 Good morning everybody. We are back in the truck. I feel accomplished. I changed my cruise button, my set and resume button that you click to make the idle go up and down or just cruise in general. The button broke. So I ordered a new button off of Amazon and it came in the mail. And I replaced it myself. I thought it would be a lot more difficult. This could be all complicated. Turns out these dashboards come apart pretty easily here in the truck. You just take a piece off, take a few screws out, take the whole panel out, unplug the other one, literally just plug in the new one, put everything back together, done. Here I thought that I was going to need like a master's degree in mechanics and technicianing, technicianing. I feel very good about myself. It's a good start to the day. So today we're picking up a trailer at our yard that's already loaded for me. I got to tie it down. It's pretty light load. That is going to Mississauga. You thought I was going to say Mississippi. We're going to go to Mississauga. That is Toronto. For those of you who don't know what Mississauga is, it's okay. It's Toronto. So we're going through Northern Ontario. It's going to be two long days of driving. I have to be there on Monday. I'm starting this video and starting this trip on a Saturday. I'm going to be working through the weekend. My logs are reset. So I've got plenty of hours. I'm good to go. It's 2,000 kilometers or 1,300 miles approximately. We've got to go, go, go. I've got to get there in two days. And it's through Northern Ontario. So it's going to be very, hopefully we don't hit any bad weather. I've checked the forecast. We might hit a little bit of light snow, but nothing too extravagant. But we'll see. My choke is dirty. I'm starting to feel like winter out here again. What is this? What is this? Is it still winter now? I thought it was springtime. I'm confused. I don't know what's going on. I do know. I'm going to Mississauga, Ontario, with this. Nice light load. I'm going to bring this to the good people out there. Somebody needs it. They're counting on me. We better get going. Are you ready to go on Ontario, boy? Let's say that. This is good people in Ontario. Okay. I got some family on Ontario too. Time to go. We're going to be driving into the night. Dad was here too, grabbing his trailer. He's already gone. He's on van division, so it doesn't take him quite as long. He hooks on and goes. Well, hooks on, pre-trip, make sure the trailer's good. The truck is good. Then he can go. But for me, I've got to do all that, plus time I load down. It took me a little while longer than him to get out of here. He's headed south, I believe, and I'm headed east, so we couldn't run together anyway. Otherwise, that would have been fun. I haven't been able to run with my dad, like convoy in a long time. Being in two different divisions, it's not that often that we even cross paths. He does dry van, so their routes are totally different than mine, and their customers are totally different than mine. I did dry vans for six years before I got on to flatbeds. Now I've been doing this for six and a half years, almost six years. He will be driving late. We're going to stop by Deakins Corner Petro Pass yet for fuel. That is the cheapest fuel on my route. Manitoba's got some cheap juice if you compare it with other Canadian provinces right now. 23 kilometers left to go, and we'll still be in Ontario and complete it here. I believe they're twinning it all the way to Canora, going to make it so much easier. Hopefully they just keep going from there, right? Get it four-lane divided all the way to Toronto and all the way to Ottawa. Eventually, I mean, we should be able to get it done in about 500 years, that's what I'm thinking. It's not bad. It's a pretty good pace. This daughter was married to the Grand Master of the Order. He had access, as all grandmasters do, to ancient knowledge of the Knights Templar, including their maps. Columbus knew there was something on the other side of the Atlantic. He didn't know what, but he knew there was land and treasure. He knew this because the Knights Templar had maps of the New World for centuries. One of these was the Piriris map, and you know this famous map. It shows the New World and Antarctica hundreds of years before they were rediscovered. Piriris, by the way, was a cartographer from Istanbul, which... A long way to go. So a lot of this vlog today, I guess, will be at night, which will be kind of difficult because there's not a lot to see at night here. There's not a lot to see during the day. Never mind when you... There's no light. We're warning in advance. I'll do what I can to show you where we're at and where we're traveling through here, for those of you who have never gone through here before, for you to be traveling through here, unless you're coming up here to do some fishing. All right, but this is... If you're American, you'd be going around the Great Lakes, which are to the south of me to the right. You'd be going around the south side through Wisconsin, Michigan, around by New York, Minnesota and stuff. You wouldn't come up around this way. That's why I like to show a little bit more of the scenery and stuff where I'm going through when I come up here because these are highways that you, the majority of my audience, probably never driven down. Just off my right, sorry, is Lake of the Woods, which borders Minnesota on the south shore. We're going to be going over the north side of the Great Lakes though, later today or later tonight. I'm trying to get somewhere between Marathon, Ontario