 Good morning, my fine friends on the internet. My truck is whistling at you. You hear that? The wind is hitting it just right that my visor is whistling and it's driving me nuts. That aside, it's another new day. Yesterday we didn't film much. Today I wanna film a little more. We're in North Dakota, coming close to Grand Forks, coming southbound on Interstate 29. We're on our way to Chicago. Got to deliver pretty much right by the O'Hare International Airport in Chicago tomorrow. Sometime, first come, first serve. I'm probably gonna be there around midday. I'm a little further behind than I wanted to be, but I explained that yesterday that my sister was in an accident and I didn't wanna leave until I knew that it wasn't serious. But thank goodness, if you didn't watch yesterday's video, thank goodness that it wasn't anything too serious. She had a sprained ankle, it's cut some bruises, and it's probably pretty sore today. Very lucky considering it was a head-on collision. But anyway, today we wanna make it past Black River Falls. I'd like to stop in at a gym. I talked about this a little bit last week, right? I got a gym membership. I got a membership at Snap Fitness. I decided on Snap Fitness because for one reason, there is a location, a really new nice location in Steinback. So when I'm at home, there's a gym that I can go and make use of right there. But also, it has locations all across North America, in Canada and the United States. And my membership, Access Cart, gives me access to every single location across both countries. And a lot of gyms do this, but I found that, well, there was only two gyms in Steinback. There was Snap Fitness and there was Anytime Fitness, and there's another one that's not as big of a chain, but those are the two biggest chains that have a location in town. And Anytime Fitness, I looked at their locations around Canada and the United States, and a lot of their locations are in the heart of a residential zone, and I couldn't get my truck anywhere near any of their locations. So that didn't seem very useful to me. So I checked out the Snap Fitness locations, especially along my main routes like Western Canada and through the Midwest and the US here, and I found that most of their locations have somewhat truck access. All right, I can at least park my truck nearby within a block or two and I can just walk to the gym, right? And that works a lot better. So I'm going to try to make a point of it to stop at the gym at least three times a week. I'd like to go more than that, but I'm only gonna do strength training three times a week. And the other times I'll just do cardio, or if I'm in a hurry, I'll just spend an hour on the treadmill or on a bike or something. I don't know what I'm gonna do yet. I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm a rookie. But I have my access card with me, so there's locations nearby where I stopped in Fargo, North Dakota that I can get to. There's one in Sock Center, Minnesota, right by that Walmart that we always stop at. We'll get our groceries and then just walk across the street at the Snap Fitness location there. And they're pretty accessible and they're pretty numerous around both countries. So I'm gonna try to make a point of it every day. Often as I can anyways, to stop in and spend an hour or two, however much time I can afford, and try to create a better habit for myself and get myself a little bit healthier. See what happens. I haven't actually gone yet. I got my membership last Tuesday and I'm filming this on Thursday now, right? Yeah, no, it's Wednesday, so I got my membership on Monday, even before yesterday and I haven't had a chance to go yet. Snap Fitness in Steinbeck has a special special program or whatever for long haul truckers. It's a special discount. It's $10 less per month, but you have to sign up for 12 months. And I didn't wanna come into the 12 months just yet. And it's not that I don't wanna commit to being healthy for 12 months. It's just that I don't know how much use I'm gonna get out of this gym membership being on the road. Like I said, there's locations all around on my routes, but I don't know how often I'm actually gonna be able to get to the gym. So I'm on a month to month membership right now. I'm gonna try this for a few months, see how much use I get out of it. And if I see that I'm actually making good use of my membership, I'm gonna jump onto the long haul trucker plan and that'll save me $10 a month. So then it goes down to $42 Canadian a month, which is what, 35 bucks American or something? But every gym probably has different plans. There's a lot of truck drivers around my area. That's probably why they offer that plan for us. Yeah, it's my new little endeavor. Flee, be successful in it. I'm not planning on getting ripped or anything or making huge gains. I just wanna get healthy. And if I get ripped along the way, hey, that's a bonus. Someone hit the ditch here on the right, look at that. Whoops. Oh, they rolled. It looked like they rolled. Yikes, I hope they were okay. The scale is open here, just west of Fargo, North Dakota. We're in Minnesota here right now. And my new scale bypass system just gave me the signal here on my screen that I can bypass this open scale. It gave me the green light. This is the first time I've ever done this in my life. Let's see what happens. Scale's open, this guy's going in. But my system says I'm clear and I'm good to pass. I got the green light. Here we go. Oh, I feel so bad. I'm gonna go past it. Said that I don't need to pull in. I hope that it didn't mean like bypass in there. Like I'm close to go through there. There's the scale house on the right. Let's see if it chased me down. Nobody's running out to their vehicle. Cause they have a bypass lane in the scale, right? But if it says bypass on my screen here in my truck, I was told I'm just supposed to keep driving. Don't even pull in. Light means go. So I guess they get some kind of message inside the building there saying, hey, that guy over there, that guy in the truck, well, that's Trucker Josh, he's good. He's good, let him go. He's just gonna drive on past. I guess we'll see what happens. See if they chase me down. We're here in Roth as a Minnesota. Just pulling off the road. Gonna grab a coffee over there at the truck stop. Usually where I stop, if I'm coming through here from home, usually I'd grab a coffee when we leave like home and then I go get the truck right, hook on to the trailer. Then by the time I get here, I'm ready for coffee number two of the day. I usually only have two coffees a day. Sometimes I have three. That's where I usually get one. I think I'm gonna stop in Sock Center and try to make my way over to the snap fitness gym there. So I don't wanna stay here too long because that's gonna be my half hour break there. Turn right onto I-94 East. No, I'm gonna park. Not all the way at the back here. I don't know where this guy is. Just leaves his trailer at the truck stop. Nice tarp though. He's got a very nice brand new tarp on there. I'm gonna quickly run in and out. I have four hours and 24 minutes available to me before I have to stop for my half hour. And like I said, I wanna do that half hour in Sock Center so that I can use that to, man, there's a lot of things making noise in here. Constant dingy. Use that half hour to go to the gym. There we go. Nice truck. Nice. And so completes my first visit to the gym. In Sock Center, Minnesota, I just parked by the McDonald's here on the street where they say 70's can park. Then walked over as just the half a block away. And all I did today was 45 minutes on the treadmill on a program that's called Rolling Hills. So the incline goes up and down. So it was my first time there. Just getting used to things. Got a little bit of a blister on the bottom of my foot but that's okay. That'll heal quickly. But the next time I go there, it'll be all good. It'll turn into a nice callus. Excuse me. But yeah, for my first time going to the gym in years and years and years, and first time ever going to a gym in the United States, I feel really good about myself. Got the endorphins running. Got the blood pumping. I feel good. I feel like I did something today that made the day worthwhile. So now we got a long way to go yet. We have another six and a half hours available to us. I'd like to go as far as we can. I would take you guys into the gym with me but they have a pretty strict policy, no cameras and videoing in the gym for what I think are obvious reasons. But if you want to check out the gym I was at, it's Snap Fitness in Sock Center. Just a little guy, a little location but it has everything you need in there. Wasn't too busy and I liked it. Time to go down the road though. Apparently Black River Falls, Wisconsin got a ton of snow recently. This lot is just packed. I can't believe how many of these drivers cannot park straight when there's snow on the ground. It's alarming. So many drivers taking up two spots just cause you know, couldn't tell where the lines were and I'm not capable of you know, lining myself up with the truck beside me. So I just took up two spots. Another one. That's really annoying. Why is there so much snow here? Wisconsin, you've been holding out on me. You've been hogging all the snow. I got more at my house if you want some more. You seem to really like it.