 Good morning everybody. We're in Watertown, South Dakota. We're at Stone's Truck Stop. It's a pretty big one. I haven't gone inside yet, but it looks like there's quite a bit to do in there. We got old blue here. Just turned her over getting her warmed up, getting the blood moving. We've got this nice corner spot here, sort of like a country, country lot almost. Got some trees, some forest. Delivering this lumber today. I'm gonna get this off my trailer, and then I have a reload in Davenport, Iowa that's taking me back home. As soon as old blue is ready to go, we'll be on the road. Raining. I just started raining as I was talking to you out there. The joys of wearing glasses. Glasses and rain do not go together. For those of you who've been following me for, I guess, more than a year. I only got my glasses about a year ago. Up until then, I never wore glasses. My eyes aren't that bad. Like, I still don't need my glasses. It just sharpens everything. Turns everything from, you know, HD into 4K, or from 720 into 4K, or I don't know. But keeping these things clean, that has been, that has been a challenge. For those of you who don't wear glasses and are getting glasses soon, it is a constant struggle, constant. Who knew? When you take them away from the eyeglasses shop, or where you buy them and you first put them on, they will never have that same razzle-dazzle. They will never have that same clarity. You take them home and the first speck of dust that gets on them is only the first of millions and billions and trillions. It never ends. And then eventually they start getting scratched, and you're so careful. You don't know how they got so scratched, and I have like multiple different like levels of cloths to clean them. I have the cloths like that just to, you know, lightly get the water droplets off them. And then there's another microfiber that I use to clear the dust off for them. And there's another microfiber that you got to use to get that like grease, because you get grease off your face onto the glasses. You got to get that, that off there too. Then there's all these different products you can use to spray on there. There's these like little wet nappies, wet naps that you use to clean them and sterilize them. It's a whole ordeal. Glasses, I don't mind them. I kind of like seeing everything in like 4k. So it's, it's alright. You get used to them. You get used to them after a while. But the first time when I put them on I was like, whoa, that made me dizzy and like, well, it made me nauseous for a while. It seemed like whenever I'd move my head this way, everything would warp. And for some reason, now it doesn't do that anymore. It is what it is. Okay, let's get out there. I just got to get a coffee ready here. Let's go get this freight off my trailer so I can put new freight on it and go home. Let's get going. It's going to be a good day. Do a little tug test to make sure my trailer is definitely attached. I looked and it was attached, but now I tried it. It's definitely attached. This truck stop is huge. Obviously a regular like convenience store like most truck stops. All fuel cards here. Fuel cards they accept. I didn't fuel here. Obviously have owners that care about their business. I think this is the way out. I don't see any other driveway anywhere. So no one's looking at me funny or yelling at me not to go here. So here we go. So we're getting a later start this morning. That's usually how my schedule ends up. I usually drive late into the night and then start when the sun comes up or after the sun is already up. I know it's a better schedule to start before the sun is then you end earlier and you get a better parking spot. But in my region where I am here meters take the entrance to the left on In my region where I am here, there's usually plenty of parking. 80 degrees Celsius here. It's a massive facility. Empty trailer. And I've slid my fifth wheel back to my preferred position. Not quite all the way to the back, but close to the center of my axles. A little bit off center to the rear on this, but that's okay. Davenport 500 kilometers from here are 300 miles. Half a day I'm going to try to get there today yet. I want to say I'm going to make it, but I only have two hours and 44 minutes left of driving time. How does that work? Took a lot longer to get here than I thought. We better get going then. I have to load there at 11 a.m. tomorrow. And then I have to book it home. I've got to be home. Not tomorrow, but the next day by the afternoon because our dogs have important vaccine appointments or they have to go and get their annual shots, right? How did I drive that much today? I only drove what? I don't figure out what's going on here. I drove 447 kilometers today, so half a day I should have more time. Oh, there it is. Five hours and 44 minutes. Okay. My 30 minutes hadn't clicked over yet. I was at 29 minutes here. Once I stopped for my half hour