Welcome aboard from central N.C. Life on the road is a mixed blessing. At one stretch in my life I think I actually took up residence (if you could call it that) about nine times in as many years, in terms of a mailing address. Later I had some regular business travel. I always kept my nose to the grindstone with school and/or work, but I found it seemed less numbing if I made a point of seeing something I'd see as a tourist, to get a feel for the places. I can't remember much of the details of the jobs themselves associated with the places, but the tourist stops, often done at breakneck speed between shifts, I remember vividly. The Indy 500 Track, Independence Hall and the mint in Philly, Bremerton Island out of Seattle, and so forth. It makes the hauling around feel like an adventure.