 I think a few might be on your screen. And it has nothing to do with my dirty windshield. It's on the other side of the windshield. Hanging from the poles. Oh, I gave too much of a hint. That was too much. An empty step deck behind me right now. And we've crossed into Minnesota, USA. I gotta go down here and pick up a preloaded trailer. It feels good to be back down here again. You know, I almost forgot how much better the roads are. So we're on the way down to Thief River Falls, Minnesota. It's a couple hours south from our home base in Manitoba. Tolstoy, Manitoba into Lancaster, Minnesota. We're going down highway, what is this, 59? This is highway 75. I think it's 59 until we get to the US border then it turns to 70. I don't know. We're on the eastern edge of Minnesota here. Pardon me, the western edge of Minnesota. It's good to be back with our American friends. They've welcomed me back again. Across the road at Pembina, North Dakota into Emerson, Manitoba, because we'll be loaded then. Oh, and here's border patrol. Wait, maybe not. No, never mind, I just thought of border patrol. Go and check out what's the sugar gosh doing down here. But if you pull them over, you gotta check them out. That's you doing it. So we're here and everything has been changed around since I was here last. I haven't been here in a couple of years, but this used to all be wide open and all the flatbed trailers would be loaded over there and here. Now I see all the empty ones are here. Another one over there, I'm gonna put mine over here. And I see our loaded ones are over there. I'm guessing I'm taking one of those. I'm not too sure, but we're back in America. Everything is so much nicer. I hate to say it, I hate to say it because I like my country, I really do. But the budget down here to build infrastructure, this has had a bit higher than our budget in Manitoba. All right, we got a big province, not so many people. We kind of like it that way. We like being secluded, it's quiet. Not a lot of people around is too cold. Most people don't want to come to Manitoba. I don't blame them. And we like it the way it is now. However, with few people on a big land mass and all this empty land, we do have a lot of territory to maintain. And a lot of our taxes go into our healthcare system, which as a Canadian, I'm completely fine with. I know that it gets abused, but especially going through everything we're going through right now in the world, it's nice to know that if you need a doctor, that you can go see a doctor and you don't owe the doctor anything when you leave. All right, it's all sort of collected from us all as we live our lives. And then as you get older, it's there. But I don't want to turn this into a healthcare topic. Keyboards are firing up already. I can hear it over there, okay? Let's talk about infrastructure and roads. And the US down here spends a lot more money maintaining their roads and stuff. And it's just better built, to be honest with you. Doesn't mean that I don't like my country any less, I really do like living up there. And I don't mind the roads the way they are. You know, it could be worse, they could all be gravel. Well, then again, most of them are gravel. But all of them, even the main ones could be gravel though, it would be bad. So at least we got paved roads. This, maybe it's just cause it's a little different. I, maybe it's just all in my head, but it is nice to be down here again. I always love coming to visit the US. And I'm only allowed to visit now for work purposes and essential purposes. And I can't wait for them to open the borders up again for recreation purposes or pleasure purposes, whatever you want. I can't wait for them to open the borders again and let us just come down for a visit. For no reason at all other than to enjoy the beautiful country. I feel like we might be coming close to that, but I could be wrong, I don't know. I hope so, cause I'd love to come down here. I'd like to go down to Sturgis for bike week. That's what I'd like to do, but I don't think it's going to be open by then. That's next month already. Who knows, maybe. Look at that American air. That American asphalt. In a Canadian truck, eh? Just down here for a visit, eh? Don't mind me, I'm just picking up some snowmobiles, eh? Getting ready for the winter there. Picking these up, bringing them back. Took a little while for them to figure out which trailer for me to take. This one was most pressing for the 108 DB. So let's tire down, go get our paperwork, and make our way back to Canada. You guys down here in America have a very hot sun. You gotta do something about that. It's a problem. Got everything tied down here. Didn't have a ratchet that would meet the right