 on another adventure. On our way to the truck we have a trailer waiting for us that is going to Calgary, Alberta. It's a little over a day's drive from here. I've got to be there tomorrow at 1 p.m. and it's about 24 hours comfortably to get there so it'll be a little rushed this trip. I waited a little bit longer than I probably should have to get going but I'm still on time. I'm still on schedule. I just won't have as much of time to stop for long extended coffee breaks on the way there. We'll just have to give her a little bit. That's okay. We'll get there. It's not like we got to chain anything down or strap it down or tarp it right. Now we're back on van division. All we got to do is go hook up and go. Man that is so nice. It is so nice. I have a whole new appreciation for it. It's just you hook up and go. That's it. That's it and then you don't got to worry about it all the way till you get to Calgary. You don't got to stop and make sure anything's falling off. You don't got to tighten the chains, tighten the straps. You don't got to make sure your tarp isn't ripping and stuff on the corners. Now you just you just go. You just hook on and you just go. You just send it all the way there and when you get there all you do is you open the doors. So enough about that. We got to get going as soon as we can here. The office wants to see me before I head out. I'm guessing to give me special paperwork or instructions. I believe I'm meeting another driver there in Calgary and I've got to help him with the unloading process because it's not as simple as just swinging open our doors. We have multi-level trailers and we deliver a whole bunch of stuff that requires a little bit of muscle and work and effort to deliver. It's not like I'm doing nothing. I'm not just a door swinger, but I'm mostly just a door swinger now. Yeah. That's okay. I'm shameless. Just a door swinger. Steering wheel holder. It's a nice break. Once I get there I have to help the other guy I believe and unload both our trailers which is cool with me. That's fine. And we'll see what happens from there. I don't know. I booked off two weekends from now. So in two weeks my dad is coming down. My father-in-law is coming down. My buddy Rick's coming down. Obviously my wife's going to be there. My mom's coming down and we're all going to install that back door in our house. Take out that big window and install a back door. It's a little bit of a job. My dad has a long history in carpentry. My father-in-law has some history in that as well I believe. So they know what they're doing and then me and Rick or the young guys we're the muscle. We'll just pick up and move everything. That should be fun. So then we'll have our ceiling done on our veranda and the back door done. That's two projects done early summer. It's not even summer yet. And we're off. We're on the Winnipeg freeway. It has stop lights but it's free to drive on it. For me anyways I mean someone's obviously paying fuel tax so I guess it's not even free to drive on. Winnipeg they really love their traffic lights and now I'm stuck in the left lane because I haven't been able to get over to the right lane. I shouldn't be in this lane with the stop light. But here we are living the dream right. So we've got to get around Winnipeg here and get on the trans-Canada westbound our way towards Calgary delivering to a brand new golf course. West side of Calgary. Looks like it's going to be a pretty fancy place when it's all finished up. These guys like those guys I hate being one of them that's in the left lane at the stop light. There's a little heads up a little tip from Trucker Josh. You ready? You don't get many of these. When there's a stop light if at all possible stay in the right hand lane if you're a truck. Leave the left hand lane for the cars and pickups to get past you. They all got places to be also and they're faster. They got better acceleration. So let them get all passed and then we're about passing people for that. But you should stop in the right lane at a stop light if at all possible. Sometimes as you saw there it just doesn't work out. Gotta do your best. This guy's got a nice tractor on the back of his trailer here. I need a new lawn tractor. I was hoping to get one next summer. Guess we'll see. We'll see what happens. It's my life motto lately. We'll see what happens. Well we're not going anywhere without some coffee. It seems like everybody else has got the same idea here or what? Convenience store in Oak Bluff. Not just a convenience store. There's a Timmy's in there. Incognito. I don't know how many people know that. They don't have very many signs advertising that there's a Timmy's here. They just set up these new pumps here. Looks like they're still working on them. Looks like they just repaved this lot which is super nice. Too bad people still parked just all over the place. Just wherever. Pull in. Put her in park and go inside. This is Canada. It's the way we do things. Apparently. It's not the way I do things. I'm gonna back into a spot here beside this guy who actually knows how to park. Saddled up, buckled in, locked in so we won't fall up. The doors are closed on the trailer. I've got my Timmy's. Got a BLT sandwich and a honey curler donut. I got my weasel. It's gonna be a good day. I did this truck for about three weeks now and I've been living in it for like two and a half weeks on our last trip there. Still reeks like cigarette smoke in here. I must have gotten used to it last trip because I thought that it was all gone. I guess I just was in here for two and a half weeks. I guess I didn't smell it as bad. But I got back into the truck just now today. Loading my stuff. I'm getting ready for this trip and all that smell was back. Oh man. And I looked closer on the walls and the slaper of the of this truck. There's an orange film, like an oily film on all of the walls. I gotta wipe down all of the walls in this truck now. They must have been a chain smoker or something. Like smoking two cigarettes at once, you know? I don't know how you smoke that much inside a confined space. Like this truck isn't that old. Like to put a yellow film. Remember I told you I had to wipe this windshield down because there's like a thick oily film on the windshield? A yellow film? And this dashboard too? The whole sleeper's got it also. This whole truck is caked in like cigarette tar. This is like a $200,000 truck and you're chain smoking in it. That's just... Oh it makes me mad, you know? Like I said, I got nothing against smokers. But if it's your own vehicle, your own your own house, I understand. It's your stuff. Who cares, right? But I get into this truck and I gotta wipe down. Like they did offer to have it detailed and I said I'll just detail it myself. So some of this is on me. I