 we had to make a quick pit stop at the Flying J in St. Agath, because me being the genius that I am, as if I need to tell you, me being the genius that I am left, my necklace that I got from my wife for Christmas, which is real gold, left it in the shower at the truck stop. And somebody here, because we live in friendly Manitoba, somebody here found it in there and brought it up to the front desk so that I could pick it up when I went past next time. And I called in today because I was freaking out, couldn't find it, couldn't find it. I thought I was in the truck and it wasn't in the truck, got back in the truck, couldn't find it. I was freaking out. I told Brett I can't find it. I shouldn't have told her, but I told her. And I called the last place I could remember staying at, which was here. We had a shower here last Thursday, right? And yeah, I had left it hanging in the bathroom. And someone was nice enough to return it up to the main fuel desk. And all the employees were honest enough not to take it home. And today I called here and sure enough it was here. I came, picked it up and one of the most sentimental pieces of jewelry I've ever owned, I don't own much jewelry. I own both. You can see about as much as I own right in this shot right here. My two most sentimental pieces right here. That was practically like leaving my wedding ring somewhere, dodged a bullet there. The only mistake I made was I told my wife, I know she's not gonna trust me with fancy things anymore. But, dodged that bullet, so let's get out of here. We're on our way down to Urbana, Illinois. Urbana, Urbana, Urbana, Urbana, Urbana, Urbana, U-R-B-A-N-A, something like that. Bringing them this lift truck, what are you gonna call it? Oversize forklift, I don't know. Down there for them. And then from there, I've got a reload. Taking me to Ontario, I believe. I don't have all the details on it yet, so I can't really confirm that, but I was told I will be going to Ontario for another load of that magnificent 63,000 pound steel load. Those loads are really heavy for my truck. I really don't, very fancy, very shiny quarters attached to those. My quarters, I'll collect as many as I can. Didn't have those quarters, I can tell you what, I wouldn't pull them. Some of them even got a loonie. You remember last week when we were going down to North Dakota, and we had to go around that detour because of the floodwaters, and I told you the crest was making its way north into Canada. Here it is. The water has made it across the border. A nice, neighborly gift from the Americans. Thank you, thank you very much. It's getting pretty high here. Look at this bridge. It's like touching the bottom of the bridge here already on, not on the other side, but on this side. The other side's got a newer, higher bridge. Wow, it's like driving right across the water almost. It keeps getting higher and higher, so. It's crazy to see. I wonder how these farmers are feeling here. Watching all their fields just get buried in water every year, every year. This year's a little worse than some years, but it's not the worst we've seen in my lifetime. So we're in Southern Manitoba here. We're about 15 minutes from the American border on Highway 75. So we're here in North Dakota now, and the water is still pretty high here too. I think we're losing our lane up ahead here. That could be because water is coming onto the road in the right lane. Coming over. Oh, it wants to slow down to 45, okay. Lots of water. I think he's looking at the other direction, but. Might be looking at me too. You stay. Stay. Don't need to be chasing me down. Look at all the water here. Yikes. Absolutely nuts. Look at that. That building's totally under water. Well, I guess not totally under water, but. You know what I mean. It's like a sea. The river that flooded is that way. It goes all the way out here, and all this water is headed up north to Canada. This is a little bit more than usual. We don't usually get flooded this bad every year, but we do get something like this every year. I mean, this isn't a surprise. The people who live in Southern Manitoba, especially Southeast Manitoba around where we live, and up here along the western edge and eastern edge where Minnesota and North Dakota meet, they're used to this. Oh, they want to go right down to 25 miles an hour. Really? It's a little intense, a little overkill, wouldn't you think? That's 40 kilometers an hour. On a 75-mile-an-hour freeway? Okay. You're the boss. 25-mile-an-hour. Oh, look at this. It's coming through here, that's why. Wow, they got like these big, long sandbags here holding the water back. Oh, at least they left the interstate open this time. It's just, it goes like a mile that way, at least. That's what we get for having snowstorms in April. Okay? No more snowstorms in April. It's not good, it does this. Eye is still pretty bright, and we still got another two months to go to the longest day of the year. Love this season. About to turn east onto Interstate 94. My regular route. We've all been here through my vlogs, countless times. It's been a good day of driving. So far, the truck has been running great. Fuel economy has been fantastic because we have a wind that's pushing us down south out of Canada. It's a pretty strong wind too, and we're just, we got our sails out, and we're just sailing. It's coming a little bit from the west too, so as we turn east onto the Eye 94, we're also going to be able to catch some of that wind in our sails and have it push us into Minnesota towards Wisconsin. Kind of tired back on the road. I don't like having such a hard day, my first day back, but we gotta do what we gotta do, right? I'd love to go another two hours. Two hours, Karen. Two kilometers, we'll pull in for the night. What do you think? Or is it two kilometers, two hours? I don't even know what I'm talking about anymore. Karen, you take the wheel. I'm going to bed. So this is a very popular route for Canadian drivers who's coming from the Midwest, Northern Midwest, or the Eastern US, to Western Canada, comes through here. Now sometimes they continue going on down Eye 94. 