 Good morning everybody. It's Wednesday morning. We're still here. But I think the ferry is going to go today. It's not snowing anymore and I don't think we'll have a problem boarding and getting moving. It's been stranded here since Monday due to a snowstorm. The only way to get to this community is by ferry in the summertime or fall time. Once the ice freeze is over they have an ice road that leads here. But for now I rely on the ferry and just as I got here it started to snow and then I delivered my product. I had a bunch of household goods like stoves, ovens, beds, mattresses and stuff. Delivered it here. They helped me unload. It was super quick. I rushed back to get to the ferry and by the time I got back here the storm had started. They cancelled the ferry Monday afternoon. We were hoping to get going Tuesday morning. Still storming. They postponed it to the afternoon. It was still storming. They cancelled it all together for yesterday. Now it's Wednesday morning and everything looks like it's cleared up. It's still dark out but they're getting them. I'm pretty sure they're going to load us up. So good news. I want to get moving. Once we get to the other side of the lake there's still a 125 kilometer or 75 mile stretch of remote gravel road yet that I don't know if it's been cleared. I'm hoping that it's passable and clear so that I can get out of here, get to Thompson and then from there we take Highway 6 which is thankfully paved all the way back down to Winnipeg. It's going to be an interesting day. Don't forget to subscribe. I'll talk to you once we're loading onto the ferry. Looks like boarding is beginning. They're going to put these cars on first and then I guess I'm going to come in last right in the middle. Such good news. I'm so glad. Today is a nice calm day. Look at that lake. It's almost like glass. So how many of us can they fit on here? I'm on a boat. There goes shore. To be honest with you guys, I didn't film boarding because I embarrassed myself a little bit and got stuck. So thank god that's all over. So this morning I got up, did my pre-trip on the truck right, made sure everything was running properly, air and tires, all that stuff, you know. Then I thought of it. Man, I've had my trailer brakes on for two days here and it's gotten cold. I better make sure that they're not locked up. So okay, I'll go out to my trailer and I check out the brakes. From what I could see, they're unlocked, right? I released the air in the trailer, trailer lifted up, brakes released. I could hear them go, because they were a little bit frozen on, right? Well apparently they were locked. And so I started going down the hill, looking at my trailer. I was like, okay, I couldn't see the wheels in my mirror just yet and I don't got those yellow spokes that poke out, right? They said, well, the trailer's unlocked, everything's coming with me. Good. Going down the hill. And then I see the trailer start to skid towards the ditch and away from the road because I was going onto the road. The trailer was sort of staying behind. I said, oh no. Okay, so I stopped right away, pulled my tractor brakes and I was going to go back there, release my trailer brakes, got them unlocked, get back in the truck. By now I'm blocking access to the ferry. Most had gotten on already, but the last guy behind me was waiting. I was the second last guy on and I'm blocking the whole ferry access. No one else can get on, right? So I get back in my truck and I'm stuck right there. Remember I told you, once I start going down, I can't stop or I'm going to be stuck. I can't stop till I'm on the ferry. I'm empty and there's been a lot of snow. Well, I had to stop because my brakes were still frozen and it boggled my mind because I went back there and checked and I felt them unlock. But obviously I was wrong. Didn't go very far. It happens, right? You look in your mirror, oh shoot, trailer didn't release. You go back there and knock on them a little bit, get them to release and then you continue going. But this time I'd sunk in right there and I'll stop blocking access. So they had to get the front end loader to come in from the airport and just move my trailer over like two feet. That's all it needed. It just needed to be moved over two feet and then I could, he gave me a little push and I got onto the ferry. The whole ordeal delayed everything by about 15 minutes and put me in the spotlight where I didn't want to be in the spotlight a little with everybody waiting for the ferry to go because everyone's been waiting for two days. And here comes Trucker Josh delaying things by another 15 minutes. So that was my morning, sweating a little bit. How was your morning? Going backwards this time. I really hope that I'm not going to have problems driving off the ferry because no one can get off this ferry until I get off the ferry. And I'm feeling that at the ferry there's going to be uphill, right? And I'm empty. I have no load in the box behind me. And if I can't make it up that hill, no one's getting off the ferry over there. Wish me luck. Might get stuck. But luckily this ramp here wasn't as steep as the one on the other side. It was pretty much a level flat road right off. You saw it there. Lucky for me. So now we've got to try to get up this secluded remote gravel road, which is now going to be a snow road, I guess, once we get out of Split Lake. And it's going to be 125 kilometers or 75 miles of complete remote wilderness we got to get through with no cell signal. So I've let work and family all know where I'm at, that everything is working and then I'm about to head into this remote area so that, you know, if I don't get in touch with them again in a couple of hours, they know exactly where I am. Ooh, it won't be here. I forgot about this. Whoa, blow down too much because I don't want to get stuck up these hills. You'd be surprised how easy a truck can get stuck pulling an empty van trailer. It's like dead weight behind me, right? It's rolling. Yeah, but it's not pushing. I'm pulling it. So if I go up even the slightest hill and it's icy, I just spin out and then I either got to back up and take a running start at it or I got to chain up. I'd rather do anything other than chain up my tires because that's a big pain in the butt. I really don't want to deal with that today. I just want to get out of here. I want to go home. Just a few kilometers up, a few miles and it happens. We break down, we hit the niche. There's a road for 126 kilometers. It'd be smart to do during the day. I'm not from this region