 Good morning everybody. We're in Ottawa, Illinois. Not Ottawa, Ontario. Ottawa, Illinois. USA. Nice clean unit. So glad we got it washed yesterday. It's a happy trailer. You can see the happy trailer rolling through. It just might be me. I won't have this trailer every trip. It's just for this trip. I've never seen this trailer before. I don't know where it came from but it's got my load in it and I was told to take it and I double checked. So we got a happy trailer this week. The happy face in the bag. I washed it down yesterday at the Blue Beacon. We're ready to roll in towards New Jersey and New York. I made a mistake. I thought I was not going into New York City. I thought I was just dipping into the suburbs. Not true. We're going to the island. It's called Long Island. We got to go through New York City to the other side of New York City to a town called Hop-Hup-Hudge. I still can't pronounce it. I didn't even look. I thought it was I thought it was on like the Newark area side like close to New Jersey like just barely into New York or upper New York because I was told that it was in the northern part of the US of the New York state, not the city. Not true. We're going through New York City. That's a nice surprise. But it's what I got to do so I'll get it done. So we're going to go and try to get Cranford, New Jersey delivered tomorrow afternoon. That's my first drop. So I'm just going to book it today as fast as I can. Get to around Brookville, I believe, Brooksville, Pennsylvania. I'm going to try to stop with Flying JTA around there. That's about 600 miles from here and then tomorrow as soon as I can I'm going to book it into Cranford, New Jersey. Try to get that off in the afternoon and then I'm going to go back out of the city, go back west, find a good parking spot away from New York City, go to bed and then early in the morning, early early in the morning, as soon as we can we're going to wake up and we're going to try to get through traffic before everybody else wakes up. It's going to be fun. I mentally prepare myself now for New York City. The sooner we get going, the sooner we get out of New York City. I'm not even in New York City yet. I already want to get out of New York City. Trailer breaks work. Trailer's attached. Didn't fall off. And they released too. Bonus. All right. I'm going to rush today because I need to get to my desk like my end of day as soon as possible so I can start my 10 hours as soon as possible. So I was going to avoid the I-80 toll road going through Ohio but not anymore. The time is more valuable to me than saving the tolls. I'll be able to make sure that I trip plan properly. Otherwise I'm going to get stuck somewhere in New York and there's very, very few parking options once you get into New York City. There's practically nothing. There's a couple of service areas on the turnpikes there but it's not exactly the place you want to go if you can avoid it. Interstate 80 eastbound. Take the entrance to the left on. I already told them Karen. You're kind of late to the party here. Why are you late for work? I dock you pay for every minute you're late. East towards Joliet. Go, go, go, go, go. Fine parking tonight. I might even have to pay for parking. Okay, we're going to have fun. Going to Chicago on the other side. Coming eastbound into Chicago. That is, it's got to be the worst highway I've seen in years and I've seen a lot of bad highway. Actually, I shouldn't say that. As soon as you got close to Chicago, Illinois is fine outside the city. Once you get close to the city it's just, wow, drastic difference. But it seems like we're, uh, remains to be seen. We'll see. At least one thing I can count on with these, with the I-80 is the massive service plazas and there's no scales. Travel plaza, these things are amazing. I don't need to go into this one right now. We're going to get to, I think it's called Brooksville. I told you already, right? Brooksville, Pennsylvania. Get from the city and wake up super early the next morning and get into onto Long Island. Sign here, check brakes on the left. That would be a good idea. Hey, you should probably check your brakes before you get here. You should probably do that in your pre-trip too. But if you haven't, if you didn't, now's a good time to check your brakes. It's the toll booth coming. And we're in Indiana, so you still got to slow right down unless they've changed that already. Most other states have the express lanes where you can just drive right through. Looks like they're building that up ahead. Just off the old easy pass transponder. I don't use it that often. Okay, I see the lanes here. So the ones that have the purple screen with the white writing on top of it, any one of them, they all accept easy pass. But at least someone's supposed to be moving quicker because it's easy pass only. I don't have issues with my transponder. It's always embarrassing. Hold the whole lineup. Through he got the green light. Now it's my turn. They're going to scan my transponder. Always worried that that thing's not going to work. Now I'm going to be stuck there all embarrassed. I have to call it. Dude, me and my transponder didn't work. The traffic, everyone's getting mad at me honking. Forge in Craig. This is the good thing about these toll roads, or at least this toll road. The first good thing is that they accept easy pass. I wish all states would just get on that same system to actually go inside. Great. Continue on this road for 351 kilometers. Right on the end, right here, this one's frozen. Look at all these parking spots, right? Beautiful. More parking over here. Nice. So nice when they provide parking for us. And this would be, well, this would be provided by the toll