 it's actually afternoon already. I'm getting going. That load that I picked up on Friday needs to be delivered Monday morning. So we better get going. It is Sunday when I'm filming this right now. Gotta be the first thing in the morning. I have about a six, six and a half hour drive to get there. So it's not like it's a very long drive or anything, but this is what it is. Since we went home, we'll be crossing at Pembina, North Dakota into the US instead of at International Falls, Minnesota. Works out better that way for me. We might be able to go right past Fargo and get a truck wash tonight as well. I think I'll have time and I don't think there'll be too long of a lineup on a Sunday night. So we'll see. Maybe I'll go to the North Star Wash if they're open. Either way, we have to get rolling. Let's go. Boris Manitoba, shout out to Greg. Said hi to me at the Tim Hortons there. I didn't stay in there. The lineup was longer than I've ever seen it. I walked in the door there. There was like 15 people in line. Doesn't sound like a lot of people, right? But the whole place was packed. It's just a small little place. A coffee shop. I got to stop for fuel anyways. He saw me there as I was walking in. Said he watches my videos. Don't know if you're watching this one specifically, but he lives right outside of town here. Highway 75. This is going to turn into US interstate 29. Stop to get Grand Forks for fuel and Flying J. That's my cheapest fuel on road. Stopped here in Pemba, North Dakota, just over the border. I don't have quite enough fuel to get down to Grand Forks. Not comfortably anyways. I might have made it, but I don't want to risk it. So I threw in 20 gallons here at the gas tracks and that'll get me down to Grand Forks where I can fill up completely. The price at Grand Forks is way cheaper than here. Here I paid $369 per gallon. In Grand Forks, my price is $329 per gallon. So I'm going to go and fill up there. Gave myself just enough to sweat the bottom of the tanks so that we can get down over there. I'm just putting this all into my record keeping books here and then we're going to be on our way. The sun's going down already. So all of this vlog will be at night. Do my best. Okay, so we made it. I didn't have to put in 20 gallons. I guess I could have gotten away with like 10. I'm sitting at an eighth of a tank right now. So maybe I didn't even need to put anything in, but I wanted to be sure. I didn't want to run out of fuel on the way here. So I don't like running this low. If it was cold outside, I definitely would never do this. Winter never came this year. We had it for what, one or two days? Even right now it's minus one Celsius. So it's like 30 Fahrenheit. February. It's beautiful. It's beautiful. If this is the future of winters here, I am okay with that. So the bad news is that we running a little bit slower than we wanted to because we had to stop for that fuel there in Pamina. Now I don't have time to run through Fargo to grab a truck wash. I was really hoping to be able to get there, but it doesn't look like it's going to work out now. So I may have to delay that. I wish they had a Blue Beacon, well, one in Manitoba and at least one here in Fargo too. Is there any good truck washes that you guys know of that's sort of like Blue Beacon, where they wash the truck for you? Sort of like North Star in Fargo. There's something like that in Grand Forks that I just am not aware of yet. I want to make sure I get diesel number two. Which one is diesel number two? Diesel number two. I don't need diesel number one in this weather. I want to tell the world that I am fueling because the government likes to know everything I am doing every day of the week, whether I'm at work or not. Even when I'm not at work, I still have to log that day as, you know, off duty. They still need to see that log for that day. So where's my jacket here? What in the world? What in the world where to put my jacket? There you are. What are you doing under there? Okay. So I have some happy news to report to you. Last time I talked to you, I was talking about intermittent fasting. Pretty much what that means is I eat for eight hours the day and I fast or I just don't eat for 16 hours overnight. So if I stop eating at 5pm, I just don't eat anything until 9am the next day, right? It makes it easy because you're sleeping most of that time anyway. So your body doesn't really have time to bug you too much about being hungry. Last week, I lost four pounds. I started the week off at 227 pounds. Heaviest I've ever been. Haven't been able to shake it. And when I went home, I weighed myself 223 pounds. So it's working and I can feel it working too. Just giving my body a chance to like, my biggest thing is I overeat. I eat too much and I eat because I'm bored. I'm bored at night before I go to bed. Oh, let's have some munchies or even if it's something healthy or whatever, it's just, I'm always shoving stuff in my face because there's nothing else to do sometimes. I'm just, why not, right? And then my body gets used to that. And then when I stopped doing that, it's suddenly mad at me like, what are you doing? We need food. No, we don't. No, we don't. I've eaten enough today. I don't need more food. Stop eating now. So for the first day or two, my body was kind of upset at me like, hey, why aren't we eating? We need to eat now. We're going to die. It wasn't that bad, but then it got used to it. My headaches went away. I found myself drinking a lot more water. This is just one week, just one week into this. I already lost four pounds. That's how fast. I guess it might not go that fast the whole time. It might just be the initial like bloating of over eating all the time that just sort of went down. But hopefully, I mean, I want to get down to between 180 and 190 under 200 and I'd be happy already. So if I could lose like 25 pounds, it'd be great. I don't expect to lose that much, that quick forever, like this whole time. But I just figured I'd share that news. I was happy to see that. And