA anymore.

Then my dad went in the hospital in early December 2010 and my priorities REALLY changed. You can read my last couple of posts and see that. After he passed, a whole new set of priorities emerged. And that is where I have been these past two months. My travels have been limited to FL to GA to IL to FL to GA to IL over-and-over.

My life has changed in ways I could never have imagined six months ago. But the reality is, I am not Traveling the USA much these days. So this blog has very little purpose today. It's not The End; just a time out.