 Good morning everybody, this is all you get to Alberta. I got my first drop in Lethbridge tomorrow. I've got my second drop in Killham, Alberta. Get these things off my trailer, they're weighing me down and I haven't set up anything in my truck yet. I just threw everything in here and we're gonna head down the road because that's life with a newborn. It's hard to get out the door first thing in the morning. Everything takes longer, but that's a good thing. It's okay, never complaining. Having a newborn is definitely one of the bigger challenges we've ever had in our lives, but it's one we wouldn't change for anything else, right? It's the best, biggest challenge ever. But it does take up a lot of my time so I didn't have time to set everything up in here right now so I threw everything in the back, I'm gonna get moving down the road and as we move towards Lethbridge, I'm gonna stop and slowly start organizing everything and putting it where it belongs because this is gonna drive me nuts. But that is what it is, let's get moving. Of course it's another windy day. I've been fighting the wind for over a week now. Last week I was fighting the wind because it was coming from the south and as we went south, we were going directly into it. So I was like, all right, well on the way home, I'll be able to put out the sails and just fly home, right? As soon as I picked up my load in Davenport, oh, the wind decided to change. Now it was coming from the north, okay. I parked the truck in the shop, I'm like, well, next week is a new week, you know? Next week the winds will have changed, winds are stronger, they're still coming out of the north past Medicine Hat or to Medicine Hat Alberta tonight. That's the goal. If we get past Medicine Hat, hey, we're overachievers. It's at least a 10 hour drive to get there to the southwest coming from the northeast now. So we might have a little bit of a tail wind and maybe I'm complaining as quickly as possible. So if that means fighting the wind, hey, that's part of the job, that's what I gotta do. Or shift in our favor. Right now we might actually have a tail south. Very rarely do they come from the east. More cold weather is coming in the next few days. Farmer weather is coming in the next few days. It was coming from the west. I think we've gotten lucky, the wind has died down. Or maybe it's at my back. It's hard, I gotta sort of look at the grass and the ditches to see which way the wind's blowing. But I'm definitely not fighting it. So that's good. At Manitoba, obviously we're headed westbound. So we're gonna make it to Medicine Hat, at least. Provided everything goes well. I have 13 hours I can drive today and that's a 10 hour drive. Been Balgoni, been Balgoni, Baloni. Almost forgot I used to call it that all the time. Catch you on, just east of Regina. Grab some fuel and maybe organize this truck a little bit here. All my stuff is still all over the place. I need to stop and put everything in its place because it stresses me out. Sess me out and everything's a mess. I'm actually anywhere near OCD. Sometimes I joke about it. Oh yeah, I'm so OCD. I like everything straight and plain. I like them to be clean. I like them to be straight. But if they're not, I can live with it. My truck's straight. I think I'm gonna go into a mental breakdown. That's what I'm trying to say. I do what I can. Moosamen, Moosamen, Moosamen, hot holes, hot holes. Careful, no swallow you whole. This is the co-op truck stop in Moosamen. If you haven't gathered, there's the Timmy's. I gotta get a coffee. Organize my truck a little bit. Take a little bit of a breather, a little bit of a break. Load myself up on some caffeine and keep on going. Oh, they put up a fence here now so that people stop backing up into that person's yard. I see. I see. Good fences make good neighbors. I don't wanna say that. Parkway up here beside Mr. Ponder. You'll see him in a sec. Uh-huh, front row. Look at this. I never get to park here. Nice. Now we can be lazy. Not have to walk so far. This is a nice place to stop. Stretch it out. Oh, gotta do up my belt. One second here, pardon me. When I'm driving, I undo my belt and my button. What? You do it too. Don't look at me like that. Don't lie to me. All you gotta do is remember to do it up before you jump out of your truck because most times I forget and I start walking in. I look down. So you can see in the back. I'm not sure if you can actually. Yeah, you can. Everything's all over the place. My sheet's not even on the bed. It's terrible. It's driving me crazy. So we're gonna get everything cleaned up, organized a little bit here. Take a little bit of a break. I am off duty right now. And then once I feel a little comfortable, we won't do it all now. We'll just get to start. This whole trip and especially today, my whole goal is to, every time I stop, make things a little bit better. So we're gonna get the bed set up now and then we're gonna go grab Tim's. We're gonna head down the road, probably stop in Balgoni next, just east of Regina. Gonna grab fuel there and then I'll, you know, maybe organize my