Up at 6:30 and on the road.  Got to go 285 miles for the first stop.   We have to leave this Pilot and hope there is another truck stop close by.   This one is under a water boil mandate so no coffee or ice for my Diet Coke. Need caffeine!

We were finally able to stop and get caffeine at about 9 am.    All is right with the world now so on we go.

We made it to Family Dollar about 15 minutes late.   There was a detour on the highway and the GPS kept making us go in circles until we finally were able to get on the right road.   Fortunately the load was a drop and hook so we got back on the road pretty quick and headed to Columbus Junction, Iowa for a load of meat to take to Lima, Ohio.   Clock is almost out of time so we won’t get too far tonight.

Got our pork skins, pork belly skins and pork fatback skins from Tyson and off we go.  Only got about an hour to go on the clock so we find an AmBest about 20 miles and park there for the night.   Sign outside said pizza, chicken, fish, so we were excited about the possibility of dinner.  Well, we got there after they had closed down the deli.   Lovely.   Another bologna sandwich night.     We have a busy day tomorrow.   Next stop is about 400 or so miles so a long drive.

DG:  Thought: ever wonder about the history of those cars and trucks you see rusting away in fields along the roads we travel?  Got to thinking about that the other day.  Saw an old, 40s maybe, flatbed truck sitting in a farmer’s field, about a hundred yards from his house, out behind the barn, out of the way, just rusting.  One could tell it had been there a while.  I tried to imagine it’s last trip, how it ended up there and the driver that parked it there and just walked away.  Never to return.  Was it grandpa?  Tired from a life of farming and hauling feed for his cows or corn to market.  Did he just decide to retire that day and not wanting to sell the truck just left it there at the end of his last day of working the farm?  Did he die?  No heir to take over so the truck just sat there?  Or did it just refuse to start one day so it was left where it stands today.  Perhaps the owner had the intent of fixing it someday, but just never got around to it.  We see so many vehicles end up like this.  Serving their purpose no one sees any worth in them any more so they are just left there to rust.  We do this to people as well.  Stick them in a home somewhere for strangers to watch after.  Just letting them rust.

Boy, that sure took a turn toward the morose.  Sorry about that.  Don’t know why I went there.

Driving leaves lots of time for introspection and imagination.  I have a lot more thoughts during the day but by the time we park and get to the blog I have forgotten most of them.  Will try to take verbal notes from now on so I will have something more to write about.

That’s all for now.  Hope all are well.  Good night and God bless.