spot at the back here, so I had to use a manual forewrench ratchet, or a portable, sorry, manual. I've just gotta wrap this around here. It's such a way that this extra, like this, like that, it's not gonna fly away on me. Where can I put this? I can always put it back there again. I like to have it nice and neat tucked up in here. Ah, I know. I'll go around it like this. I'll sort of pin it to this. So, no, no, no, we want it to pull it shut, not pull it open. On this side, okay, there we go. Around, oh, thanks, though. Now it's so pretty loose. Ah! Sometimes you just gotta get a little creative. That should work. Keep my eye on it. Time to go home. Time to bring these big old American machines up to Canada where they can be enjoyed. I think these are snowmobiles. Hello? Oh, no, quads. That would make a lot more sense with that ball of fire so hot in the sky right now. I was wondering, why are we bringing snowmobiles back home? No, no, no, these are summer toys. Summer toys, okay. Cool. I guess I should roll these up first. I stopped at this Senex truck stop because I miss American truck stops. That's a little one, but it's awesome. I like it. So I got my load of main machines. Open my, I just checked my straps to make sure that they were tight. I still kind of see them flappin' around a little bit by there. See, you can't crank the straps down completely like really hard on these crates because you'll break the crates. You want to strap them down tight, not too tight but not too loose. Find the sweet spot. So yes, we are headed back up to Canadian. Just a short visit. I know I'm sorry to disappoint you. You know, maybe one day we'll go on a road trip and our personal vehicles for holidays down in the US. We got friends we want to visit and, you know, we're big kids. I want to go to Disney World. So we'll end up down there again but for now, this is where we're at. Beautiful country out here. This is the Manitoba sign. We're back in Canada. Nice little short trip into the US. It does feel different. You know, it looks exactly the same and the scale's open. That's not a very nice welcome. It does feel different, you know? Even though everybody looks and sounds exactly the same, maybe it's just in my head, you know? It feels different. This feels like home. That feels like vacation. And I had a big explosion of bug guts right in front of my camera like two minutes ago too. So enjoy that. You're welcome. It's kind of rude having the scale open, you know? It's like, hey, welcome home. How fat are you? I've said that before. So I'm very nice to ask how heavy people are. Weird way of getting in here. Well, look at this. They repaved everything. That's about time. I'll compliment them on that. You remember how bumpy it was going through here? All right, hopefully they let us through. And that bug splattered right in front of you guys. Man. Told you this is real reality TV. There's a, that's life right there. Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug. I think that's how the saying goes, right? I don't think I'm going fast enough for him to keep blinking the light. Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug. In this case, you guys were the windshield. Lucky you. And this date took way longer than I thought it would. And I haven't really been dragging my feet either. It's just, there's so many more steps when you cross the border. Gotta go here, gotta stop here, gotta check in here. Gotta make sure this paperwork is done over here and that paperwork over there. That guy's brave sleeping at the scale. I would never do that. Now is this a stop sign for me? Why is it way over there? I'm gonna treat it like it's for me because I'm at the scale and there's a truck coming. That's, as long as you're on their property, they can inspect you any time they want to. I'll say that they would, maybe they'd have some common decency and wouldn't. I wouldn't be able to pass them, you know, an overambitious officer. Maybe they're having a bad day, they wanna make your day bad too. There's a big parking lot there, we'll tell you. Welcome to Morris, home of the Manitoba Stampede. It's like the Calgary Stampede, except, itty bitty. It's actually pretty cool. I haven't been there, I've always wanted to go there. The last couple of years has been canceled, obviously, but it's actually pretty fun from what I've heard. I think that looked like my boss's car. I think that was him anyway, he waved. We're back to the Canada flags up on the light posts. What was I talking about? I got distracted by the boss man driving past in his fancy car. Ah yes, the Stampede, Morris Stampede. I've been meaning to go and experience it once. I guess we'll have to do that once everything opens