Everything is BIG in Texas

It has been a LONG two weeks and I am headed home tomorrow. Well this trip has been interesting. I stole Melissa's camera and tried to grab a couple of pictures while I was working.

This is a tram (kind of like a ski lift) that we had to take to get up to the top of one of the mountains. Let me give you a little history about it... It was made in the early 1930's, it only balances on one cable, so if the wheels slip.... down you go. Anyways it was the scariest thing I have ridden on.

Here is the tram taking some of the people up to the top. After it gets past the tower it goes straight up. There is only one car and it takes 15min to get to the top and then 15min to get back down to the bottom. It also is only suppose to carry a maximum of 600lbs, well after 3 of us big guys got in there and through in a bunch of tools and heavy radio parts we realized we were at about 750+ and it made quite a few unusual noises.

When I got to Texas, I gave Enterprise my name and they brought this out to me, only 400miles were on it. My dream truck (minus the color) but I didn't mind. My company must have been reading my mind.  Now it has over 2500 miles on it.

This was one of the more mellow roads but I kept forgetting to take pictures of the really bad roads.

Here is my skid plate (under the truck, check out the left side). We had a couple of races to see who could get down and up the hills the fastest and I couldn't let my Tundra get beat, so it had to take a couple of battle wounds (oops) but we did win.

A funny story (I wish I had gotten some pictures), We where driving to one of the sites and I had another guy following me in a new Ford Taurus X station wagon. Well he would ride my bumper all the time no matter what I did, so on the road that we were driving on it had these concrete washes that you would drive over making a perfect jump. So I speed up to about 65mph and hit this thing, my truck flew through the air and landed, I then look in my rear view mirror and no joke it was Dukes of Hazards, the station wagon was at least 4 feet off the ground. After he landed I couldn't stop laughing and he pulls up next to me and said he had no idea that, that was coming. It was a good laugh and a good time.

Can't wait to get home.... August