 Good morning everybody. We're in St. Leboire, Quebec at the Irving. We're headed home. Got some tracks on my trailer that are being delivered into Obluff, Manitoba. I was hoping to grab some more freight this morning yet on my way there. That freight didn't turn out, didn't work out so we're just taking these and we're headed back home. So we'll be going through Quebec meeting up with the 11 up near Cochrane, Ontario there I believe and we're taking the 11 through Ontario. It's a pretty heavy load that I got on. I got about 40,000 pounds of freight on me so it works out better. It's shorter to go the 11 from where I am now but that highway has less hills than 17 which is the other highway which takes us through northern Ontario to Manitoba back where I'm from. So let's get out there. Home's not getting any closer, is it? We've got to get these wheels turning. I'm on the camera so there's no more showers. I'm cleaning their showers in the evening and at night so I went in there yesterday at about 11 o'clock and I was going to go and have a shower and no showers were clean. So I had a shower this morning. They start cleaning them again at 8 a.m. They're very nice showers, very clean, but they don't clean them at night. Just so you guys know. I'm putting truck stops. Correct me if I'm wrong in the comments. I believe they're based at a New Brunswick or Nova Scotia somewhere in the Maritimes. You don't see them out west though. There's no herbings out in the west. Here you got Flying Jay. You don't see Flying Jay's out here. So that's, I guess, either go one or the other. Two on the bus. Take the entrance to the left on or put West RT 116 Westmore 8L. Okay, a long day tomorrow, but I should be able to get it done. We have home at the end of this trip so that's an extra little bit of motivation. I'm going to grab a little bit of fuel here in Quebec before we head up in Ontario. I don't like doing this because fuel's so expensive in Quebec. I'm just going to grab just enough to get me into Ontario and don't get me wrong, fuel's really expensive in Ontario too. I figure out where the driveway is reversed, but fuel is cheaper, less expensive than here. I think this is the driveway here. Oh, what? I can't get in from this direction. How is this made like this? It's very expensive in Ontario and it's expensive in Quebec, but it's the most expensive in Quebec. You shouldn't buy fuel in Quebec if you don't have to. So we're only going to get what we need. The lighted route. So I just put in 195 litres, just filled up my driver's side tank. I was about 51 and a half gallons. That should get me to Cochrane, Ontario to the Petro Pass there. Fuel price for me here was $1.73. Right, is that what I wrote down? $1.73 per litre. In Ontario it's $1.64 per litre and I believe in Manitoba it's around $1.30, even cheaper. So the plan is fuel up just enough here to make sure I have more than enough to get to Cochrane, Ontario. I'll fuel up there completely and then it's a long jaunt all the way to Petro Pass at Deakin's Corner. I think that's where I'm going to fuel up next. That'll be a full fill up there. I think that's my best option to spend the least amount of money in fuel getting there. I might change my mind yet, but that's the plan for now. So remember, plan for the plan to change, but plan for the plan to also take course. Plan for everything or just be open to the plans changing. How about that? That's way easier than planning for everything. Just be open to the idea that plans will probably change. I could have fueled up at the Irving, but it was more expensive there. I just realized because I was sort of thinking in my mind yesterday that on the way home I'd go through Ottawa and take the 17 through. I took a little closer of a look at it today and realized that it's faster, shorter if I take the 11 and then go through countryside of Quebec a little bit north of Montreal. I was mentioning it yesterday or the day before that Quebec has like different shapes for their lights so that colorblind people can understand the traffic lights. These ones here, they have them sideways and the red lights, there's two of them on either side. You'll see them once we drive under them if you can't see them now. They're a little far away yet, but the red ones are squares. The yellow is a diamond and the green is a circle or in this case it's an arrow. It's still the same colors, but if you're colorblind then you gotta at least, you know, if it's a square that means stop. If it's a circle or an arrow that means go, if it's a diamond that means it's a yellow light. I think that's pretty neat. In 200 meters turn right on Boulevard d'Armand-Frappier. Quebec goes to great lengths to be different than any other province in Canada. They want to be unique in every possible way and you notice that in their architecture, in the way they even, in their farms, even go on Google Maps and go take a look at the countryside of Quebec and how they arrange their farms and their fields. Different than anywhere else. Go take a look. The traffic signs they use. And that's all intentional. Okay, Karen. I'm trying to talk here. I just finished telling you that they had shapes for lights and now these lights are all circles. So I got proven wrong in the same clip that I, I'm sorry guys. I didn't look before I got out and started talking here. One second. Grand Remus Quebec. My battery was dying in the camera anyway so I had to come back and try Grand Remus Quebec. Little truck stop here on 117. We're headed up towards Ontario. Stopped out here to check on these tracks back here. Make sure everything is steel. Good and tight. Can you believe it? Like just these six pieces here? Almost a full load. I had all this space back here. I was so hoping to put something on here. I could put up to another 11,000 pounds back here. There's just nothing available to pick up. So it is what it is. I'm gonna keep on trucking home. I should be home. I'll be home day after tomorrow. I'm filming this on a Wednesday. So all day into the night tonight yet. I have another eight and a half hours I can drive yet. I want to get into Northern Ontario. I'd like to get past campus casing to Hearst. I don't know if that's going to happen. I'd like to get to campus casing if possible. We'll see if that'll happen or not. We'll see how far we get. As far as we can today and then tomorrow will be another completely full day of 13 hours of driving. We're close to it. And then we might have a little bit left to do on the Friday morning. Get these off. My trailer early as we can Friday morning. Bring this trailer back to our yard and then I can go to my shop and go home and enjoy a good weekend at home. The IVF process is in full swing now for Brit. I'll wait till I'm at home to talk about it more with her because she can describe things a lot better than I