At the beginning of the year I started my journey to get my CDL and become an OTR trucker. From the first moments behind the wheel it immediately felt like piloting a giant spaceship. With all the gauges, buttons, sounds and of course size and weight… not to mention the industry jargon of being the captain of my own ship - I couldn’t help but think it was a space faring vessel! So needless to say once I got out of training and got into my own “spaceship” I had to name her the Rocinante! And as of this week I finally started the audiobooks.
I had never really given audiobooks as a medium a chance but I started listening to fictional podcasts like Midnight Burger on my drives a few weeks back . Listening to stories unfold really lend themselves to driving nearly 11 hours every day. Needless to say I fell in love with them and then it struck me… I need to take the plunge. I had seen everyone rave about the audiobooks, now it was time! It’s been less than a week and I’m already on Abaddon’s Gate. I thought I was obsessed with the TV shows - the books are literally heroin. At night when I’m in my bunk drifting off to sleep all I can think about is getting up in the morning, doing my pre-trip, warming up the drives, powering up the systems, and starting up my book all while I pilot my Roci across the cosmos delivering goods to the people all over galaxy!
I apologize for the sloppy photoshop, I’m on my phone out here on the road with no laptop, it was the best I could do in short notice and I was mainly excited to tell other fans about my quirky little Expanse journey!
Anyone got any ideas for fun decorations I can add to my spaceship? Further lean into it being the Roci? Maybe I can mount some PDC’s somewhere lol it could help with traffic!