 Morning everybody. It's a Thursday today when I'm filming this. That means tomorrow's Friday. Isn't that exciting? Isn't that exciting? Can't wait to get back home But we got some trucking to do before then so We're in Brainerd, Minnesota right now. I have an empty step deck trailer behind me. You don't believe me fine. I'll prove it Taking this empty step deck. We're going to Minneapolis There it is. See why would I lie to you really? We have a load waiting for us in Minneapolis. Shakopee to be a little bit more specific. That's on the southeast side of the city All right, I'll pick it up Put it on the trailer tie it down And we're gonna pull it back home and then tomorrow I'll be back home tonight So then tomorrow will be Friday. I'm gonna see if I can get one more short one in yet tomorrow and then We got a run home We got some stuff to do this next month is gonna be a little bit busy We got some exciting stuff going on and some stuff to tell you but I'm gonna wait till I'm at home So I can tell you with Brit So we got lots to do so I can't go too far this month. I'll be staying closer to home It's gonna be an exciting month. I'm good coffee just in time for the parade. That's nice Lucky us made a stop here on the way Down towards Minneapolis. I'll show you sort of where I'm at can't really see much but I mean there's a store in here and Convenience store. It looks like this used to be a grocery store, but half of it's closed down now It's just the convenience store that's here now. I've never noticed this place here I've driven past it how many times? I mean, it's not the The the greatest parking lot here, but it's a it's a parking lot if you're looking for parking I bet you there'll be parking here. Let's see. Where are we out here? Google learn me something. Where are we? We are in What what is we're on highway 10 in Minnesota north of st. Cloud, I believe It's called the marathon gas station in rice Minnesota right rice like the food rice little hidden little hidden stop and I never knew this is here and I've got ginormous coffees. So they are friends of mine. I needed a coffee so bad. Oh I guess I didn't need it so bad. I wanted it so bad I was going through town after town on my way down towards Shakopee now and Trying to find a place that had truck parking that I can pull in all I wanted was a simple coffee. It's all I wanted No one had truck parking every town you go through no truck parking no truck We're gonna keep going gotta keep going finally this place popped up But as it just came around the corner, I've never seen it before so it took a chance I said, okay, I might be getting myself into a pickle here. I'm gonna pull into this parking lot I might not get out We'll see what happens So I slowly went in I saw they had diesel pumps. I'm like, okay good good good So I just went to the diesel pumps So at least I knew I can get there right and I googled it and I looked down from above And I saw that there was parking on the south side of the buildings Took a risk and I won So I I parked here right inside and like man, I hope they got good coffee I hope they got good coffee because this is kind of like a Mom pot truck stop very nice. I mean nice people in there as well that own it Doing very well, but I've yet to try their coffee. Here we go Was it worth it? Oh, well, it's hot. That's good. It'll do It'll do it's not knock your socks off, but it's also not terrible. So it's Right in there with Tim Hortons Let's get back on the road As long as it's coffee Let's get everything going here again. Let's get this beast started up. Let's wind her up There you are my friend. There you are Go do some more trucking So I have 1112 two and a half hours to get to my shipper And I'm only about an hour and a half away, but they said if I get there early, there's a good chance I'll get loaded early Camping anymore. You know what I mean People are getting crazy in a park here, but I don't think so. I don't want that trailer falling on me parking beside that I have a chance We're in Alexandria, Minnesota. A lot has happened since I talked to you last Another parking spot here and I'll fill you in. It's not a much better spot So I stopped here for a shower. I've picked up my load in Shakopee. I've been go go go go Again, just like every day lately. I haven't had a nice relaxing just go with the flow day in a while It's just been We need to move we need to be there yesterday. Let's go So I got my new freight. I got the shingles on my trailer. I'm going to show you right a ways But first I've got to get a shower here in Alexandria. I fueled up in st. Cloud, Minnesota Uh for the cheapest fuel along my route today But the parking lot there is a mess. I don't like parking there if I don't have to so We just grabbed our fuel and we came down the road about an hour towards Alexandria And I see this guy beside me. He's going in for a shower too Better reserve one quick before they're all booked up I can reserve it right from on my phone in the app I don't know how many there'll be available here, but Just grabbing a shower and then we're gonna head on down the road I'm hoping to get into canada tonight yet. If not very close. I don't have to get into canada But I am cleared to cross if I can that's amazing. If not We'll do it tomorrow. Gotta deliver these shingles tomorrow anyways Uh, this app is taking forever to load. Come on, man Come on Well, while