driving

it is 4:24am. zack is driving a big truck. we're in central california.
yesterday sarah drove 300 miles. (she says: if you we're on the 5 from 2pm to 8pm between l.a. and the 152, you passed us on the highway!)

it's very bumpy in here.

sarah and zack have the bottom bunk and linda has the top bunk. i sleep in sarah's bag.

linda is really nice. she did their drive tests on monday and they all really liked each other, so they requested to train together. sarah says she's kind of a free-spirited bohemian trucker girl. i don't know what bohemian means, but linda has done a lot of things and lived a lot of places.

sarah's uncle died on monday. sarah's been crying a lot this week. zack called linda the other day and asked if it was possible for sarah to go to the funeral tomorrow. linda is the nicest person on earth and let them go. so we're delivering a couple loads in the 'bay area' and sarah's cousin is going to let us stay with her family. i've never met the rest of the family. it's a sad time to meet them, but i'm excited to. sarah loves them a lot. she's told zack lots of stories, and sometimes when i hear them i laugh really hard. sometimes i cry. mainly this week.

it's dark outside. the only vehicles i see on the road are trucks.

yesterday sarah said that she was really happy that she got to drive through l.a. and santa clarita on her first trip. it was like driving through her hometown. and even though there was lots of traffic, she did really well and didn't get scared.

on wednesday liz and her kids came to visit us at the hotel where we had orientation. i was a little scared, since there are four kids and the oldest one is not even five years old! they have LOTS of energy. so i watched from sarah's pocket. charles is the oldest, and when he saw sarah coming he ran really fast toward us and gave her a big hug. then becca, the next oldest, came running and gave her a big hug and a flower. hannah was sick, so she came a little slower. she cuddled with us for a lot of the afternoon. they played in the pool and played in the room and ran around the lawns and ate pizza and drank 'chai' and juice at 'starbucks'.

sarah was very very happy to see them.

now it is 4:46 in the morning. the sign says that we are 88 miles from san francisco.

i'm going to go back to sleep..