500 meters. Out towards US 52. Eye 94, West and then came to the left and 270 meters. That's where I usually go. If I'm not going to Manitoba, if I'm not going home, I'll usually cross through into Saskatchewan at portal. But this intersection here, pretty much anybody who's going to Western Canada, from the US, the either Northern Midwest or the East comes through here. Eye 94, East. And so far, I mean, so good. We're not going to be going through Chicago on this trip, though my next load will be taking me into Ontario. So we'll probably be going down the I-80 through Southern Chicago, you know. They still haven't fixed that bridge connection. Through Northern Indiana on the tollway there, the crossroads of America. And we'll see what traffic's like. I'm sure it's quite a bit less than what we're used to in that area, which has been great. You know, this as terrible as this whole pandemic has been. You know, the silver lining to this dark cloud is that my fuel prices are way down, which is helping us out a lot. And traffic is way down, which is obviously helping us out a lot as well. Can you lock this road for 258 kilometers? Well, we're at the big chief truck stop. We went a little bit further than our usual Roth's say. I wanted a change of scenery. I'm just past Fergus Falls here. Eh, I'm gonna pull in here for the night. I'm tired, man, I'm tired. You have arrived at your destination. On the right side, big chief truck stop. Big chief truck stop. Thanks for letting me hang out here for a bit, chief. Going to find a parking spot and hit the sack, as they say. They got really good pastries in here by the way, I stop here often. Delicious donuts. But I warn you, they're addicting. Oh, we got going on. It looks pretty full here. Let's turn my lights off so I'm not blinding people. Oh, Mr. Volvo there took my parking spot. How dare you. How dare, maybe there's one spot behind him, yeah. Aha, there's still a spot behind him. Right behind him there. Oh, ow, ow, ow, ow, easy. Easy. Take it easy there, bud. Oh, look at that Peterbilt over there. It's got like blue lights on it. That's fancy, see it? Here, there it is, see? Very fancy. I'm gonna turn myself around here. Give me 40 acres and I'll turn this rig around and then I'll go to bed. Then I'll go to bed. How about that? I'm gonna park in front of this Mr. Kenworth guy. Oh, I just closed my window, shoot. Oh, I had to force myself to put the phone down. Oh, it won't stop dingin' at me now. Man, I got distracted on Facebook and I've been sittin' here for 30 minutes. I haven't even gotten out of my seat yet. All right, well, bed is calling me and there's a toothbrush and toothpaste on my bed. Well, there's a hint. At least I won't forget. Oh, let's get up. Oh, oops, sorry. Banged you on my sunglasses. Oh my, my tired. All right, I'm an old man apparently. Okay, getting older every day. Woo, isn't it fun? Oh, I shouldn't complain yet because I got a long way to go and a lot more older to get. Oh, is it life, grand? But it is special because it is life. It's a gift. Even the aching sore days. But I'm feeling great, I'm feeling great. So other than just being a little sore did some heavy lifting yesterday. So just feel like I like went to the gym. Feeling strong. The pain is a good pain, it's a good pain. So thanks for hanging out with me today. Time for me to go to bed and time for you to go to bed or go back to work or go back to what you were doing. Go back to your quarantine life. I hope you guys are all keeping busy and not going crazy. But everything's going fine for us so far. Britt is off work, she's at home because of her asthma. From what I've heard, the Canadian Emergency Relief Fund has been released to all the people who need it and they've made it pretty easy to access, so that's good. So we're all taking care of up here in the Great White North and we're very thankful for that. Just be very careful when you do get that because it is taxable income. So growing up with a mom as an accountant, you gotta, I think of these things. This is all taxable when they send you your $2,000 every month for the next four months. That's all taxable, okay? You're gonna have to pay income tax on that. You're gonna have to pay all your regular taxes that will come off your paycheck. So treat it as if a paycheck came to you without any of those deductions taken off, right? Make sure you put a lot of it away. And there is also the fine print. Make sure you read the fine print. They call it the SERB, right? SERF, Canadian Emergency Relief Fund. You know what I'm talking about. The $2,000 the government's sending everybody to get us through this pandemic. Just be very careful. Read the fine print. I don't qualify for it because I'm still essentially working. So if I were to apply for it, they would send me the money. But here's the catch. They're going to find out next time I file my taxes that I was working and making more than $1,000 a month during this month. So I don't qualify for it. So they would send me the money now just to get everybody taken care of. But next tax season, I would have to pay every cent of that back. We don't have pennies anymore. So every nickel would have to go back to the government. And if I spend it, well, I'm going to have to come up with it somewhere, right? So be very careful when applying for the Canadian Emergency Relief Fund during this COVID-19 pandemic because you may have to give it back if you end up not qualifying, all right? Feels like easy money now. They're going to come back and get you. I have a feeling that next tax season is going to be quite the gong show. And a lot of people are going to owe the government money because they took the money now and didn't qualify for it and they're going to have to pay it back next tax season. So just be careful, read all the fine print. And that's all I have to say about that. I figured I'd just throw that in there because growing up with my mom, she's been an accountant for 40 years now. She owns her own business and she's really good at it. She's really good at it. And you always got to remember the tax man's going to come knocking. Nothing is free, okay? If you really need it, it's there for you. But if you don't qualify for it and you take it, they're going to come for you. So we'll see you tomorrow, everybody. Thanks for joining me today. More trucking tomorrow. We got another 1,100 kilometers to go yet or about 700 miles. We're not going to make it all the way there tomorrow but we'll make it close. Should be fun. I'll see you then. Thanks for hanging out. Don't forget to subscribe, eh? Click on my face there and go and subscribe to my channel. We're like 2,000 away from 100,000. We're so close. Help me get there. Let's do this together.