 Good morning everybody. We're a little ways down the road already. We're in West Virginia. We just entered West Virginia from Pennsylvania. Just stopped here for a coffee. Been driving for a couple of hours today already, or two hours. And I want to get as far down towards Gainesville, uh not Gainesville, but Waynesboro, Georgia as I can. Gonna have a reset there. We're gonna be parked for tomorrow. And I want to be at a decent truck stop where I can do my laundry and uh be comfortable, have a shower, you know, and motorcycle. This is like a blind corner here. This is kind of dangerous. Slowly edge forward, edge forward. Okay, we're good. So we'll get ourselves back on to Interstate 79 South. We'll be on our way. We are apparently leaving the interstate. What is that, US-19? Here in West Virginia? What a beautiful state. What a beautiful, isn't there a song about it? Country road. Take me home. West Virginia. Something, something. There's a song about a sky night. Beautiful state. I love the rolling hills. Pardon me, mountains. I keep forgetting. I keep forgetting. They're mountains. The West Virginia mountains, but they're all green. No snow on top. Beautiful place. And the way they build their civilization, like right into like the sides of the mountains and like all over on top of them and everything, it's just incredible. This would be a fun state to go through the back country on a motorcycle, on a motorcycle tour, I think. If I had unlimited time and money, I'd take, I'd take a month off and just go wandering around. I got friends that live in Virginia just over here, the real Virginia, the other Virginia. It's not East Virginia, it's just Virginia. I got friends who live in the, and this is Moses and Colleen. I'll probably be going pretty close by their house on this trip. I think they're on holidays right now though. Good for them. They just had their second baby. The last time we hung out with them both in person was before they even had their first. That's how long it's been. That's a crime. We need to come and hang out with them. I've been meaning, well we've been meaning to come down for years now, but every year it seems something comes up. Like the other year it was, our last year it was our roof. That came up. We couldn't come down. And this year it's the virus couldn't come down and visit. And we're also trying to plan to trip over to the other side of the pond as well to Ireland, UK, and Europe. And we're beginning to realize that we can't do everything we want to, but time flies so quickly. See what happens. But this is one beautiful area of the United States. Uh-oh, there go the cops. Someone's getting a spanking. Go get them boys! There it says easy pass, speed limit fine. Beautiful day today just, but gorgeous. Protecting people we know. Back of his truck. Backup lights or something. We're coming up to Charlotte, North Carolina. We're gonna go through the city and a little bit south of that and there's a flying J just south of the city in South Carolina. We're going to be stopping for our reset. I believe it's a flying J. I hope I'll find a parking spot there. I mean it's going to be about 9.15, 9.30. I hope that uh, I hope that there's parking there for us. There's supposed to be 140 parking spots but that's, it could all be taken by 9.30. A little bit worried about that. So we'll just have to cross our fingers and hope for the best. Check it out. And if there's parking I'm just going to stay there. Tomorrow we'll sit there. I'm going to do my laundry movies or something. I guess if we get there in 20 minutes we'll be shut down 70 hour a week ahead of us. I'm just going to say it for good measure. Fully this will be, this will be good. We're pulling into the pile here in Trotsman I think it's called. Trotsman, North Carolina. 21. I'm thinking there should be some parking available for us. What do you think? I'm hoping it's going to be a good spot though. I don't like taking those. 100 meters. Keep to the left on Charlotte Highway US 21 and then approaching destination on the right side at 160. I don't like taking those parking spots that are in kind of a sketchy spot where someone's got to back in right beside me and possibly rip my bumper off. But you know nobody likes those spots but someone's got to take them. Either way as soon as my tires stop here they will be stopped for the next 36 hours. I only need 34 hours to be reset in the United States but if I want my reset to be valid in Canada when I return back there I have to do a 36 consecutive hour reset. Which means I just have to stay stopped for 36 hours and then they give me 70 hours. Destination on the right side. Pilot Travel Center number 7976. Yeah they give me 70 hours to use within the next eight days. Green light. Green means go. These people are parking out here already. That's not a good sign. Oh come on. I thought I was stopping early enough. They can possibly tell me that this parking lot's all the way full already. People parking all the way out here. Don't do this to me. It's not even dark yet. Oh no there's parking here. There's where I see it. Okay. I'd