break because of U.S. hours of service, then I get the rest of my 11 hours of driving. I just jumped the gun. I panicked. Where did all my time go? It didn't take me that long to get here. Did it? Okay. Five hours, 44 minutes left of driving time now. Makes more sense. Oh, I have six hours and 20 minutes left in which I can drive that time. So I have a little bit of time to go fuel up. We're going to get all the way to Davenport and hopefully find a parking spot, get loaded tomorrow, and then go home just like that. Well, I'm the only one getting fueled apparently. We're all fueled up now. I don't have to worry about being overweight to get fuel so I can fill up the tanks all the way to the top. This is Loves and Valley, Nebraska. Lots of parking spots here, but we're not staying here. We've got to go about another five hours down the road yet towards Davenport. So when I get back, I'm going to have to take the truck back to the shop to get my visor secured a little bit better. You can see I've got a one-inch strap in there. The wind is grabbing it. The wind is grabbing it and it's pulling it off the cab and it's making a sort of making this piece in there bump against my windshield because that's just pressed against my windshield. And the wind is catching it and causing it to shake too much. So I secured it more with this little one-inch strap and it fixed the problem perfectly. But I can't leave it like that. It just doesn't look right. I don't like the way it looks, but it's doing the job. Right? Can't even really towel. Right? Can you? And now that you're looking at it, of course, now you can tell. Yeah, I'll get them to adjust that as soon as I can when we get back. It just needs an extra couple of bolts. We'll see if they'll figure something out. It's too bad. I mean, I really like the way it looks. It turned out great. I love the visor. I just didn't want the visor to get damaged by the wind because South Dakota had crazy wind this morning and it kept it fluttering in the wind. I didn't want it to suddenly... That's not good. So I tried this method. Just secured it, sort of like pushing it against the windshield. Perfect. Didn't even budge. Didn't even move a little bit. So I solved the problem, but not permanently. It's on the list of things to do. All right. Let's go. Let's go. Enough chatting. Destination on the right side in 20 meters. We are pulling up to the world's largest truck stop. How do I get in here? Quick entrance. Nice big sign right there. Right in front of me. 284. Destination on the right side. Iowa 80. Truck stop. I already beat you to it. I told them where we are. But thanks. This place is awesome. And I'm guessing there should definitely be parking here for me. I might just have to wander around a little bit till we find one. This place is a trucker's paradise. No, you know what? It's not even... It's heaven. Trucker heaven. Hands down the best truck stop in the world. It's also the biggest. Or so they claim. I'm not going to dispute that claim. It's pretty big. Look at that. They got a truck inside the truck stop. You see that? Drive you right past here. Look at that. It's got all the green LEDs on it. I don't know if the camera's picking that up or not. They have a semi-truck inside the truck stop. Oh, and there's a parking spot right here too. Great. Nice. Like seriously, look at this parking spot. Look at this. That's the building right there. Like, it doesn't get any better than this. I checked. It's not even a reserve or paid spot. Nothing. It was just open right out into the driveway there. So it's nice and easy. These guys have an easy out in the morning so that they don't hit me. It's like it was meant to be. That is so awesome. Can you see that truck in there now? The camera doesn't zoom in as much as I'd like it to, but I can get a different lens for that if I want. Right up front. Like, parking does not get any better than this right at the building. I don't know exactly how many parking spots are at the world's largest truck stop here, but I'm guessing it's more than anywhere else. I'm actually going to go and grab my tarps from back here and move them up to the front of my trailer. I don't like them being all the way back here, though it's very well-lit here. I still don't like having my tarps all the way back here. Leaving my tarps in the back of the trailer. I like bringing them to the front to discourage thieves. I've never had a tarp stolen before. I've never had anything like that happen to me before. But it's at the back of my trailer. I feel like that would be a lot easier for the thieves to mess with them. And if it was right behind my cab, it's up here that I'd have to climb up on my truck, get on the trailer, at least climb up on the trailer, and I'd most likely feel that inside the truck. Now they're right behind my cab, and it'd be much harder to sneak up on here because I feel everything inside my truck.