Todays cars and some stuff from last week

Hey fellers and ladies, I got back from Georgia late last night. We filled up 8 generators with diesel, and done around 30 inspections on propane sites. Most of the sites were in eastern Tennessee and the hubs I worked out of were Atlanta, Chattanooga and Knoxville. I've been out east before but I was in my early twenties and stayed on the interstate system. I'm kinda weird and notice things that other people wouldn't. Also I built roads for 8 years in thev90s. When you work on cell towers you get to see parts of the country no one else would ever get to see as some of them are very remote. Anyway here on the west side of the Mississippi River for the most part roads are wide and somewhat square even in the ozarks. Out there it seemed that they just paved over the old trails and logging roads. Sometimes going just 6 miles between sites would take over 30 minutes. Then you realize some of those roads the groundwork was layed over 300 years ago and well a lot has changed. It was the same when I worked in Illinois also. Out in Oklahoma and kansas everything is pretty square and I could be at sites in less than 10 minutes in a lot of cases. This kinda stuff is neat to me and I was kinda a history geek back in school.

The 1st pic below is the cars I bought today, the second is some air conditioners that were in a cell site at a storage unit. The 3rd was one of the hills we had to climb to get to a tower and the others are just some scenery we came across

We gotta nickname you "Willie" Ya know.. "On the road again"

The road layout was hard for us to get used to when we moved from Iowa/Missouri to Maine. There, if you missed a turn, you just went another mile and turned there. If you needed to, you could just keep turning each mile and get back to the place you missed. Here - no. We learned real quick the truth in the saying "You can't get there from here". If you miss your turn - stop and turn around. If you're on the Interstate, you're just screwed.

Originally Posted by Mick

The road layout was hard for us to get used to when we moved from Iowa/Missouri to Maine. There, if you missed a turn, you just went another mile and turned there. If you needed to, you could just keep turning each mile and get back to the place you missed. Here - no. We learned real quick the truth in the saying "You can't get there from here". If you miss your turn - stop and turn around. If you're on the Interstate, you're just screwed.

We get paid by the site and are working in teams now until all the contracts are finalized. After they are finalized they are talking about assigning us hubs for maintenance. I asked for Oklahoma City and Tulsa because LTE (faster than 4g I use an iPad to upload data) is everywhere and I can get 5-6 sites in a day because of the roads.

Thanks for the update and pics Cory.