up. Manitoba's been a little bit behind other provinces in Canada in lifting all mandates and stuff. I know we're on the path towards that right now, so things are looking up. Alberta is ahead of us, the Saskatchewan's ahead of us. Of course, everyone's ahead of us, I mean. We're Manitoba. Can't be the first at anything. Don't want to stand out, you know? The nail that sticks out gets hammered, so we just sort of, you know, say somewhere in the middle, somewhere in the middle. I think most of Canada forgets we exist most of the time. Like talk to your average Canadian, like not me. Talk to like, if you ever find a Canadian anywhere, ask them if they know anybody from Manitoba. I can pretty much tell you they're probably gonna say, Manitoba? Nope. That's one good thing about my videos, I'm putting this on the map. Just reminding everybody, hey, that's Manitoba's right here. We still exist. You always keep flying over us, and that's fine, you can keep doing that, but just remember, we're still here. Oh, you want to race, bud? You want to race? Let me show you the power of my Peter. Show me some more power in that, bud, if you want to get past me. Come on, I'll show you what you got. I figured, yeah, he's got no governor. That's not fair. Here can go faster than my Peter. It's not my choice. It's been really nice sort of hitting the highway today, going down to Thief River and back. It's almost makes me miss the highway, the long trips, you know? Of course I missed them. I love the highway, I loved that job. I love being over the road. But, you know, I love my family more. And right now, right now I just need to be at home. No more trailer behind us. Dropped it off in the yard there where they can either get it ready for the highway driver or they might need to unload it. Park the truck. Tuck it away in my little corner back here. This is my space back here. You'll leave it alone. Peter that I'm hearing that I'm done. And we'll go home and enjoy the weekend. Got all my stuff. Until we meet again, girl. Have a good weekend. Stay out of trouble, will you? I'm inviting boys over, okay? Be good. Crazy kids. Oh, got that AC pumping. Man, you know, when you think of Canada, you probably don't think of this heat, but whoa! It's hot! I got in the last one in today. Look at that. Oh, watch out, look at that. Which reminds me, I left my time sheet in the truck and I need to mark down the time I'm leaving before I forget. Silly me, because if I don't do that, I'm going to forget. I know me. I know me well. Some might say I know me best. Some might disagree. I don't know. I leave it in my orange folder. There you are. I forget to every single day. Lookie-doke, lookie-dokey. Okay, doke. Now we can leave. And then our paperwork and everything. So a couple more things to do before we go, but we should be out of here in about 10 minutes. Well, I left my trailer here to be unloaded, but it kind of defeats the purpose when the next driver comes in and parks right beside my trailer. They have a shunt truck. They'll move it if they need to move it. Or, hey, it's not gonna get touched on Monday, probably, so. They can move it on Monday or I can move it on Monday. They'll figure it out. And look at this guy. There's a dump truck here. I thought I heard rumors that we bought a dump truck, but I don't know if this is ours or not. Look at this thing, shiny. I hope I get a drive that. Look how shiny that is. I wish my truck was that shiny. I've put in a request, but not for this one. I just put in a request for a shiny truck, but look at that. That looks fun. Are we getting into the dump truck business now? We got our fingers in every pie. We do everything. Everything. You need something hauled. We're the guys to call. We'll haul it. Okay, I'm pushing my button here. Excuse me. Excuse me, you're supposed to be open by the time I get here. Do you know who I am? Excuse me. The slowest gate ever. I need some Jeopardy music. Okay, there we go. Look at this. I'm like the last one here. There's nobody here. Even the shop's gone, gone home. Everybody's gone home. Who's Sugar Josh? Last guy here. Long day. But it was fun to go visit America again. Everything is still just as I left it, for the most part. For the most part. I miss going down there regularly. We have really nice neighbors next door. It's nice living next to them. And it's nice to go see them. But we're back up here in our home, Manitoba. And it also feels good to be home. I like it here too. We have a good region. Really good region. Anyways, I'm pretty tired. I'm gonna call it a day here. Thanks for hanging out with me today and coming all the way down to Minnesota with me. Hope you have a great weekend and I'll see you tomorrow.