Up at 6 am and headed to Sioux City.   Sun is just starting to come up.

Got to our stop this morning and it’s first come first serve to unload.  Great.   So much for the 7 o’clock appointment time. Apparently that’s when everyone’s appointment is.   We are 4th In line.  One guy has been here since 5 pm yesterday.

It took them 6 1/2 hours to get to us and get us unloaded.   Over half of Greg’s driving time spent waiting.

Sioux City was a small place.   A lot of trains, grain storage and mills and a meat place.   Apparently, this area is known for some corn but a lot of soy beans.

Also, this is the place where Sergeant Floyd died.  He was a man from Kentucky who was on the trail with Lewis and Clark.   They think he died of appendicitis.   He is buried where the Floyd River and the Missouri river come together.  They have a really tall monument for him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Floyd_%28explorer%29

Now we are off to Worthington, Minnesota for a load of meat to take to Lenoir, North Carolina.

Well, we aren’t headed for North Carolina tonight.  Got the trailer and it has a flat tire.   What is it with tires this week?   Got to tire shop and getting it fixed but it looks like we are stuck in Worthington for the night.

DG:  This is one of the first places we came when Annie joined me on the road. It’s warmer now than it was then but not much as it is still very windy.

Got the tire fixed. Wasn’t really the tire but the wheel. Someone had hit something really hard and dented the rim to the point the tire lost air and became separated from the wheel.  Now my tandems won’t slide so I have to take it to the repair shop next door to the truck stop in the morning and get that fixed. Beginning to look like they don’t maintain their trailers very well.

That’s it from the heartland. Good night and God bless.