company, right? Is that government owned or is it privately owned? I'm not sure on the I-80 here. More nervous the further east I go, because I know I'm going to have problems finding parking if I'm not careful. Be careful and try to get there as early as we can. A little bit disappointed in this stretch of toll road. Look at these potholes here. And this has been the whole way. The road is terrible. I guess you just assume if you're paying these, if you're paying these high tolls, I guess just assume that they're going to take care of the road. But this stretch could use some work. And I haven't seen any construction or anything indicating that they're on it. But in my humble opinion, they could probably take a look at this highway. Give you my money. Now could you please fix the highway? As soon as we hit Ohio, the road turned perfectly smooth. So I guess the states are different. Maybe the tolls from this part go to Ohio. It's not all one company that owns the whole stretch, I guess, through the states. So we've got to Ohio here. Even the pavement changed. I guess it's just Indiana and Illinois. I-80 through those two states. We'll see how Ohio does. But so far, you can tell a difference immediately. How's Michigan doing? I haven't been there in a while and I remember Michigan. They used to have crazy bad roads. Oh, this is narrow. What in the world? Are you kidding me? Oh, and this guy doesn't have a transponder, really? This is what I was talking about before. That's embarrassing. You can't back up. An inch of space on each side of your vehicle can hurt people. It's kind of scary, right? Please get hit all the time. Okay, what's this? I'm not from here. I'm a paid tourist just rolling through. This place is crazy. Glad I got a spot. I decided to stop here for tonight. We made it to just outside of Youngstown. I believe Austin Town. Just outside of Youngstown, we're in Austin Town, Ohio, right by the Pennsylvania border. Got here at about 8 o'clock. I had more time. I could drive further, but I was looking around at the parking spots and checking my trucker path app at available parking up ahead of me on the road. Everything was filling up 8 o'clock. I was lucky to get this spot here, so I filled up right here. This was the cheapest fuel on my road. That's why I was here in the first place when I came here because they had cheap juice. Filled it up, looked around. I saw a parking spot. I took it, and I'm glad I did because everything is just jam-packed now, and everybody's just piling in in every way, shape, and form they can. So, I'm going to get up real early. We're in Eastern Time Zone right now, so I got here at 8 o'clock Eastern. It would be 7 o'clock Central. So, I'm going to get up at probably around, I want to leave at about 6.30 in the morning Eastern Time, so 5.30. I'll probably be up around 5.45. Get myself up, have some breakfast, and try to get rolling. It's gonna be 45 minutes. Quickly throw on some clothes, get out there, do my pre-trip. Come in here, eat a granola bar or something for breakfast, something simple. Go in and grab a coffee, and hit the road. I'll have about 7 hours of driving tomorrow, 6.30 to 7 hours, and we're going to make it to Cranford, hopefully between 1 and 2 o'clock, and I have to be there before 3 for them to receive me. So, the plan is to deliver that and then run over to, what's that place again? There is a, not an oasis. It's a rest area on the Turnpike in New Jersey, just across from New York. What's it called? Vince Something? Right by the George Washington Bridge. See if I can find it here for you real quick. The Vince Lombardi Travel Plaza. And it looks like it fills up pretty quick. There's a ton of parking spots there, but I've been talking with my friend Moses, that you guys know. We met up with him this last summer, so you guys know he's got that nice Kenworth, right? And he's telling me, because he goes through there all the time, and he's telling me where to go, how to get in there, because I've got to get on to Long Island. It's gonna be a little bit tricky, because I'm not used to it, but I think I'll be fine. Just stay on the interstates, he says. Stay off the parkways. Those aren't for trucks. So, delivered to Cranford around 1-2 o'clock. Hopefully be unloaded there by like 3.30, and then it'll be like a half hour to an hour up to Vince Lombardi Travel Plaza. Be there around 4.35 o'clock, and hopefully at that time I can still find a parking spot there. We'll shut down for the night, wake up early in the morning, and head across the George Washington Bridge, through New York City, and onto Long Island to, uh, Ha Pog. I think that's how I pronounce it. Moses' wife Colleen has family who lives on Long Island, and they told her, who told me, that the way you pronounce the town that I'm going to is Ha Pog, Ha Pog, Ha Pog, not Ha Pog, H-A-U-P-P-A-U-G-E, Ha Pog. Feel free to correct me if I said that wrong. I gotta be there for a noon delivery day after tomorrow, so get that delivered, and then get out of the city, and go find somewhere nice and quiet to park, and we'll figure out what we're doing from there. I don't know where my reload is yet, maybe I'll find out tomorrow. But I'll know by then. I know it won't be in New York City, I'm pretty sure of that. I want to get away from there, so thanks for hanging out with me today. We drove 700 kilometers, or about 470 miles or so, and tomorrow will be about the same. I have about six and a half, seven hours of driving to Cranford, but at least we'll be on a regular schedule now, where we're getting up early and stopping early, so I don't have to worry about finding parking at the end of my day. Take care everybody, be safe out there, drive safe, and keep your head up.