 Before we get started with today's vlog. Today is a very special day over in Scotland My good friend Wadi's 50th birthday is today So I hope you have a great day, man. I hope you enjoy whatever it is. You're doing to celebrate. I hope it's a good one and I Hope that everything's going well over there across the pond. Can't wait to be able to come and visit over there again once they let us Happy birthday, man Corona transport I'm parked beside the corona Corona transport that's how it gets around. It's got a reefer and everything you see now, you know I'm here in Sudbury, Ontario It's time to go to North Bay, Ontario, but an hour and a half from here. Let me go to Ottawa and we wait till the morning We have a really good night's sleep because we're gonna have all afternoon and evening My appointment isn't till tomorrow at 9 a.m. And I'm gonna be there today probably like Three two or three in the afternoon Should be fun. You better get out there This freight ain't gonna deliver itself. I've already had a banana It was delicious I'm ready to go got my coffee right here I like the world's friendliest groundhog at this petro pass truck stop. I literally walked right up to this groundhog Hey, whoa, buddy, buddy, buddy Really you waiting you just booked to wait till I start moving Little groundhog. He's a friend these ground out again. I walked right up to him I could almost pet him and he wouldn't even like bolt away He would just sort of like slink away a few feet that I couldn't quite touch him He didn't want me. I didn't really want to touch me. I didn't know if he's gonna bite me Who knows what he's got? But still you let me get pretty close to him. Usually wildlife is not that tame For his benefit. I wish she was a little bit more scared of me, but Can you do 500 meters turn right on cross on call for a man turn right into 110 meters Karen, you are nuts First thing in the morning. You're already trying to mess with me. No, we're gonna go left. We'll start left right here You want me to go straight down the residential road there? Do a u-turn come back so I can go this way What's wrong with you? Very nice Take the entrance to the right on highway 17 a star TE 17 east north bay And 400 meters take the entrance to the right on highway 17 east our TE 17 east north bay All right, I see what kind of day it's gonna be Which has made the day a lot better I found a Tim Horton's that I can stop at that made the day a lot better. I found some parking Right close to where I have to deliver in Ottawa on Google Maps and using the trucker path app. I Keep having comments in my comment section Let's say trucker Josh, you should use the trucker path app. I talk about it almost every day. Don't I do use it It's a great app. I'd recommend it tells you where all the truck parking is where the scales are You can help let other drivers know if there's spots available or if the scales open so according to that there's nine parking spots available at this tiny little card lock that we're gonna go to in Southeast Ottawa a glow Chester. I think it is. Is that the suburb? Is that what it's called if not there? I can go to the Petro Pass in the same area up the street where I used to park all the time when I was on vans years ago Good old memories going back to my old stomping grounds 34 o'clock deliver till 9 a.m. Tomorrow the nation's capital Well, you could just say in three kilometers keep going get out wants to be in Ottawa Okay, speed limits going down here again day. Yeah, some cop and his cruiser freaked me out before Came on to the highway and he came on rushing like right as if he was gonna pull me over You know they come like from the side as if they must have caught you doing something wrong And they're about to pull you over and he pulls in right behind me as I as I go past him And he says right on my bumper for like five minutes so close. I couldn't even see him I think he's gone now. I don't know if he isn't he's really close. I Think he's gone Yeah, I need to stay back there like five. I thought he was gonna pull me over for something I was like, what did I do? I'm wearing my seatbelt. I'm doing the speed limit Wasn't holding my phone got two hands on the wheel Why is he following me? So for sure I was gonna see his cherries flick on and then have him want to talk to me about something And now he's gone now. I thought behind me Just freaked me out So I looked down at my speedometer. I was in the construction zone like this, right? And I looked down I said I was doing the speed limit or we're just going to the One through Ottawa on the way east right now We're going to the southeast side of the city like I was telling you before 600 meters Keep to the left on highway 174 East RTE 174 East St. Lord on Boulevard You really like to talk a lot You just say keep left Or just go straight. Yeah, this is a beautiful city. I'm hard on Ottawa. I rag on it all the time But it is a beautiful city. This is where all the power is concentrated across the country and It's a nice place to come visit. I mean if you come visit Canada and you're from overseas or you're from the US or wherever you're from Ottawa is a must-see. I mean that's it's as Canada as it can get. This is the heart of Canada It's the United Nations capital. Don't go to Toronto. That's not Canada. Come to Ottawa. This is where all the things are made Maybe a little hint if you come to Canada. No one likes Toronto All these people are speeding. Why isn't that cop chasing any of these people? Why was he tailgating me? It's like he knew who I was or something I don't know. I shook him off. He's gone I can't, Karen Something about how Ontario makes their freeways makes our GPS talk non-stop going through any Ontario city Just go straight. Just don't turn That ding all you want to me, Karen. Watch your language I have to deliver in the morning Into that building right over there So I'm literally right across the street here. I didn't even know this place existed. There's only nine parking spots here But there's still two or three open yet Plus, I guess like guys are parking over there because they want to be alone and left alone I guess another one could probably park over here So you could probably fit about 12 trucks in this lot if you Arranged it right made it correctly Didn't mess around. This is a pipeline commercial. This is uh A truck stop that's only in like Ontario and Quebec, I believe None of these out west. So I don't know who owns this or if it's its own thing or shell or something owns it Who knows but all I know is I'm sitting right here for the next time now Seven o'clock it's about seven o'clock and I got to deliver it 9 a.m. Tomorrow. So Unless 14 hours gonna be sitting right here Waiting empty my load and then I have a new load. I'm going to North Carolina. The load gods sent me a message They've been good to me. They like I have two I have two load assignments here. What's this? Okay, it's going to I've got to pick it up in Ontario And it's going to high point North Carolina. What's the other one? Oh that one was from last week Oh, okay. That was the one I picked up in Iowa Yeah, I got to pick this up in nefton n e p h t o n ontario nefton ontario And it goes to high point north carolina and then from there i'm requesting that I go, uh back home Quiet i'm not going anywhere That's my day. It was a very short day not much to show you today I want to see some grass. There's some grass I hope to see you here tomorrow We'll probably I don't know from the from here the us is quite quite a ways We'll probably get into the us tomorrow. I'd assume so I can drive a full day tomorrow yet How many hours I got left on my 70 I got 44 hours left on my 70 I should be able to get down there and back home fingers crossed. Let's hope So I'll talk to you tomorrow then guys right here. Don't forget to subscribe hit the like button Follow my life around on the boring days and the exciting days