that's doing that I'm gonna have to put my clear lookers on so that I can see what I'm doing when I go inside there Oh, here we go. Here we go. All right. Let me reserve a shower One guest in line Okay, well I'm second in line then The shower reserved I'm in line for shower. So it'll let me know when it's ready I'm not sure if I can make this app actually ding and like notify me like hey your shower is ready I always have to keep refreshing it and checking it to see if my shower is ready or just go inside and wait there Because once your shower is ready and it assigns you a shower You have 10 minutes to get in there before it just gives the shower to the next person in line So if you miss it and you're not paying attention You lose your shower and you lose your shower credit. Then you got to go talk to the manager and ask them if they can Give you your shower back because you didn't actually use it and I don't know you're at the good mercies of whoever's in charge here then So I haven't missed one yet, but I've gotten pretty close. I think I'm gonna actually grab myself I'm gonna go wait inside there so that I'm ready when it's available It'll only be a few minutes if I'm second in line. I'll show you my trailer here first so that you know what I'm hauling and Then I'll go inside. How about that? Sound fair? So here we are one two three well, it's two four six eight ten twelve thirteen skids sitting at seventy nine thousand three hundred and eighty pounds gross My max is obviously eighty thousand pounds So we're very close to max weights for here in the u.s. Once we get into canada We're not even close to our limits, but That's what's taking us home today At least the trailer's not empty, right? I'm confusing Karen my gps just a little bit I've gone off course Turn left on 45th street south and then take the entrance to the right and do 180 meters. No, I'm gonna turn right We're in west fargo north dakota We're going to blow beacon I need to get this truck washed This is my only chance to do it. Well, it's gonna happen I still haven't gone to this space aliens restaurant It's been like what 12 15 12 years that I've been wanting to go there This petro stopping center where the blue beacon is I don't stop here that often The only time I'm ever really here is just for a quick truck wash at the blue beacon and then I'm out of here And I don't stay in fargo for night that often because I'm so close to home. I'm usually I'd usually just go home, right? One of these days A lot of these days we'll get in there See what it's all about. I didn't even take a peak 200 meters turn right on 49th straight south I didn't even take a peak to see if there was a lineup at blue beacon I don't care either way. I've got to get the truck washed lineup or not I see from here. There's one truck in one of the bays I doubt there'll be that long of a lineup today, but you never know I've always got to make the entrances to these blue beacons all twisty and whiny and Look at these big rocks here because they don't want you to drag your trailer over their grass But you definitely don't want to drag your trailer over those rocks Or drive over one that mess up your truck Okay, it looks like we got one truck in line in both bays Okay, that's not too bad. It won't take us too long. It takes about 15 minutes per truck We'll be out of here probably like a half hour That always feels good to have a clean truck And this is going to bother me until I replace it much better much better. All right. I was super bad I went and got a coffee and they had maple walnut fudge right by the till How dare they They tempt me like that. I can't say no. Well, we've had enough delays today. Well, not delays We've had enough stops. We've had to shower now. We've had the truck wash. We also stopped the fuel It's time to go the rest of the way Let's go. It feels so good to be in a clean truck again. It feels so good. How do I get out of here? This way? Yeah, it's this way, right? Yeah, this way. I'm going this way for distractions I'm in La Talle Manitoba just over the border I ran out of hours So this is where we'll sleep tonight I'm trying to be quiet because These trucks and these drivers are sleeping here in their trucks. I don't want to wake them up It's a beautiful night out here Is that a full moon? Very close to it if it's not Perfect temperature And that's the highway right back there That truck that drove down that way is headed southbound So that would be northbound and this 75 highway At the border about 10 minutes that way Turns into interstate 29 and that highway goes all the way down to Kansas City It's a beautiful sound of the tires Let's listen That's where I get to fall asleep to tonight I'm a lucky man. So like I was saying this is La Talle It's spelt La Talleur French name La Talle First town into Manitoba, Canada from North Dakota USA Fun fact for you right over here is an arena Right beside it is a house. It's a newly built house. There used to be an old house there That had just been redone. It had just been re renovated inside and out And I was thinking about buying it in 2014 Long time ago long before I met Britt It was listed for $80,000 That's why I was thinking about buying it. It's super cheap and it's right on the main route That I go past all the time So I thought it'd be perfect truck parking right here, right? You can literally park right beside my house, but