 Good morning everybody, the sunshiny day here in Northern Ontario, we're on our way home. We got all day today and a little bit tomorrow yet, and this trip will be over. We started at home, we went down to Cranford, New Jersey, then Hapog, New York, up to Ontario and Quebec, back down to Ontario, now through Northern Ontario, back to home. I'll put a nice little map up here so you can see our journey since I left home last. I'm looking forward to getting there and seeing the family. The old blue is ready to go, the truck is ready to go, I'm dropping my keys all over the place here. I'm gonna go grab a coffee, I'm gonna hit the road. It's gonna be a long day today, and I'm gonna try to use up my whole drive time, which is about 13 hours. Liquid life, start today, 1,634 kilometres to home, that's about 1,000 miles, won't make it today. On a good day out on the highway out west, I can get over 1,200 kilometres done in a day. Maybe sometimes close to 1,300, depending where I am and if everything smooths, just sails just smoothly, or smooths just saily, that's what I was about to say. We're going through Northern Ontario, so I can't run this fast. I can probably get 1,000 kilometres done, maybe 1,100. I don't think we're gonna make it to Dryden. 1,100 from here would still lead me with over 500 kilometres, and Dryden I believe is about 350 from home. Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Cross from Sault Ste. Marie, I think it's Michigan, at the US border. We're not going to the US though. I'm going to swing by Flying J in town and top up my tanks. I don't really need to fuel up yet, but this is the cheapest fuel going through Northern Ontario for me on this trip. To work on this road for 690 kilometres. And then figure out what we're going to be doing next week. This fuel in here will get me home. Then fuel is cheaper in Manitoba, and if I'm going south, well then I can fuel in the states. It's obviously cheaper there too, so. But just fuel up, that'll be a little bit here, not too much. Just enough to get us through Northern Ontario. We still have 1,380 kilometres to get back home. What is that, like 900 miles or something like that? We haven't gone too far today yet. I have another 10 hours available to me to drive. So we've only been out here for 3 hours. Long way to go. The cruise control button, my set and resume button, broke on me. It's not working anymore. So I ordered a new one already, I'll get it replaced as soon as I can. But for this trip through Northern Ontario, I've got no cruise control. It's a pretty simple fix, just you unplug this one, you gotta take the dash apart a little bit. And you unplug the old one, plug the new one in, by the way, by the way, you're all set. It takes a little bit of time, that's all. I ordered one, so hopefully it'll be ready for me when I get back, or hopefully it'll be there when I get back already. Quickly switch that out. But it'll make for an interesting day today as I got another 10 hours ago and no cruise control. Gonna have to be very careful and watch my speed carefully. I don't need to get anything here, so I'm just gonna grab fuel and go. You become so used to using cruise control over the years, that when it doesn't work, suddenly things get interesting. We're just leaving here now. Just grab fuel and I'm going. No stopping, no going in, no nothing. Fuel and go. I'll be fine without cruise, and it's gotta pay a little bit closer attention. Can't use cruise a lot of the time going through the hills of Northern Ontario anyway. You gotta constantly shift as you're going up and down the hill. So it's not that bad. Hopefully the park will be there waiting for me at home when I get there tomorrow. But I might have to go on one more trip without it. We'll just have an old school trip that way. No cruise control the way it used to be. Nothing but just the sound and the feel of the truck to tell you how fast you're going. And the speedometer of course. But I mean you can't stare at your speedometer non-stop all day. I mean you gotta watch where you're going, right? So you begin to learn to hear where your engine is and feel how fast you're going and feel the truck. Sort of estimate how fast you are. Long as you're not going too fast, right? I'm getting his speed and keeping up with him. Not following too close, but non-stop for a while. It was right in my eye. A bug that comes in off the lake because just off to our left is Lake Ontario. I believe, no, Lake Superior, sorry, Lake Superior. Rarely you find someone who's actually going a good speed through here and not either way too slow or way too fast. The exact same speed is us and we're not catching them and they're not catching us. Fantastic. Enough to take it wide. East of Thunder Bay. Been here a few times lately. Not stopping here for night yet. I'm just stopping in for a little break. Maybe a coffee or something. Grab a bite to eat and then we'll be back on the road. I don't want to get further yet. I have another three hours and 16 minutes available to me to drive. What's this guy doing here? Ignis, Ontario. Together about 12 and a half. Just under 1200 kilometers. Or I should have done this math before I picked up the camera, right? Always forget. I always forget. I speak in metric. 745 miles. So under 750 miles. I shouldn't say I speak in metric. We're Canadian. We have a mix. When you're talking about distance to get somewhere, we speak in kilometers. But if you speak in weights, officially Canada speaks in kilograms. But realistically, all of us Canadians, we speak in pounds. For measurements, for shorter distances, we speak in inches and feet. Like how tall am I? I'm 5'10". I don't say that I'm a hundred and whatever centimeters or meters. Nobody talks like that that I know of. Not around my area anyway. It's a mixture. Because we used to be just like the US, right? We used to use the exact same measurements. And then at some point in the past, someone thought it'd be a great idea to switch us over to metric. And I don't mind that they did. I kind of like it this way that we sort of have a blend of both. Because everywhere else in the world using metric. And when it comes to long distances, metric makes sense. You know, there's 10 centimeters in a decimeter. Decimeter. There's 100 centimeters in a meter. There's 100 meters in a kilometer. It's all even numbers. Whereas in miles, it's like how many feet are in a mile? Well, 5,280. It's random. You know, how many inches are in a foot? 12. How many feet are in a yard? Three. Am I right about that? Three feet in a yard, right? Correct me if I'm wrong down below. So I'm not saying that measurement system's not as good. I'm just saying I like both of them. When it comes to distances and time driven, I use metric. It's also easier for me to tell how long it's going to take me to go somewhere. Because I travel usually at around 100 kilometers an hour. So when I have 250 kilometers to go in a day, I can tell, oh yeah, two and a half hours, right? But if I have 250 miles left to go in a day, I travel at an average of 62 miles an hour, 60 miles an hour. Now I've got to be like, okay, 250 divided by 6. 4 and a bit. 4 hours and a bit. It's just an extra step, right? So it's easier for me anyways. But that's the reason why I use metric in my videos. I try to use both measurements so that everybody can understand what I'm talking about. So I'm trying my best here. Hopefully you guys can all sort of get what I'm trying to say. So thanks for hanging out with me today, everybody. I appreciate it. It was a long day of driving. And tomorrow will be a bit of a shorter day, but we get to go home tomorrow. And I am really looking forward to that. So I hope you join me. 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