could have had someone else do this for me. But I didn't realize how bad it was gonna be. I don't know how much you have to smoke to leave a film on everything like that. But it's gotta be quite a bit and it's all the way in the back and on the roof in the back. I'm so glad. I'm so glad I haven't developed that habit. I'm so glad. If you have, hey that's up to you. But imagine what your lungs look like, right? If I'm like wiping off like a thick layer of tar and orange and yellow filth off the dashboard and off all the walls of this truck, imagine what their lungs must look like. I got some good friends of mine. My cousins that I hang out with all the time smoke. I don't care. That's what they want to do. This doesn't bother me if they have a smoke while we're hanging out. And if they want to go outside and have a smoke, I'll usually go outside with them to hang out with them, keep them company while they have their smoke, right? That part doesn't bother me. It's just I'm just, it's a habit I don't understand. But I also acknowledge I don't have to understand everything in this world. Well, this is the first trip across the west in this truck. She's doing good. Smooth as glass. Just sailing. Like a sailboat just gliding across the smooth waters. Pretty much, pretty much. Some of you have asked what this thing dangling over here is. I think it's supposed to be the mic for the onboard telephone system. And it's supposed to be stuck somewhere, but obviously the sticky stuff on the one side came off. I'll have to fix that sometime. Keep forgetting about that. Saw a couple of you ask about that. We're here in Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada. We're going past Whitewood here on the way west. Look at all the bugs in the windshield, eh? And it's not even evening yet. You just wait till the sun starts to go down. This is nothing yet. There's nothing. We can try to wipe this off if we want to. Not enough washer fluid in the world for these prairies. Doesn't do nothing. We'll have to stop and actually squeegee them off. But 10 minutes later, they'll be back. So I have 971 kilometers left to go to Calgary. That's about 10 hours of driving. So about 600 miles. Somewhere in there. We're making as far as we can tonight yet. We got eight hours and 22 minutes available to us on our clock. We did get a reset. I was home for four days actually. I was only planning on being home for two, but the way things worked out, we were home for an extra two days which worked out really nice for me. Because I got a lot of work done at home. I got that veranda ceiling done. For the most part, you saw it there, right? I have to finish the venting on the outside edge yet. But I got the big part done and it took a lot longer than I thought it would. A lot longer. Took four days. I thought it would take a day and a half. Took four days. But I am also an amateur and I didn't know exactly what materials I was going to need. So I had to run into town twice to go get new materials and exchange some that I bought that were wrong. But we got it done. Now we're rolling on. We'll be busy for the rest of the month. Like I said, got to deliver this load to some fancy golf course west of Calgary. And from there, I believe I'm heading up to Edmonton. And we have a load there waiting for us. Not sure where it's going. Not sure where it's going. But I'll pull it wherever it needs to go. So we're directly above the western edge of North Dakota. And a couple of hours will have passed on to Northeastern Montana. If you're wondering where we are according to the US map. Just above North Dakota, Montana. Just on the Canadian side, eh? Nice and green up here now though. Look at this. Golf courses are open. Businesses are all opening back up. Pretty much back to normal for the most part. As normal as it's going to get, I think. Which is good. I hope things start getting busier again. They'll probably be a little while before they allow concerts and stuff like that. But that is what it is. You all know the story. You're all living it. We're all living the dream right now is the Whitewood Auction Livestock sales. You want to buy some cows? That's where you go. I'm going to pull in in Balcony. Balcony Baloney. That's about... Oh, actually that's quite a ways up yet. Another couple of hours. We'll see what happens. We'll see what happens. See, this highway was built along that railway there. That railway is what joined Canada, our west coast and our east coast. Way back in the day under Sir John A. McDonald, the founding father of Canada. He united the country coast to coast with that railroad right there. Very important railroad. And now we got a highway parallel to it. Very important highway too. I mean how would this golf course and Calgary get their stuff if we didn't have this highway here? I mean you could send it by rail but that would probably take two weeks. Whereas I can get it there in a day. This thing, this highway makes it a lot better. This guy went, ooh, nice W9. Very nice. Very, you guys want to see it? Very nice. He waved at me, I didn't wave back. My bad. Too distracted by your nice Kenworth. Guy's hauling a lot of weight, I bet. Guy in front of you is turning buddy. There you go, he's on. Gotta get back over here. My Algoni Baloney. You win your fancy roundabouts that everyone hates. But hey, you want to be all fancy. Turn right in 100 meters. I know Karen, I know, we're not. I'm off course, I know. Turn right. No, we're not gonna, I am turning right. You want me to go over to the field over there? Look at this poor truck stop here. It got killed by the Flying J over there. Used to be a little truck stop there, a little local. Big corporation came in and crushed it to the ground and curb stomped it. Poor guys. This road for 22 kilometers. I like the Flying J. I do, I just, I do know, I know the consequence is that we gotta sacrifice a lot of small business for it. And that's the sad part. And I know I'm one of those guys that loves Walmart. I'm one of the, I'm part of the pack. I know I'm just a sheep. But I don't get why they get to be open, but everyone else has to stay closed. It's too dangerous to go anywhere else. It's too dangerous to be on the beach. Go over there and stand in line at Walmart. It's safer there. I don't get that. I don't know. Continue on this road for six kilometers. I'm glad this whole thing is just about over. At least here anyway. It was never really bad here on the Prairies. We never really got the worst of it. Nice truck. Very nice. Very nice, how much? So we're gonna go park in a parking spot and then I gotta wash this windshield off before we leave. I'm not getting fuel here though. Or maybe I should. I'm under a half a tank now. You know what? Yeah, let's just go get fuel. We're here. Let's do it.