hopefully, hopefully that continues. Okay, so we bought 707.895 liters or 187 gallons here. My price was $324 a US gallon. It cost me $695 US. Converted that's $1.157 per liter, as opposed to a gas tax earlier today, we paid $1.32 a liter or $369.9. So if we go $369.9 times 187 gallons, that would have cost me $691.71 in Pemina, whereas here it only cost me $605, the same amount of fuel. It was a $100 difference. And in Canadian funds, it cost me in $1.32. Let's say we bought 707 liters or .8 liters at $1.32 as $934 Canadian. Instead, we spent $819. Subtract $819. It was $118.30 cheaper, approximately $118 cheaper Canadian to buy my fuel here instead of there. That's why I did what I did. That's money I can use for myself to put food on the table because groceries are so expensive right now. Got to do what we can to survive. I got to stop printing money so that my money in my bank doesn't keep becoming worth less and less. Really starting to think about Bitcoin a lot. I think I might buy a little bit. We'll see. Might start off just like $100 worth. I'll talk to Britt about it. At least that has a finite supply, right? There's only what 22? Is it 22 million Bitcoin out there? And they don't keep printing off more and more and more and more. Let's go. Let's get out of here. It's here for too long again. Had to be done though. Now I don't have time to wash the truck. That makes me sad. But again, we're just trying to survive. It's supposed to be a big snowstorm rolling in here tomorrow. It's not supposed to be as bad in Minnesota, but they are going to get some snow, which is another reason why I spend, you know, $120 washing it all down tonight just for it to snow and get all full of dirt in the morning again, right? Eventually you just got to do it, even though it's going to get dirty again. Winter time is a nasty season. I really can't wait for real spring to show up. None of this fake spring. I want the real spring here at this time of night. Less people to worry about, less chances of someone running into me. I'm just going to go up here around the corner, park right at the gate, and I'll be ready first thing in the morning when they want to unload me. Got my new marker lights installed before this trip. I like them. I think they look all right and nice and bright. I'm stuck parking here because the lineup at the gate was full. Great. There was at least six or seven trucks. I didn't count them while I was there. They were lined up on both sides of the street going right up to the gate. There wasn't even one more spot for me to park, not even one spot. So I had to come down the street here to this open lot. This is the only place I could find a park around here. And I guess they're all getting unloaded before me. I was hoping to get unloaded first thing, so I'd have time to run up to Kanora tomorrow and get loaded if that's what happens. We also have to wait for Brit to get a hold of us because tomorrow morning she has an appointment, an ultrasound at the fertility clinic, and it all depends on what that ultrasound or how it goes. The egg retrieval is either going to be on Wednesday or Thursday. So if it's on Thursday, I got some time to run back and forth here yet, right? But if it's on Wednesday, I wanted to quickly run up to Kanora and grab another load, bring it back down here, quickly deliver it, and then go home. Just sneak one more in, right? With that many people in front of me, I don't know how long they've been there. It's the weekend. So I don't know if they've been there all weekend or if they all came out today. Could have been that they all came today. I wasn't expecting that. Well, next time I'll know better. I've never seen that many trucks lined up at the gate ever on any day. So it's obviously going to be very busy. So I'm going to still show up there when the gate opens because I'm sure there's more trucks lurking around here somewhere that also couldn't fit at the gate there. So they're probably all going to show up tomorrow when the gate opens as well. So we'll see what time I get out of there when I get unloaded because everybody's got to untarp. Everybody's got to roll up their tarps, put away their equipment, get unloaded. Only three guys can get into the building at a time. So I'll be sitting outside for a little while yet anyway. Well, that's okay. I mean, that's trucking. That's the way it goes. I'm not too upset about it. A little disappointed, but what can I do? It is what it is. There is a caribou coffee right across the street here that I can go get some coffee at in the morning. There's a plus side. See, there's always a silver lining to every dark rain cloud. I rushed all the way over here. If I would have known this, I could have left tomorrow morning from home possibly. I mean, we'll find out tomorrow. I'm sure I'll still make good time. I mean, they get you unloaded so fast here. I'm sure it'll be fine. But anyways, I'm going to go to bed. I'll see you guys here in the morning. Thanks for watching the video today. Time for me to get to bed. I have one more question yet before I go to bed and before you guys sign off. My tarps are getting pretty old. I've been keeping, keeping up with them. They are dirty, yeah, but I have been keeping them patched. Every time there's a hole, I give it a patch, but they're becoming more patch than tarp. So I'm going to have to replace these soon. I'm wondering if you guys know by experience of any good place I can buy new tarps and how I can get them up to Manitoba if they're not already in Manitoba. How much do they cost? I'm looking for a set of three. I got two end tarps and a center tarp with eight foot sides, flaps on the front of the end and front obviously. Blue. They've got to be blue. So if you guys know of any company that you'd recommend to me, let me know down below in the comments. If you make tarps and you are the manufacturer of the tarps and you would like to sell me some tarps, get a hold of me at my email, truckerjoshvlogs at gmail.com. I need a new set very soon.