 Hey, how are you doing? This is Vito from up here in Lovell, Wyoming. You are tuned to Trucker Josh and his partner in crime, Diesel. Be sure to enjoy the show. Don't forget to subscribe. Give us a thumbs up. Where are we? In Iowa somewhere. Let me check for you. I should have checked this before I started talking to you, I guess. But this is more fun. Looking at Google right now. We're in Ottawa. I need that. Ottawa, Iowa. Really? They named it Ottawa, Iowa? Where are you from? Ottawa, Iowa? Ottawa, Iowa, Ottawa, Iowa, Ottawa, Iowa, Ottawa, Iowa. Say that ten times as fast as you can. Alright, we've been our pre-trip. We have walked the Weasel. Our dash camera is recording. It was recording all night, but it's definitely recording now. I always want to make sure that's recording. Just in case if any of these drivers out here pull anything sneaky on me, got you on camera. 24-7. Let's figure out how to get out of here. I'm going to go about a half hour up the road and stop and pilot and get my coffee there. Because I am addicted to their new coffee that they have, that fresh coffee. What do you even call those coffee makers? It's not like a regular coffee, it makes it fresh. Because fresh as you can possibly get, it's got all the beans on top of the machine, right? The fresh beans. And then you select what you want on this little touchscreen. And it grinds the beans right there in front of you. And then mixes it wherever and then gives you a fresh coffee. Fresh as you can possibly, it's so good. I get the organic Colombian usually. That's been my favorite coffee lately and recently. So good. So good. I will go the extra mile just to get there to get that coffee. And they're not even like paying me to talk about it, I just like it that much. Okay, signal buddy. Blinker. Don't look at me like that was my fault. You didn't use your signal. Just about to roll on in front of you. Don't start my day off like that. I'm going to have a good day. Still looking at me like it was my fault. This is going to be a good day. I'm going to make it a good day. Today is a good day for a good day. It's going to be a good day. Let's get on the freeway here. Now let's get down the road. Let's get our coffee because that's going to really kickstart my day. It's how much I want this coffee. It would be it for me to turn around if I miss a turn. Usually I just go on to the next one. Unless if it's something important. I'm going to park right here. Oh that's reserve parking for who? Reserve parking. I didn't see that sign before. Fine then. Fine. I'm not special enough for you. Parking. Somewhere I can just park like in front of the pumps maybe. I don't want a coffee. Why don't we just fill up? Why don't we just fill up our tanks? I was going to do this in Sioux Falls but why don't we just do it here right now. This guy's almost done. May as well. Perfect. I picked the right lane too. That didn't take long at all. I usually pick the lane. It takes the longest for some reason. Alright we'll fuel everything up here. We've got to put some fuel conditioner into our fuel because we're going down into temperatures that are going to be minus 26 tomorrow or tonight. And with the windshield flying down the highway that's going to make it a lot colder than minus 26. So we're going to put some power service in our fuel. I'm not risking it. We're about to exit here at exit 207. So that'll be fun. Their nature has other plans for me. Well Karen, first we're going to turn right and go get a coffee because I'm going to need a coffee to deal with all this wind. We're about halfway through our day. It's about a little less than that. We've got 6 hours 22 minutes left on our driving clock. I've already stopped for my half hour break. So this is just going to be a quick turn left on US 12. Karen, I'm about to make you a very angry woman. I'm about to turn right. Go ahead. Tell me I never listen. I don't care. I'm getting a coffee. I heard you but I'm still not going to listen. You guys will probably remember this place. Remember it used to be a gravel parking lot and they paved it in like the last year or so. They've got a little dog run here off on the left. If you want to go running through some snow banks. There's plenty of those here. Looks like there's like 3 feet of snow inside that dog run. Dogs can just run up the snow bank and jump over the fence. Yeah, we suddenly hit a lot of snow. It happened in the last hour or so. There was no snow down in Iowa. But once we hit South Dakota, suddenly it got a little more interesting, a little more fun. And we still got a long ways to go up. We've got to go up through North Dakota. We've got to go into Saskatchewan and into Alberta yet. I'm not going to go too far. I might go up to Minot tonight. That's where I'm trying to get to. That's still about 6 hours away and I only got 6 hours left of my clock. I don't know if I'm going to make it there. We're going through some back country. So it's going to be a stop and go in small towns. I'm going to take a little bit of a scenic route. We've got the time. And then I'm going to stop in Calgary and go to the Chinook Mall to do my Christmas shopping. That's what I'm thinking of doing. I mean, we'll see what happens. I'm going to find another one on the way up, but that's... I haven't been to that mall in so long. And I sort of just want to go somewhere where I can just wander around indoors for a couple of hours and relax while I do my shopping. Because I really hate shopping. I really do. I want to make it as enjoyable and pleasant as possible. This is my spot as close as I can get to the door. I know, I know. Trucker Josh is lazy. No, I just don't like the cold. But you're Canadian Trucker Josh. I know. I still don't like the cold. That is not a required thing to be Canadian. I've heard your comments, or I've read them actually, but I heard them when I said them out loud to myself. I thought they fixed that. This was all in our construction this summer. I guess it broke again. You're wondering why my lights aren't very bright. A lot of you have been saying, you've got to get different lights so we can see. Well, it's not exactly my lights that are bad. It's YouTube the way they process the video. Because I have a GoPro Hero 7 Black. It picks up pretty good low light situations. And when I'm editing the footage, I can see the road just fine. But for some reason, when I upload it on to YouTube and they process it, it darkens the image and the video quite a bit. So everything is darker when you see it than when I film it. Which is kind of frustrating. But this is what it is. It's YouTube I guess, eh? Here's the Chiefton Motel. There's our friend. There's our Chief friend waving at us. Hey, bud. How you doing? He's sitting there. You know, if I stand there like that, it means something totally different. We're going to stop here at the Carrington Truck Stop. I don't want to stop here for a night yet. I want to go all the way to Minot. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Karen. I know. First, I'm going to grab a coffee here. Coffee number three today. Usually I only have two per day. We're going to have three today. Because we're feeling hardcore. We're going to go all the way to Minot, and fuel up for the night because it's a little cold, as you can see outside. I want to have full tanks when I go to bed, and then we'll start from there in the morning. We have 14 minutes left on our 11 hours of driving today. And we're pulling into the flying hook. I'm going to fuel up tonight so that I have full tanks, because it is minus 20 outside again. I don't even want to know what the windshield is, so I believe Minot here sells diesel number one as well, which is winter diesel. Grab me some of that. Put some fuel conditioner into my fuel to make double sure it's not going to freeze up on me. Find ourselves a place to park and call it a night. I hope there's room here. If not, I'm making room. We've got 13 minutes left now. Right? Right? 10 hours and 13 minutes of remaining drive time. Yep, that's what I thought.