like to park where these guys are parked. That'd be nice. Let's see what we got back here. All the good spots are taken. Oh I bet you those other spots are paid parking. You gotta be kidding me. Everything's full already. See this is why I didn't want to drive too late. Bet you there's somebody in there. Bet there's a bomb tail in there or something. Why is it all full already? Come on. That's disappointing. Well let's keep going around here. See what we can find. I mean I do see some open spots over here. I just don't know if they're you know paid a park. Paid a park. Yeah those are all reserve spots. Reserve spots. Reserve reserve reserve. This is all reserve parking. All of it. All the way in the end here. Everything is full at 820. I'm gonna do a couple of loops around here. See if someone pulls out. I don't want to break my number one rule of never paying to park. But this I can't. I don't want to go further because if I go further I might not find any parking at all and I have to stop. Come on somebody pull out. Come on. Come on somebody. Somebody pull out. I don't want to pay. I never pay. What is this world coming to? Trucker Josh paid to park. Great now they're all gonna use this excuse. I see Trucker Josh did it. Let's do it with everybody. They're gonna make everything pay to park now. I didn't actually use money to do it though. I used my my flying J points. I've got a fancy little tag hanging on my driver window here and everything. So I'm not seeing it on everyone else's trucks. Huh. At $15 I used my points. So it cost me 1500 points. So I didn't pay any cash. So technically I stayed true to my values and I didn't pay to park. So there take that. So we're here now for 36 hours. Diesel. 36 hours here bud. Just me and you. Oh we're gonna have fun. We're gonna see if we can go to the park. Yep. Now we're gonna go for a walk. Yep. Spend some time outside. Yep. It's gonna be fun buddy. Maybe we'll go play some fetch. Maybe go look for some cows. Maybe we'll even see some horses man. Oh boy. Oh boy. Oh boy. Oh boy. Oh I see they're my favorite kind of dogs man. They're a really big dog. You got funny feet. I know. I know you love horses. But for now we're just going to settle in for the night and get a good rest and act like this never happened. Okay if you CEOs are listening to me right now don't make everything pay to park just because I did it once. I'm not happy about it. I don't like paying to park. I understand why you do it though. I mean if I was in your position I'd probably do it too. Money is hard to say no to right. Can you imagine? Pilot Flying J has what 300 locations? Probably more. Probably like 600. Let's say 300. And let's say they have 10 reserve parking spots at every store. Oh we're gonna do math. Are you ready for this diesel? You ready for some math? Hold on to your bridges. Okay what's going on here? Okay so let's say they have... Let's just ask Google. How many flying J... No I gotta say pilot. How many pilot flying J locations are there? 750. 750. Okay well a little more than we thought. Okay so let's say they have 10 paid parking spots at every location and they have more here. I think they have like 20 here. Well let's average it down to 10. At everyone 750. That means they have 7,500 reserve parking spots and each one they get $15 for. Times $15. That's $112,000. That's over that. $112,500 every night. Let's say they sell them out. All of them. All of them. Every day of the year. 365 days of the year. Times 365. That's $41,062,500 a year just for paid parking. 10 spots per location and a lot of locations like this one have twice that. They have 20 spots here and they all sell out every night pretty much. So let's average it up. Let's say they had 15 spots. Okay you got your thinking caps on. 15 spots at 750 locations on average. That means they have 11,250 paid parking spots and every night they fill up. Let's say that's $168,750 a day. A day just pilot flying J. Times that by every day of the year and you're looking at $61,593,750 a year just pilot flying J just for paid parking. Whoa. But like I said, can you blame them? It's not illegal. It's a private business. How do you do what they want? They can make it all paid parking if they want to. They could probably pull in because people will still park. So they could probably pull in you know like $300 million a year just by making everything paid parking. So I better be careful how much I complain about this because he might just turn around and be like oh yeah yeah you're gonna complain you're gonna complain well boom there you go all paid parking. Please don't do that. Jimmy, Jimmy buddy please don't do that. Come on man. We're not all worth a billion dollars. We don't all have money to spend every night for parking. But you got me tonight. You got you got $15 worth of points out of me tonight. You didn't get any cash but you got those points out of me. So bravo good sir. Mr. Capitalist, Mr. Monopoly Man. You got me. You know my truck's dinging at me telling me to shut up. Okay we're gonna end the vlog here. Take care everybody and I'll see you tomorrow.