Trip so far with Mick

I have been chatting to Mick on the Internet and skype for many months now he passed his test the other day and was going out with Lyndon on his mentor trip but Lyndon was having a week off at Christmas with his family. so I said to Mick if he wanted to come with me I'd ask, all was ok so a its a trip down to Los Angeles. We picked up the trailer from the yard, fueled up scaled then set off for the border. I was driving and that's when I found out they had turned down my speed limit (see other post). We got down to the border and had to get an i-94 for Mick and had to renew my one as it was running out. We then went to meat inspection and found out it didn't open until 4 pm so we had a couple of hours to wait. Hank was there, a Dutch driver, so he got in and had a chat with us. The weather was bad the roads were covered in snow and it was getting dark so it was unfair to ask Mick to drive so I drove down to Dillon Montana. The next day Mick drove the truck we stopped a couple of times to have a pee and get a drink but we were pushed for time all the way down. I think Mick was a bit worried about backing the truck on the bay but I told him he had to do it otherwise how would he learn! When we did get to Los Angeles I took one look at the bay and offered to back it on for him but he said he would give it ago. You had to back up hill over 2 lanes full of traffic i just think there was too many cars waiting for him to get it in place so I took over from him and done it myself which made the car drivers happy(lol). We had to do a drop and swap in Long Beech when we got there everything was done for us even the faxing with pars sticker WOW saves loads of time UNTIL we picked up the trailer the lazy driver drove with a bold tyre so I know how George (The Big Trip) feels! We had to take the truck to a tyre place about 6 miles away on Christmas eve WOW thanks driver! After the tyre was sorted we were on our merry way (not)!! Because of the drive down we needed a long sleep so we called it a night at Barstow we stayed at the Flying J (who have filed for bankruptcy in the courts) we got a free meal from Volvo trucks and when I went to use my card to get a shower I had none left so the guy gave me a free shower coz it's xmas, then with a bit of English cheek I asked if he had another for my co driver which he did lol. We went to bed early (before I get any comments I've got 2 beds in here lol)we both slept very well and woke up about 6am. We then made our way to Las Vegas and stopped for breakfast I took a couple of pics, as we drove the i-15 goes by so close to the Vegas strip you can see most of the famous casino's. I am writing this blog while Mick is driving we have just left Nevada then crossed a small bit of Arizona then into Utah now we have the wipers on because its snowing. Merry Christmas everyone :-)