can since it is her that is mostly affected by this whole entire thing. We've been through it once before already. I should reword that she's been through this. It's really tough on a woman's body to go through IVF. That's in vitro fertilization. So she'll need all the good thoughts, encouragement and prayers if you guys pray. Her body's got to go through quite a bit in the next little bit here. We're doing another egg retrieval. I keep saying we. You guys know what I mean though. She's doing another egg retrieval and we're seeing how many more embryos we can get. We still have one embryo in the freezer that we can use from the last time. We want to get a couple more before our bodies get too old and nature tells us that time to stop. Time to stop trying. Not going to happen. So once we get these embryos once they get fertilized then we send them off for genetic testing. And then once they get back, put them in the freezer we're hoping to get. Well, we'd be happy with just a couple more or one more even. But even if this doesn't work out, you know, we have Theo and we're very happy and thankful for what we already have. But for those of you new to the channel, we went through IVF last year. You can go through my 2022 and 2023 videos and my playlists and see all the stuff we went through. I should probably put it in its own playlist all the different. Go through my home time list that you'll see much more in my home time. That's where I put because all this happens while I'm at home, right? For the most part. So if you go through my home time vlogs, you'll be able to see everything that we went through. I gotta go through it again. You know, we've unexplained infertility. She can still obviously we have Theo. We can have kids, but the doctors can't explain why it's not happening naturally. We do everything right. We do everything we have to do and it doesn't happen naturally. So we've had to go through this process. So she's getting ready for that. She's got her first ultrasound, I believe, tomorrow, the day after I'm filming this. And things are getting underway. We're hoping that maybe by this time next year we can have two babies, two kids. We'll see what happens. Maybe we'll have two kids and be thinking about starting on the third. I don't know. We would like to have three or four. But we're just one at a time. We're very happy just having Theo. If that's all we get, that's fine too. We're a happy little family. But we'd like to keep trying for three or four if we can. We'll see what happens. Let's get back to trucking though. That's just a little bit of a sneak peek of what's going on at home since I was talking about going home. That's why I sort of went into that. Let's get back on the road. Break time's over. Buckle myself up so I don't fall out and get back out there. That was a good break yet. We took it anyway. A little two lane road up here. This is highway 117. It's a little bit of a shortcut. I didn't have to go through Ottawa this way. Like we said, like you guys were saying in the comment sections yesterday, very often they use very thin steel cables to tie the logs down. So maybe I just didn't see them. It looked like that guy didn't have them tied down either. Could just look that way, you know. I'm not a log hauler, so I don't know how that works. I don't want to judge them. You guys do you. It's a hard grind. I respect the grind they're on. This guy's next truck coming. I think he's got logs. It's hard to see when you're zipping past him and going the other way. Yeah, he's got logs. He's missing them. I must be. They must be tied down, right? Oh, here's some deer up ahead. What's the road, man? What are you doing just standing on the road? Making our way through small town Quebec. Slowly getting our way closer, getting our way closer. Slowly making our way closer to Ontario. I don't know what town this is, though. I haven't seen a sign. Oh, there's a cop right here, though. Good thing I'm not speeding. Hello, good sir. Boundary. Roundabout take the second exit of one kilometer. I want to continue on straight. I see that truck sign. It says I can continue straight, no problem. I always wish that, you know, I could be more of a tourist and not just a passerby. Just pass them through on the main road. You know, very often when it's the weather's right and time and a place to park, I often like stopping in small towns like this and just going for a walk around town. Just get my exercise in and to sort of explore a little bit because this is a kind of small town that you would never even know it's just this, right? Because if you don't have a reason to meet here like me, why would you meet here unless you live here? So these are my favorite kind of towns to go for walks through and when you go for a walk, you really see the community and you see things that you would miss even if you were riding around or on a motorcycle or riding around in the car. One thing I know about this area of Quebec, though, is they really like these roundabouts. They're on good terms with Wisconsin. I blame Wisconsin for this. Second exit. Wisconsin was the first one to adopt these roundabouts in my mind. That's the first place I noticed it. So now every time I see a roundabout, I think of Wisconsin on this road for 74 kilometers. It's still a ways away from Ontario. Yikes. It's taking a while to get out of Quebec. I just put in 556 liters. My tanks are full. It was a lot cheaper here than in Quebec. So that's why we fueled here. We fueled just enough there to get here. I still had quarter tanks when I got here to Cochrane. Over two hours left on my clock. I think I can make it to Hearst, Ontario yet. So we're going to get there and from Hearst, if the weather is good and everything just works perfect tomorrow, I might be able to get there close to my destination tomorrow night and then I can unload in the morning. That's the plan. I'm getting tired but I'm not too tired yet. I might run in there quickly into the store and grab one last coffee or something or snack just to get me through the last two hours. It's nice and quiet. I like that here in Cochrane overnight but I definitely cannot make it home from here in one day. So I want to give myself the best shot possible. I don't know if I'll make it tomorrow but I at least want to give myself the best shot. And I am just about out of hours. There's a spot at the truck stop up here. I think it's an Esso. I've always found parking here before. There's nowhere between here and Longlock so I can't go through town to find more parking because there's absolutely nothing for the next, what is it, three or four hours? Or is it two hours? It's a ways before the next town. Not a fine parking here somewhere. Truck stops just up here on the right. Hard to see where the lanes are here with the snow. All right here we are. Yeah it's an Esso.