General Discussion

The best parts to look forward to.

It took me a while to get used to not having a refer right behind me, I stopped hauling food a couple years before I retired and I found I needed to park near a refer unit to sleep. It took a while to get used to not having the unit run through the cycles, I was so conditioned to waking up if it wasn't changing cycles regularly! Then, after I quit, I had to get used to the other parts, no engine running under the bed, waking up in the same place every day.

The things I really enjoyed were being able to wash my hands and face whenever I chose and a shower every day if I chose. I may have retired from the road in '92 but there are some things that are still with me from those days, like my 'road time' mode once I start driving somewhere... I automatically find myself on a mission and not willing to stop to check out points of interest along the way like I was on a tight schedule. It was a little bittersweet when I drove to northern New England from Montana last year, I hardly needed a map, I had seen all those roads and places before... and will probably never see again. Glad I did it, though.

Enjoy your last year behind the big wheel, you deserve all the enjoyment you can get, road warrior is a hard job no matter how cushy you have it.