I am so ready to have this trip over with.  I have a little over 7 hours left on the 70 hour clock - I have 304 miles left to go. That's about 5 hours in a truck - almost all of it is Interstate driving but there's a few towns that slow you down pretty good.   But, Jackson,  MS is only 20 miles down the road and I can get through there before all their version of a rush hour occurs. For a town that size, they have a pretty terrible rush hour going. 

I did 652 miles today.  I could have gone another 70 or so, but there isn't anywhere to stop besides Jackson and those truck stops are always full, just not worth the hassle.  I'm in Morton, MS and it's a truck stop I used to come to when I was doing that job based in Jackson. They have trucks going into the Koch plant here frequently.  That is a job I definitely don't miss. It's a dump of a truck stop, but there is a restaurant and the cooking is divine.  I have been very good about eating the food I brought with me - in fact, I ate all 4 dinners plus sandwiches.  So, a freshly cooked pork chop with some amazing lima beans - I'd love to know what they did to cook those absolutely delicious!

Anyway, after tomorrow it will have been 8 straight days out on the road and that's far more than I want.  The Palm Pennsylvania only comes around like once a month and I haven't had to do it in at least a year, I'm hopeful it's at least another year before I have to do it again.  There is one other, much longer run, tho, that I would love to do again, that state of Washington run I did once.  That one should be coming up near the end of summer - they take one load per year.  I mean, I didn't much like being gone that long - it's over 4,000 miles round trip, but some of the views in some of the states you go through to get there are amazing. 

Okay, well I can get up as early as 3 am to get this over with - but I am not getting up at 3am lol. Not because I don't want to - tho I don't really want to lmao - but because I don't want to get back too early to ruin potentially 2 full days off. It's only 34 hour reset.  If you get back late enough, you are guaranteed two days off.  If you get back early, you may get sent out the second day on a late load. 

And I just heard from another driver that we are being run constantly - like get back from a run and go straight back out the next morning.  These are times that get really old, but, manageable on shorter runs.

Kim and Maria have found a house, apparently. The man that owns it doesn't want "Great Danes" so I'm going to have to discuss with James and Taylor about taking care of my doggies while I'm gone. This guy will allow my Aspyn - the German Shepherd - but Addler and her being separated isn't a great idea. Finding a house here has been a real chore. There was one that was definitely available, a run down shack, pile of crap wanting $750.  Whatever happened here, rentals suddenly became all kinds of popular. 

This only fuels the fire for me to want to start up that mobile home park. Get that thing going honey,there is money to be made!  I'm really thinking I should at least try acquire a business loan.  What's the harm in looking around? Land, infrastructure installation and improvements.  Buy some older homes - in good condition thanks not talking slum lord here - rent them out. Have Taylor do the bookkeeping for me - she already offered and probably James would help with repairs, pay him hourly rate to go deal with stuff. 

I'm never going to get that thing going without a substantial loan.  That's all I can say about it at least at this point in time.  I'm not getting any younger, if they need some sort of education credentials to get the loan then I'll have to consider 2 years online school to get it.  BA in business, I assume or something similar.  I am going to start looking around at least.

I think I'll quit here. Go to bed early and get up early.  Just not 3 am version of early lol.