 morning everybody. We've got that lumber off the trailer and we're ready to head to Nebraska. Our pickup is in a town called Lindsay, Nebraska and that's taking us all the way over to Prince Edward Island in eastern Canada. So let's get going. I got a can of brew coffee this morning. I'm here in Brainerd. I'm gonna give it a shot with a garbage can soon. Empty washer fluid jug down there and some cardboard from a case of water. It'll be a full day, well not a full day, but it'll be all day today will be empty. We're loading tomorrow morning in Lindsay, Nebraska. It's 750 kilometers, seven and a half hours of driving to get there. There's a wait me. So here we go. Chasing those dollars wherever they show up. I come down from Canada. I can deliver into the US, right? But the load I take back to Canada has to cut, has to go directly back to Canada. So I can't pick up a load here in Minnesota and bring it to Nebraska and then pick up the load in Nebraska going back to Canada. I'm not allowed to do that. That's called interstating. To put simply, that would be taking an American job, right? They have American truckers to do that stuff. I have to take freight that's going directly back to Canada. So my load is going back to Prince Edward Island and is waiting in Nebraska so I can drive there to pick it up. And then we go straight directly back to our destination. That's how it works. The same thing for Americans when they deliver up into Canada. You know, if you deliver into Winnipeg, Saskatoon, you're going to have to go empty from Winnipeg to Saskatoon to pick up your reload. You're not allowed to pick up freight in Winnipeg and delivered into Saskatoon to fill up that gap. You know what I mean? Because that's the same thing as before, just the other way. That's a Canadian job to do. So if you're an American, you have to pick and you pick up freight in Canada. It has to be a load that's going directly back to the United States. It's the way the laws work and all the treaties and trade and whatever else they've signed. I think it works pretty good. Sometimes we have multiple drops in the U.S., like sometimes we have up to nine drops. You know, my first drop could be in Iowa and then I could have five drops, you know, through like Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and then ending off in Florida. That's all one load. That's okay. But then I have to pick up a reload in Florida or wherever. Or if I'm in Florida for my last drop and my reload is only in, let's say, Texas. Hopefully I'd have a reload closer than that. But if the only one was in Texas, I'd have to drive empty all the way to Texas, pick it up, then go right back to Canada. I'm an international driver. I go cross-border, back and forth between Canada and the United States. Seeing the differences in the countries and the similarities. I've decided to travel down Minnesota Highway 23. We're sort of cutting across Minnesota through the countryside towards Sioux Falls in South Dakota. It's coming up to Spicer, Minnesota. How many detours the 23 have. We've already gone through two kind of lengthy detours the entire highway. Different sections, so there was big, long detours that kind of confused me a little bit. But good thing that they had proper signage on the side of the road that guided me around it. I appreciate that when they go through the extra effort of making the road signs clear and visible and easy to understand. Because sometimes you go through places and they have a detour. Sort of like that detour back in by Shakopee the other day. Remember that? And you have no idea what's going on. There's no warning ahead of time that there's a detour coming, but that the road is closed up ahead. So when you get there, you're like, Oh, the road is closed. Okay. And then there's no signs of which way trucks should go. And then you sort of follow traffic until you can find somewhere to pull over, right? And find out which direction to take. But sometimes these detours lead through non-truck roads. So you can't just trust them when they're like, Yeah, this road's closed. Just go that way. Well, is that way a truck route? Because this was a truck route. That doesn't look like a truck route. So they did a good job here. They sent us around. It wasn't in an urban area either. It's through the countryside. So I got to see some Minnesota farmland. Nice little scenic detour. I'm about three hours away from Sioux Falls. Like I was telling you earlier, I want to grab some fuel there. I was thinking of grabbing a shower there as well. But I'm going to look at the time when I get there. And I might head all the way down to Lindsey, Nebraska, just straight there. I have to make sure that I'm there in time so that in the morning I can wake up and get loaded without, you know, running into problems with my my logs, play it by ear. We'll just grab fuel and we'll see how we're feeling then. You'll have to look up what truck stops are around Lindsey and check out a few of my apps. See if there's a good place to park nearby or if I can park right at the customer or at the shipper. Sorry. I don't even know what I'm loading yet. I have no idea. No one's told me. All I've been told is instructions. I've given the address on the business. I guess I can Google the business to see what kind of products they make. I just haven't done that yet. Because to be honest