6:30 am.   Time to get up and head west.   We slept with the windows open last night and at some point Greg closed one of the windows because he was freezing.   I like getting cold and snuggling under the blankets but he said his head gets too cold. Haha.   In his defense too it is 43 degrees this morning.     It’s a little cloudy this morning but doesn’t look like rain.    Hope we miss the storms out west.  

Such a pretty river snuggled in the hills.  

DG:  You’re right. Youngstown isn’t very far from White Haven, PA.  Seems that the government has interjected itself one more time to stifle American commerce.  You see, in the old days diesel trucks were very simple. They used fuel made from oil. It burned in the cylinders and the left over gases came out the exhaust. It was smelly but non-toxic. Actually rather clean for fossil fuel exhaust.    But people just can’t seem to leave things alone. Government people that is. So they came up with a system that uses a filter to catch the particulates and a fluid to aid in the conversion of those particulates into something they determine less toxic than clean air. And some of you may remember when diesel fuel was less expensive than regular grade gasoline. Well those days are long gone due to more government involvement requiring all diesel fuel be made of a percentage of biodiesel, soy beans. That runs the cost up significantly. And on top of that with the additional hardware required on the vehicles and you have more cost added. Which brings us to our present situation.  Yesterday I got a check engine light on my dash. Googled what it meant and found instructions on how to obtain a code that would identify the problem. Code indicated there was either something wrong with the exhaust system or a sensor within the system going bad. Truck was running okay so I was guessing it was the sensor. Not trusting my limited Diesel engine knowledge I call KLLM road breakdown. Apparently they have prior knowledge of this problem and instructed me to try something to determine definitively if there was a real problem. Real problem confirmed we were routed to the closest Freightliner repair shop. That’s how we ended up in Yoingstown. Four hours later, we are still waiting.  

5 pm.  Headed to motel.   Truck hasn’t even been in the shop yet and they don’t know when they will get to it.   So, off we go.   We have until tomorrow evening to get the load to Illinois so we should be ok if truck is ready to go in the am. 

6 pm.  Ordered pizza and settling in.    Watching the weather it looks like our little delay may be a blessing in disguise with all the horrible storms and tornadoes in Indiana and Illinois.   I saw where they even had one in Kentucky.   Glad we are staying put tonight.   

We went to get a Diet Coke to go with the pizza and when we came back in we couldn’t find Precious.   Then I noticed the lump.   I guess I have the air set too low for her.  Haha 

10:30 pm.  Turning in.  Hoping they call early.   Goodnight y’all.