of my province so I don't even know what the, like I know what, like the bears, if they're a danger to humans here or what their population numbers are. I'll take you with me here down a little under the snow. It's gravel. This is as remote as it gets in Manitoba, I think. You get to Thompson. I can't even see where the potholes are because everything's just so white right now, right? This is not something that I'm going to subject old blue to. Again, I don't mind. At least not very often. This is a little bit of a unique load that I took up here. I thought it'd be a fun experience. While it was an experience, one that I won't forget. Got a vehicle coming here too. I don't want to stop on this uphill. It doesn't look like much of a hill, but it's enough to get me stuck if I stop. He's just giving her. You know, when you see vehicles from Northern Manitoba and Winnipeg, they're always all filthy and beat up and like things fall, hanging off of them. Now you know why. These are the roads they got to deal with. 75 kilometers of this just to get to the ferry, and the ferry's two hours to get to their community yet. Can you imagine living that far away from everything? And Thompson's a small city. What? Maybe 30,000, 20,000 people? Maybe? 10,000? Small city. To get all the way down to Winnipeg is a 10 and a half hour drive in good weather. After you get off the two-hour ferry, Winnipeg would be the closest city to go to. Because if you go north that way, there's nothing. Well, there's Nunavut. There's 30,000 people living in Nunavut. Spread out. There's, but it's the tundra up that way. And you go far enough north there. You go over the Arctic Ocean. You end up in Northern Russia. So you don't want to go too far that way. I think sometimes we forget living in Southern Canada that Russia is our Northern neighbor right over there. They need some proper roads up here. Man. Good old blue. You're doing good. I'm trying to be nice to you. So I think what would be customary on this road since there's no cell reception and no way to call for help? If you pass by somebody who's having trouble, you stop and help them. That's a given up here. You don't pass by anybody in trouble. And if they're stopped, you check to make sure they're okay. Maybe they're just stopping to, I don't know, maybe they have kids with them and the kids are crying or someone had to go to the bathroom. But you always stop and make sure everyone's okay up here. Because you might be the one that saves their life. You might be the only one passing by them, especially if it's at night. So as far as I know, 911 will still work even when you don't have cell signal, which is strange. I guess it goes off of the satellites or something then. But you should be able to call 911 from here. But, you know, I'm not going to try and confirm that. There's still a chance that you can't get any help. And it gets really dark and cold at night. Really dark. So here, this one was here on the way up already. Okay, yeah, they put a cone. Terrible, but it's not as terrible. We made it. We're about to turn back onto the pavement. What a ride. Okay, so there's a little pull out here right before we turned. I need to go and check all blue and make sure that everything is still there. That was a terrible, terrible road. Yikes. How are you doing here, old blue? All lug nut covers and center covers that are all still in their place. Bumpers still where it should be. This side's here all looking good. All the tires are still here. It's good. I was worried about these center caps, you know. I need to replace them, especially the ones on the front. I thought that all the vibrating might have rattled them off, but nope. I was looking back here. Oh, yeah, there you go. Don't want those covered up. It's that time of year again. Hey, all our lights always get all covered up. We survived and she's not even that dirty. We'll clear the taillights off at the back. Joys of winter. Okay, well, I think we're good to continue. I'm going to stop and Thompson here and fuel up again. Since there's snow on the ground, my rule for myself is I never, never let my tanks go below half tank in the winter time. And if I go all the way back down south to Winnipeg, they'll be well below that by the time we get there. And I like to be prepared because we all saw what happened to me the last couple of days. I got stranded up there, but because I was prepared, I was okay. I had a week's worth of food in the truck, so I had food. I had full tanks of fuel when I got there. So I had fuel and I have about three big 24 packs of water bottles. So I had lots of water as well. As you can hear, got my cell signal back. We're out of the thick of it. Just let my wife know that I'm back to the pavement, that I'm out of the bush. She says that she's glad I made it safely. And I don't think I'm gonna accept any more loads up this far north, at least not in this winter season. Old blue isn't a winter road truck. I'm not taking it on the winter roads. They get very rough as you saw there. That was a pretty good road. They get worse than that. So we'll wait till next summer before we come back up here again, I think. Well, I didn't know it was gonna snow already because down south we don't let snow yet. But the weather's a little different up here. Look at that glorious road. Look at it. It's got some snow on it, but that's okay. That is pavement and I'll take it. Come on, get on the pavement, old blue. Get on that pavement. Yeah, there you go. How's that feel? Get rid of the snow for you soon too, don't worry. Look at this dip here. Let's suck you right in there. Thanks. That big, like the size of a building, does it show up at all? I know the sun is right there and that makes it kind of difficult to see. That's talent. The tank's a little blue's happy and just in case if something else happens that we're prepared with a lot of fuel. Some too many times over the years, always be prepared, always. Apparently this is the 42nd clip that I filmed today. I don't even know I filmed that much. I probably didn't include most of it in the actual vlog itself, but there's gonna be a lot to go through tonight. It's the Pelican Landing in Grand Rapids, Manitoba. A little over half-ways down. About half-ways from Thompson, down a little more than half-way from where we were. 454 kilometers left. All right, I'm gonna drive the next couple of hours, get back to the yard and I'll touch base with you there. I'm gonna sort through all this footage. How did I take 42 clips from today? This is 43, isn't it?