with you, I don't really care. I don't care what they're going to put on my trailer. As long as it's legal and I can tie it down and it's not overweight. Doesn't matter to me at all. I will put anything on the trailer that you want to put on there. I'll bring it to where it needs to be. Slide right on West 60th Street North. Make sure I get close to the shipper. Turn right in 100-putting meters. Okay Karen, I know where I'm going. You need to get close to the shipper tonight. Close to the Canadian border either at from Detroit into Windsor or from Port Huron into Sarnia. I might take the Sarnia road because it's a little bit of a quieter border crossing. We'll see. Fuel pumps are busy right now. Approaching destination in 300 meters on the left side. I see it. I see it. Entrance, my friend. The exit is on the other side for this exact reason. 186 kilometers, we have three hours of driving. I've got to figure out if there's any truck stops down there. I use the app Trucker Path. There's so many ads Trucker Path. I know you've messaged me before if you're watching right now. Your ads are getting out of control. Every time I open the app I want to quickly find a truck stop. I'm like bam, bam, bam. Slap with three ads. Hey, would you like this? Hey, would you like that? Hey, would you? No, I want to know where I can park. Search for places. God, again! Lindsay, Nebraska. Type that in and it'll show me all the truck stops around that area. Stops in town, eh? The closest one might be over in the next town over. Exit would be right here on the right and that's definitely just parking spots. Oh wait, no, maybe it is over there right where that car came from. So there's quite a few parking spots available back here yet. Crammed up at the front and there's so much. Exit, I knew it. I remember this place. I've been here many times. I just haven't been here in a little while. Price here, our fleet price was $3.82 US per gallon. 36.6 per liter. Readers, turn right on. West 60th Street North. A few truck stops on my way as we get closer. There's a loves in Norfolk, Nebraska. A lot of truck stops on the way a little bit closer than that yet. So we'll be able to find somewhere to park, I'm sure. It's off the beaten path. Oh, look at this truck off on the left. Look at the plumes. It's tall. This truck stop is called Club 81. We're on US Highway 81, which makes sense. I'm gonna stop here for the night. We're just down the road from our shipper. This place isn't 24-hour, but it is a lit parking lot. It's not the brightest lot, but I feel comfortable parking here anyway. So in the morning, we'll go down the street, pick up our load, and maybe we'll come back here and check this place out. See what kind of coffee they got, because this will be on my way back east. So the load we're picking up tomorrow goes to Prince Edward Island. Nice big long trip. It should be a four-day trip or a four-day journey to get there from here. Tomorrow we won't quite make it back to Canada, but we'll be in Michigan somewhere tomorrow night. The following day we'll cross either at Detroit into Windsor or pour here on into Sarnia. I haven't decided yet. Figure that out as we go, and then go up in Ontario. Oh, excuse me. Pardon me. Probably get through Toronto, maybe even into Quebec, and the next day we'll go through the rest of Quebec up and around the top of Maine in Canada into New Brunswick. We'll go down, down, down, down New Brunswick, and then the next day we'll go across Confederation Bridge into Prince Edward Island and deliver there, and then turn around, head back into Quebec where my reload is, and find a place to park somewhere and get a reset. I'm thinking I might park. I know this great truck stop in New Brunswick. It's in the northern part of New Brunswick there. I haven't been there in years, but I do remember it's a really nice place to stop. I forget where it is though. It's in the northern part right before you get to Quebec. A little about an hour from the Quebec border up there. We'll figure that out then. I'll stop for a reset somewhere and then we'll go get reloaded in Quebec. As far as I know, we're headed back home from there, so we'll be going through Ottawa probably. We'll say hello to our federal government as we go past there. Give them a special salute, and then through Northern Ontario, all the way back home. We've got quite a bit of miles ahead of us yet. We've got 4,000 kilometers approximately to PEI, and then 4,000 kilometers back. I've got, I think, about 8,000 kilometers between 8,000 and 10,000 kilometers in front of me, which is 5,000 to 6,000 miles, right? 5,000 to 6,500 miles. I'm pretty tired, as you can tell. I'm going to go right back there and go to sleep and put this all together tomorrow after I get loaded. That's my first priority. I have to get there on time. I want to be early, get loaded. We'll come back here, and then we'll assess the situation and figure out what's happening next. Thanks for joining me today, everybody. I know it was kind of just a cruising day. We've been empty all day, nothing on the trailer, so this load's gonna make up for it going to PEI, and let's hope it's a good trip. I don't usually take these long ones anymore, but every once in a while, we'll go visit our friends out east and see what they're doing. Take care, everyone. Stay safe, be safe, and drive safe. Talk to you.