 Barnays Barney Barney's Barney's or Barney's restaurant and bar Also truck stop Letali a Manitoba, so I was able to wash some of my laundry yesterday. That was nice and now we got two full days to get us down to Mississippi Hopefully avoiding all the chaos in the city's on the way there. I'm going around the cities for the most part I think or at least through them during the day. I don't know. Let's see Let's hope and pray for the best and for our safety and we're headed on down to Corinth, Mississippi and across the border and Keep our head down mind our own business Bring this freight down there. Somebody needs somebody needs it. So they're counting on me to bring it there. So Let's go All right, we got the shades on everybody Locked and loaded Let's go over 1,000 kilometers behind me today, so Close to 650 miles We'll see what happens This little town is about 15 minutes from the US border Crossing at Pembina, North Dakota find ourselves in Like I just said find ourselves in the the great state of North Turn right in 130 meters My route is taking me I believe through Minneapolis later today I'm probably gonna go around it. I feel like being around that city right now more than the foreseeable future Turn right on nine road north highway 201 and then keep to the right in 90 meters Seeing as what Their city council has decided to do there. I don't really feel safe in that city So I'll probably be avoiding it for the foreseeable future for a while I don't know what's going on there We'll just have to wait and find out Tremly windy day out here again. We got a strong wind coming out of the southeast Trying to push me over to the left. I gotta be careful because I got a whole grip of motorcycles We're getting close to Alexandria here. Yeah, three more miles. This is exit 97 I'm gonna pull in there. I gotta do my half hour. I'm sitting at two hours 12 minutes left on my eight I'm just stopping for my half hour and that should give me about another six hours to get down the road Not sure where we're gonna stop tonight yet. Hopefully we can find a safe place Don't need fuel yet, but man this wind is just insane today It's so strong it's coming out of the southeast so it should bring some warm weather up north for us, but Making this truck work pretty hard Here we go exit 100 Yikes that wind noise is so so loud, right? It's just not letting up either. It's been like this all the way down from Canada I'm guessing once we get on to the I-35 south of Minneapolis It'll probably calm down a little bit. It's a little more sheltered there We're still sort of up here on the eastern plains I can get these bugs off my windshield again. That'll be nice. Take a nice little breather. That's a little break Use these vehicles I could have gone. I could have gone. I should have gone. This is a nice car though. I wanted to see this car Look at this thing coming from the right Ready for it Nice That is what a first generation Camaro Oh, of course now there's more traffic coming Ah Truman Show Alexandria, I always say it sounds like a royal name Alexandria princess Alexandria I wonder if it was named after a princess Probably not probably not. This is America Where's the pumps? This is one of those uh flying jays that was obviously something else at one point It's not like your typical flying jay or pilot Closer to Minneapolis All the bugs came back already. I apologize And I've been getting passed by lots and lots of motorcycle groups All sorts of motorcycle groups The only ones I recognize were Hell's Angels all the other ones. They're wearing patches, but I don't I don't know what That is I'm not familiar. I'm not you know with every gang or motorcycle club or group. They're not all gangs, but I'm not familiar with them all but there is just hundreds Of motorcycles that have been passing me headed toward the city You know what they're up to round on 494 Okay, I wasn't going to see if I regret this decision or not I'm kind of strapped for time and as long as there's nobody blocking the highway in Minneapolis This this saves me so much time from going around through the small towns And I've only got a certain amount of hours left on my clock to get down to mississippi and if I go around I'm not gonna make it And I'll be really late for my delivery so I can't I can't I don't have the time So, uh We'll see we'll see what happens We'll see what happens. I don't think that they would block the 494. Would they You know, I wouldn't put anything past these morons out there jumping in front cars and stuff I don't know what what they're doing, but I don't want any part of it. You go do your thing just Please stay out of my way. I gotta I got places to be All right, I'm just I just want to sneak through. Okay So I see you're minding my own business here But not too nervous. I mean, what are they gonna do? I'm not gonna cause trouble and provoke anything I mean if doors comes the worst, I guess I'm just parking on the highway, but three weeks Three weeks to come down here. I thought for sure, you know three weeks sit a little calm down by then Silly me. It's election year Nothing's gonna calm down from november. All right. So well, we gotta keep moving. So here we go Bring it on