food shelves up there a little bit. Just a little bit. Spend like 10, 15 minutes just organizing a little bit and then continue on down the road. Then by the time I get to Lethbridge, I should have everything in its place where it's supposed to be. And then after that, I need to get into the habit of every time I stop, I clean one thing. So I stop, okay, I clean the dashboard. Once the dashboard's clean, okay, go down the road. Okay, the next time I stop, okay, I'm gonna clean the doors, right? Just something small. So every time you stop, you clean something. So everything needs to rotate through everything so that everything sort of gets cleaned. You know, the next time you stop, maybe, you know, wipe down the shelves in the back. Maybe quickly vacuum the front and then the next time you stop vacuum the sleeper. All right, make sense? Try to keep things clean because I know I'm happier when things are clean and organized. It doesn't have to be clean and organized. I'll manage, I'll cope, but I'm just happier. I've noticed that. It's something I can't control. So if I just wanna have a better day, I have to do these. And even though I don't feel like cleaning, I don't feel like cleaning much. I hate it really. I hate taking time when I could be working to clean things, but it just makes me feel so much better when I do actually take the time, which sort of makes me like it because the end result is what I'm going for. All right, so believe it or not, that is more organized than there was. All right, got my cooler off there, got the bedding on. There's just nowhere to put my bags. There's very little storage in this truck. There is some, but I need to reorganize that and that's for another stop. Now we need to hit the road again. Go juice. It's go go juice time. I need some diesel, Hill. I'm at an eighth of a tank. It's a fuel price here. $1.63 nine, nope, $1.62 nine. Dollar, so don't try to fool me like that. I ain't no moron. $1.63. There is no such thing as .9 of a cent. Oh, I guess I should turn off all my cameras here. They're all still running. I'll just leave this one on because I'm talking to this one. I'm not talking to that one. This battery needs to be replaced too before I forget. Okay, okay, what's going on here? It's constantly, constantly changing batteries doing that, doing that, setting this up, setting that up. I like to have everything rolling before I roll, you know? Then I don't have to mess around with it. There we go. Fresh batteries, how do you feel about that, GoPro? Good for you. I don't need these. I don't need these. What's going on here? Where's my case? Oh, yes, I put the case down here. It's right where I left it. It's right where I left it. Put my regular lookers on so I can see the world. Oh, they're dirty. Always dirty. Why are the glasses always dirty? That is like a real struggle. Forever and ever for the rest of my life. Unless I get that crazy laser eye surgery. You know, my mom got that surgery. She used to have glasses most of her life. She got that Lasik surgery or the eye surgery. Now she doesn't need glasses. It's amazing. Amazing what they can do, right? And fix your eyeballs. I just, I don't like the idea of them messing around with my eyeballs. I only got two of them. And I want to keep them both. Makes me nervous. But she did it and she was fine and she turned out better. Her eyesight turned out better. And she turned out better. Everything came, everything was better. I don't know. I don't know. Have any of you had that eye surgery so that you don't need glasses anymore? Cause you know, the great thing about these lenses is that you never have to clean them. They clean themselves. Wouldn't that be awesome if we could get like eyeglasses that would clean themselves? Like, you know, with little like automatic wipers or something. Wouldn't that be cool? Wouldn't that be ridiculous? So you're walking along the wipers on your glasses. Oh yeah. You get a lot of attention. That's for sure. I don't know if it's the right attention but you'd have attention. All right, let's get out there. Let's get out there. Not supposed to park there, Panner. Panner, Panner. Panner, Panner. Not supposed to park there. You are not supposed to park there. There's a whole parking lot of empty parking spots, my friend. A whole parking lot. Probably about 50 empty parking spots. That's not a parking spot. Oh well. Not my problem. Let's get back out there. We filled up with 674 liters. 