Day 2 of a fairly uneventful trip.  

Well, getting passed on the shoulder this morning was interesting.  

Actually, yesterday, after getting to the plant at 5:45 am, getting loaded right away with no waiting and then going to the scale house and waiting over 2 hours for paperwork?  Well, I was a bit unhappy with that.  They have been taking longer and longer to get simple paperwork done.  There were 3 people ahead of me when I walked in, 1 of them left a few minutes later, 2 others were gone in 20 minutes.  

So, I asked if the COA wasn't in yet? No it's here, she's working on "something else". 

Hold on for a moment, I need to pull my truck up, a reefer just pulled up next to me and I refuse to listen to that noise all night long, I won't sleep.  I have no idea how those drivers can stand having that noise machine feeding that noise into their ears all  night long, nothing I want to deal with.  

Anyway, by the time I got out of there, I only had 10-1/2 hours left on the 14 hour clock.  I like to make this trip 3 days, not 4.  But I was able to get to the minimum distance I need to get in order to make this a 3 day trip - a truck stop, small one, in Barnhardt, MO.  There's a bar and grill next door, I usually go in and have some chicken wings.  

Today? Up at 4:45 am, off to the plant, where they did, of course, spend over 4-1/2 hours unloading. It's normal for that place. I haven't been there in a year at least as the other company got that contract and the only reason we get any of it is if the other company can't cover the loads going up to it.  

And I have no clue what this reefer driver is doing, he's moving back and forth and - what the hercules.  Hmm.  He pulled up, backed up, pulled up, backed up, pulled up, backed up - for what?  Ahh ok, so he stopped right next to me, the reefer unit shut off, but when it comes back on again, I'll pull up far so I don't have to tolerate that nonsense all night long.  It's always my fear whenever I park anywhere that one of those things is going to park next to me. Fortunately, I am in a huge field type of parking lot, no set spaces, I will pull up 20 feet if I have to to get away from that noise.  

So, today was a 16 hour day as I used my 16 hour exception to make it as far down the road as I could get.  I didn't want to wake up in the morning with near 600 miles to go.  I've got it down to 400 miles and I'm comfortable with that. I will have enough hours left to go to brownsville or Oklahoma, I'll take either.  My checking account is down the lowest I have seen it in years.  Never recovered from the great ice/snow event of Texas, SNOVID2021.  Now I'm not going to say being out on the road all of this time is all that wonderful, but neither is having an empty checking account.  

I heard nothing back from the realtor today and I am kind of taking a break from talking to her while I get this loan process going.  BUT, if I get home in time tomorrow, I"m going to the 11 acre property listed for 21k and find out if there is enough usuable property on it.  I don't care about easements and gas operations as long as they aren't that close to the intended area for the RV park.  I'd also like to go take a look at this house on 20 acres, but I doubt Ill have time for that.  The 8 acres isn't off the table, but I'm not going to deal with the owner's owner-finance terms. A rip-off, greed, just something I won't get myself into. I can't say that I'm desperate for property, but boy have I put a lot of time into looking around all over the place and coming up with nothing as far as results go.  

Such a beautiful property - but the monthly payments with his high interest rate and shorter length of the payoff date equals high payments that I am very much not interested in getting involved with.  This is why I started looking at acreage with houses on it.  Buy the property, rent the house, boom.  No out of pocket expense for the entire property.  Such a better idea - but there are few properties in the affordable range that I have seen.  Most of them are hundreds of acres with a huge house on it going for half a million and up.  This one just happened to show up on a real estate broker search that I hadn't looked at before. 

Well it's been a long day and I'm getting sleepy. Get up in the morning, finish this drive and go on to whatever is next. 

G'nite.