and Wawa, Ontario. If I can make it all the way to Wawa, that's great. I think there's a town in there called White Earth as well. Maybe I'll stop there. There's a rest area just past Marathon. So I have a few options for later tonight, but it'll be the middle of the night. So hopefully I'll be able to find a spot to pull her in and call it a night. I don't have much time to wait, so we'll be stopping for the shortest amount of time I legally have to and continuing on in the morning. I have a crane appointment, 8 a.m. on Monday. They don't want to be late for the crane. They really don't like that. That can get pretty expensive because they'll charge you, charge you by the hour that they've got to wait there. Laser focused. I made it to Dryton, which is pretty much just the tip of the iceberg for our drive time today and the sun's already gone down. Still got some light out here, but that'll be gone in about a half hour. I don't mind night driving in Northern Ontario because there's less people on the road, less people slowing me down. The only thing you gotta watch out for are the moose. I haven't seen a moose in a long time. Knock on wood, let's hope it stays that way. But I used to come through here and see moose almost every single trip. I don't know where they all went or if they just got smart. Had like a community moose meeting and all came at the conclusion like, let's actually see this long pathway. Let's stay off the human pathway. Let's hope it stays that way because you do gotta watch out for them, especially at night. You can be, areas of this road are pretty remote and you hit a moose, you're disabled in your vehicle in the middle of the road at night. If it smashes out your headlights on the front, well you got no lights warning people up front. Truck obviously won't run, you know, so it's, it can be a big problem pretty quick. That's why it's a good idea to run during the day, but there are benefits to running at night too. Tonight we have no choice, we gotta keep going. I got an appointment to make. I've got to get at least another seven hours behind me today. At least eight hours would be preferable. We're in Shania, Ontario, just past Thunder Bay. Driven about 700 kilometers today, it's about eight hours or so on these roads. We're not going to bed yet. We're just stopping in for a little snack. I'm getting kind of snacky. We can find inside and then head back out there. The weather's been good, so that's, that's a good thing. At the rest area. This isn't the typical place I would usually stop. This place is a mess right now, looks like there's a vehicle that got burnt out over here. You can go check it out. Look at this. This isn't the typical place I would stop because I don't believe there's any 24-hour facilities behind here anywhere where I could go if my truck stops running, right? So it's a little bit of a risk that I don't like taking, but it's the risk we're going to take tonight. I need to find somewhere to stop and this is the place that I found. Look at this. Is this showing up in the video? This is like a completely burnt out vehicle that I saw here, well, the week or two ago when I was here. They still haven't cleaned it up. Oh, it smells like burning too. It smells like burnt, burnt stuff. Yikes. So I found a place to park. There's a wide load right here. I just want to walk back here and make sure that people can still get in here and get around me. I like this trailer that I got. I believe it's a rental. It's got a few more chicken lights than usual. I think it looks nice. So I'm going to leave my LEDs on for now so that I can see where I'm going when I go around here. I believe there's plenty of space. Did I get my trailer over as far as I could? Well, I guess I could go a little bit further to the side here. Where does this end off way over here? Oh, I can go all the way to here. Get myself out of the way a little bit more. That's the driveway there. Okay. Well, there is quite a bit of space to get in here. I just don't want people dragging their trailers over mine, you know. I love these lights. It's awesome. Got myself moved over just a little bit further. Plenty of space for people to get through here now. I'm not too worried. So, turn right. Karen has to be included. That is my GPS, Karen. Sorry I didn't introduce you today. Talks a lot. Likes to boss me around. So thanks for hanging out with me as we travel through Northern Ontario. I have about 1,100 kilometers left to do tomorrow, 650 miles or so. We should be able to get that done. Hope you tune in. Guys, don't forget to subscribe. I make new videos pretty much every day. You can go back through my playlists and see videos way, way back all the way to 2011. I encourage you to do so. You hit that like button. 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I try to keep them within a few days, no more than a week behind when they actually happen just so you guys can sort of keep up with where I'm at. How things are going. I'm very tired though as you can tell. I'm trying to make sense of what I'm saying here and it's tough. I need to go to bed. I don't really like parking here where I don't have a warm place to go in. That's not like me to do it all. But sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do. At least I have really good cell signal. So if anything goes wrong, I can get help here pretty quickly. And we're just outside of town so it's not like I'm way out in the middle of nowhere. Marathon is just down the road. So help would be close by if I needed it. See you tomorrow. I think I said that three times now.