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The Renaissance trucker is all about combining all of my various interests with trucking. Recently I have started singing while I drive. This is fantastic. I used to be sad that I could not practice an instrument while I drove. It would be very hard to play piano or guitar while driving.. But I certainly can sing while I drive.

After all, I don’t need my mouth to operate 13 gears of pure diesel fury.

So I have been practicing my singing and it is bringing me great joy. I have down loaded this app, iReal Pro that has charts and pre-recorded tracks for all of my favorite jazz standards. This is the greatest way to practice singing. if you can successfully sing songs from the golden Era of song you can pretty much sing anything. All of the modern songs are pretty basic in comparison. simple melodies, simple chord changes etc. All of these classic songs are like several songs smushed together.

So anyways… another benefit to singing is that it is helping me heal imbalances in my neck. There are certain ways that the vertebrae in my neck are misaligned. If you are aware of chakra theory, neck problems equate to problems with communication. The throat chakra is the center of communication and I have found this to be true in my life. Communication problems are fairly normal unfortunately. Poor communication seems to be the leading cause of confusion and problems between individuals and communities.

While I sing there is the various vibrations of all the notes that I sing energizing my neck. On a chemical level, the oxygen that I am bringing through my body is helpful. I am focusing on sitting up very straight in my truck and it is aligning my spine which is one of the most important things you can do for your health. The spine is the central column of the body. As you perfect this essential channel of the nervous system it brings great wellness to all other systems. I.e. respiratory, cardiovascular etc.

Some of my favorite songs that I’ve been working on are, A Foggy Day, Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square, Sophisticated Lady, My One and Only Love, and Black Orpheus

This post is for those interested in my journey

Just finished a load from Los Angeles to Detroit

Or rather I finished driving and am now waiting to offload at a customer. It is an hour after my appointment time and they are still getting their shit together. This is not unusual….

…. Haha. I guess their “ears were burning” cause just as I was writing this they hailed me in.

So I am back in my truck.

We got my tanker connected to the customer line. Now it is up to them to offload 6000 gallons into totes or drums. Totes are smaller units that hold 200-500 gallons.

Thank goodness! I was worried that I was going to have to do the offload

Anyways…. Just drove from Los Angeles to Detroit. That is a pretty long haul! Just over 2500 miles.

It was a great trip! I had extra time on this load so I was able to relax and take my time. I drove about a half day most days and took extra time at gymnasiums along the way.

Typical days I try to drive between 500 and 700 miles. But on this trip I drove between 200 and 400 miles per day. So luxurious! I got to sleep in!!

When I was in Los Angeles I got to have lunch with my brother and a delightful girl named Molly whom my brother is a father figure to. So she is kind of like my niece.

We ate some delicious sushi and went to a Mexican coffee shop where they had Mexican versions of standard coffee drinks.

I ordered an horchata latte. Mmmm. Delicious. Horchata is like rice pudding as a smooth beverage.

Molly bought me a jar of guava marmalade which is almost all gone now! I bought some traditional Indian fry bread in New Mexico to put that on! Fry bread is like a cross between a pita and a donut.

Obviously food was a big part of this trip. Lol

I also got to stop at a Sprouts grocery store in Oklahoma. This was treat because normally I shop at Walmart because that is the only parking lot I can fit my truck in.

Fancy grocery stores usually don’t have big rig parking.

I was able to park in a secret lot about half mile away my gym. After a workout, and on my way back to my truck, I stopped at sprouts. It was also a pretty good workout carrying five bags of aristocrat groceries three eights of a mile

life is all about habits. good habits, bad habits. All these define every human. I am getting back into these articles. I journal a lot but those words are just for me. These words are for you and i. It is much different writing words with the intention of someone else reading them.

I haven’t posted on this website for a very long time. I checked back into my account and discovered a lot of comments on my posts. So that is encouraging. Somehow the search engines are picking up on this website. So there you go. Stay tuned… more to come