178 US gallons. Costs me about $1,047 conduct money. Probably about $800 or $700 US money. That got me here from, where did I fill up? I filled up at the Lovs in Valley, Nebraska. So we went all the way to Davenport, picked up this load and came all the way up through Winnipeg or past Winnipeg. It's about going on highway 46 and then at the roundabout take the first exit. Karen, you have to stop talking over me. Seriously, I'm gonna throw you right out the window. I don't care what HR says. I'll throw a woman out the window. Okay, so it got us all the way here at 1,544 kilometers, about 1,000 miles. At 100 meters, turn right on highway 46 and then at the roundabout take the first exit. You see, that was progress, Karen. Wait your turn to talk. Thank you. We're making progress. I like that. Getting better. For some reason, this traffic light is a four-way stop now, which confuses me. At the roundabout take the first exit in 300 meters. It looks like somebody dragged their trailer right over that, here's our two lanes here. I don't know. Someone dragged their trailer over the light pole there and knocked it over. They haven't fixed it yet. Wonder who did that? Anybody know what happened there? At the roundabout take the first exit. That was close, Karen. That was close. I'll forgive that one. Don't swear at me. This is a family channel, just per 100 kilometers approximately. So we didn't do too good, and I was also in a hurry to get back last week. Living are pretty hard and that always hits the pocketbook when you get to the pumps next. But it was worth it because I got to get home and hold my baby boy. Every extra minute counts, right? See how far we get. We're getting up, Mike. Like I said before, we're at least gonna get to Medicine Hat, Alberta. We'll see how I feel. Maybe we'll go further. Gotta be in Lethbridge tomorrow, as early as possible. Before we hit Alberta. Alberta is about another hour or two down the road. Medicine Hat is maybe another hour. I don't think it's three hours from here, is it? I totally forget. I'm gonna have to check the map. Well, it's a couple of hours from here yet. So I've got a couple more hours to go. I'm just stopping here to stretch my legs a little bit. Let old blue rest, let myself rest. Just doing some organizing. Just listening to the hum of the tires of all the trucks fly by here. I'm at the ESSO truck stop on the west side of town. And of course I'll walk out to stand closer to the highway to listen to the trucks go by. And of course now there's no trucks, no one on the highway. There's someone coming there, but that's not a big truck. That's how it is, right? Here we go. I just had to walk back to my truck a little bit and then they all come. There we go. Let's listen. Beautiful sounds of the night. Okay, now we need to get going. Now I'm happy. Got my fix. Just a short little ways to go yet. So let's keep going. I'm pretty sure we can easily make it to Medicine Hat. Oh, we made it. Medicine Hat, Alberta. Line J. I saw some parking spots available on the drive past here on my way up here to the driveway. Even though all of these guys are parked all along here making it seem like the parking lot must be completely packed, right? Now these guys are just the guys that didn't want to back into a parking spot. Or they couldn't because they got pikes at these double trailers. They can't exactly back into a normal parking spot. There should be special truck stops for them. But that I guess that would be a huge expense, you know. All those nice spots along the side are taken up. So we're gonna have to actually back ourselves into one of these back here. I don't need fuel right now. So I'll just thread the needle here nice and slow through the pumps of these spots back here. I'm straight. I had to readjust myself. My first attempt, I got in to this parking spot. I had to back into this parking spot between these two trailers. First attempt slipped it right in there. That wasn't the problem. The problem was after I was in here I came and looked at my parking though and I was crooked. I still look a little bit crooked. I thought I fixed it. What is going on here? Does that look straight to you? I mean, I'm just gonna go ahead and say it's straight enough. I mean it may not be straight as an arrow, but it's like 12 or one in the morning. Maybe it's two. I don't really know what time it is. It's late. I don't really know what's going on. I know I'm in medicine hat and that I'm tired in that diesel fuel is $1.41 a sign. Alberta always has the cheapest fuel because Alberta knows how to do it right. If we all just copied Alberta, things would be a lot better. But hey, you wouldn't know what's better if you didn't have something that was better, right? If it was all the same, well, that's all the same. That doesn't make any sense. I'm tired. Come a little closer here. End of the day. So thanks for hanging out with me today, everybody. Thanks for tuning in. You know the drill. Hit that like button if you do like my videos. I appreciate it. It helps me with the algorithm. Leave me a comment down below. Whatever's on your mind helps me again with the algorithm. And if the algorithm thinks that a lot of people or sees that a lot of people are engaging with my content, it automatically shares it with more new people. So that's one easy and free way to help me out if you do like my videos. I do appreciate that very much. I'm tired. I'm gonna hop back there into the bed and I'm gonna get under the covers and I'm gonna be sleeping before my head hits the pillow. I promise. But don't worry. I stayed awake until I was parked safely and straight. I'm pretty sure I'm straight. Unless my eyes are crooked, I'm straight. I'll talk to you guys tomorrow.