I ended up not buying it And someone else bought it tore it down and built a new house So there must have been something wrong with the structure of the house And it's probably why it was so cheap Good thing I didn't buy it I can't really show you here because it's dark If I remember first thing in the morning when I wake up I'll be able to show you then But there's a cement pad right behind that house And it's a cement pad that would be perfect to build a shop on You could fit a truck and trailer on it by the looks of it All you got to do is put the walls up in the roof and you have a shop And that little cement pad belongs to the town here And I had actually contacted the town to see if I could buy that land as well with that cement pad So that I could pull in here with my truck and trailer and back it right into a nice shop Which would be in my backyard of my house But man life took a different turn. I didn't I didn't go that route And I'm very very glad I didn't because obviously there's something wrong with the house The people who did end up buying it just tore down even though it was just fully renovated It looked beautiful only $80,000. This was in 2014. So even back then it was super cheap Nowadays that sounds Housing prices have gone off the charts. It sounds ridiculous, right? And 2014 is not even that long ago It's 2023 right now and I'm filming this if you're watching this in the future So anyway, I'm very glad I didn't buy it Because if I had bought it, there's a very good chance I would not have met my wife Who lived in Winnipeg at the time? I had moved out to a town called Marchand, which is East of Steinback. Steinback, La Broca in Marchand is way out in the bush So I still live quite a ways away from Winnipeg when I met Britt But uh Maybe I still would have met her You know because we we met online Maybe we'll share the story of our our meeting if we haven't already I mean we could go into depth of how we met in our our early dating days and stuff uh You know we could do that in another video maybe but And yeah, I would have still met her but I had bought a house out there Anyways, and that's where I lived when I met Britt And then she moved in with me And then we got married and then we bought our like ranch style house on our big property Which is right next door out in the Marchand area there too out in the bush Beautiful big property. We ended up selling that place And uh moving into Steinback And uh That's where we're at currently right now as I'm filming this Hopefully we won't be there for too much longer I have a feeling we won't be Because we're uh, we've outgrown that house very quickly. We moved into a small house Which was a budget house we can afford life there It's practically free if you think what compared to other people's mortgages is cheaper than rent living in this tiny little house We've been able to save up money really quickly pay off all of our debts We don't have any debt other than our small mortgage I'm trying to think Yeah Like very very little debt anyways personal debt other than the mortgage And uh, we've been able to pay that all off and be able to live very very comfortably And we're fortunate, but we can't stay in this little house forever. We're gonna have to move very soon Very soon And uh, because we want to grow our family. We have Theo with us now, which is I miss him every minute that I'm not with him I can't wait to see him again Uh, he's amazing He's six months old now over six months old And we're already trying for another one We want to have at least another two maybe another three a family of six would be nice That's that's sort of what our our goals are We want to see if we can get to four kids yet. We did start having kids a little later Like we had Theo when I was 35 already So I can keep going till i'm older. Uh, my uh Clock in my body is a little bit different than a woman's body because they're different So we'll see how long we have But that's that's what we're shooting for but even if we just have the one That's enough too, but if we get more even better, that's awesome We'll cross that bridge when we come to it, but we will need a bigger host for that definitely So we'll be talking about that in the near future probably this weekend when I get home We're gonna address that and tell you our plans and What the future may hold for us I know he's enough blabbering here. Uh, thanks for hanging out with me today. It was a fun day. It was a long day I filled up my whole clock so We'll stay here for 10 hours I I'm gonna save 10. I only have to stop for eight legally because I'm on the canadian side of the border I can stop for eight and then go but if I stop for only eight I'm not going to be legal to cross back into the us and I might do another run down to thief river falls tomorrow afternoon I don't know maybe not but I want to be able to have the legality to do that So in order for me to be legal to cross into the us later today later tomorrow, I guess it's today now Uh, I have to have a full 10 consecutive hours stopped right here So I'm gonna I'm just gonna do that and I got all my bases covered. It's all good All right, everybody, you know the drill. Please stay safe out there Look twice and look again before you cross the street Please when you're out there drive safe. I mean it. Please drive safe I hope all of you get home safe to your family I'll see you tomorrow