minneapolis I I'm just trying to sneak through. Okay. I'm mind my own business South of minneapolis Safely past the city I've got Two hours and 18 minutes available to me and I'm gonna use of every single one that I can Still don't know where I'm gonna stop. I probably just probably looked that up But I'm not too worried about finding parking in this area of the country If I was on the east coast I'd be a little more concerned But out here There I'll be parking. We'll find parking somewhere. Look at this. We're coming into iowa A bunch of corn out here. There's a parking spots for me You know, all the farmers, I guess have seeded. Well, we're down here in Iowa in canada All of the or manitoba. I should say all the fields are just starting to grow now I already told him Karen. She never listens to me. It's always complaining In in manitoba all the fields have just started to grow The green has just started to pop out of the ground on the fields and I'm guessing here They probably seeded a lot earlier because they're further south got a little bit warmer climate here spring pops around the corner a little sooner Oh, yeah, it looks like their crops are Well on their way already So the Iowa corn is on the way. Don't you worry. They got your food Iowa is also known for their John Deere, right? Isn't this where John Deere has their headquarters? Makes sense Iowa I wonder if you get a discount on John Deere products if you're from Iowa What if you don't drive at John Deere and you live in Iowa? Do your neighbors shun you? I would just assume I mean, I would just assume that if you're from Iowa, you're going to drive a deer And if you don't that that'd be like blasphemy, right? Sort of like being from canada and getting your coffee from starbucks blasphemy Starbucks is tar in a cup Overpriced tar in a cup tell you what And we'll see where we end up looks like Karen's gonna tell us to turn in about 42 kilometers or 30 miles or so somewhere in there And we're gonna take what is that the 380 i380? Down through cedar falls and stuff by evans evansville. Is that what it's called? I don't know. I don't know It's been a good ride though. I like this area. It's nice and peaceful quiet lots of parking Tomorrow night is going to be a little harder to find parking because we'll be down in uh, Mississippi or close to it or maybe Tennessee. We'll see where we end up and we do in a reset down there I'm going to try to find a safe spot. I got to go right through Memphis So I definitely do not want to stop in Memphis for my reset I want to stop as far away from any city as I can I guess we'll just see what happens. I got to get a t-shirt made with that See what happens. Let's see what happens. Who knows? Every day is an adventure man. All right me and my army of dead bugs Have arrived to our final resting place for tonight We're at Casey's general store here in Iowa You have arrived at your destination on the left side center point travel plaza Center point travel plaza very nice. Thanks Karen Now to go find a parking lot Calm down Karen. Let me sleep first. We'll do that tomorrow Any parking spots here? Or is this a driveway? Ha I know there's spots here. I saw it from the highway plenty of parking Just got to find the perfect spot, you know I want to blind people with my hid headlights Look at this truck off to the right. That's a custom sleeper. It's pretty cool Very nice What do you think weasel got any wise weasel advice got some wise weasel words for us I got a lot of weasel words, man. I'm a weasel filled with weasel words You look tired right now Anything Speak now or forever hold your peace We're here. Uh found a good parking spot all by ourselves. No neighbors Nice very nice and we should be able to get to our destination Tomorrow in one shot if I have enough hours We'll have just barely enough if everything goes right So hopefully we don't run into any delays or problems on the way. Hopefully it goes smooth through or around st Louis. That's the only city tomorrow. I'm a little concerned about I'll have my eyes on the news and uh Try to pay attention to see if anything's going down that I should be worried about But anyways, it's been fun It was a good full day today a really good full day and uh went a lot faster with you guys here So thanks for keeping me occupied Appreciate it. Hope you tune in tomorrow. It's gonna be another new day. I mean, we'll get some good footage We'll be officially in the south tomorrow Mississippi northern mississippi. I don't think we're gonna see any palm trees yet, but you never know You never know the chances are there There's a chance we could see a palm tree tomorrow You know how much I love palm trees, don't you? You know, we remember this Britain I got matching uh tattoos on our honeymoon On the gulf coast It's not finished yet. I got a I want to add weasel in there somehow and uh Finch it up yet, but uh, I've been lacking time and money and now with this whole uh Boogeyman virus that uh has been blown way out of proportion going everywhere. Everything was closed down anyway So I didn't have the money for it. Anyway, so Here we are living the dream Just trucking along. Thanks for hanging out. I already said that We'll see you tomorrow