This first book is my autobiography about living on the road for 17 years and raising my three beautiful daughters in
a truck. I have lived in Alaska for 18 years. My love of living in rural Alaska is exceeded only by my love of
truckin' to which I devoted 19 years of my adult life, raising three children in the cab of 18 wheeler trucks and I am
a wife to my husband, "Boly," a truckin man from the get-go.
Early in the book, I describe the moment when, as a very young twenty-one year old, I first took over the wheel of a
"big one." It was a lonely Washington state freeway in the middle of the night, my new found friend and main driver
of the truck, Boly, was asleep in the back, and I was alone at the wheel.
"What an awesome feeling to be in control of an 80,000 pound vehicle. The whine of the turbo when I accelerated
was exhilerating... I eased over the rolling hills with the sound of the engine brake rumbling in my ears... The feeling of
power and size was amazing. This is what I had waited for." At the end of my first drive, I said, "I set the parking
brake and breathed a sigh of accomplishment and relief that I had done it -- all by myself."
Between truckin' jobs, my husband and I wrestled with the wilderness in far-off Tok, Alaska, one of the northernmost
communities in this huge state. Like the homesteaders of old, we built our home from scratch on a parcel of acreage,
oftentimes enduring temperatures of fifty-degrees below zero while building. We have experienced both high-cotton and
hard-scrabble times with an attitude common to all trucker's...keep on truckin' to the end of the road.
I have written and published this book locally in Alaska.
