I CAN'T MOVE my van, Surround by truckers, disturbing evening at the traveler centre/ SOLO van life

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I was surround by truckers. Disturbing evening at the traveler centre/ SOLO van life across Canada
I don't know if you can tell but he's got a giant truck parked right right beside in front of my car.
So I'm parked at the truck stop. I thought that I was parked in where the car goes and I didn't
want to be right right beside the actual office if you want where the restaurant is and the gas
station because I thought that you know people coming in middle of the night get some gas. I
didn't want to be like you know take those place and it's got a which seems to be really that car
but I think car parking and I was parked there everything was good and I heard like one truck
coming in a second and like third and this one parked like one inch and I cannot back up I cannot
move. I think they're just going at the restaurant or grab some snack. I don't know if they're going
to sleep here. It's not a big deal if they do. I mean I was really like my lights was on and off
sorry and I was just to go to bed and I heard that truck I'm like okay maybe I should move maybe I'm
not in a right area and right where I was thinking that putting my sweater on and I saw that big
truck and I was like okay apparently I'm not going to move because that truck took place and I always
try to be respectful when I'm in the truck area. I know this is dark parking if we know if we are
allowed to I always try to go in an area where I'm not going to be in the way but I think right now
the problem is like this gets so much snow right here in this town that they are pretty cramped
like the whole parking in the back where the trucker are is just packed like one beside the
other. I didn't even go look if I could park there. I was just like I'm gonna go right here where it
seems to be like only car in Otago would be only car but apparently not. So I'm gonna wait a little
bit see if this guy moves. If he moves I'm gonna move my van to maybe a little bit better place
so I'm not in their way and they can park there and do the thing. If he stays there for the night
I cannot do anything. I have to be there for the night too which is okay. It's not a big deal. I
don't mind but yeah it is a very very busy place. Truck everywhere. I don't know if I'm gonna have
a good night's sleep. This is what you have to expect sometime when you're at a trucker stop.
Yeah so yeah this is the truck that's parked right in front of me. I think this is a street
so a bunch are parked there and you're not gonna be able to see but behind me it's got a huge
parking lot when they are like packed right beside each other. Very busy and like you can tell a lot
of snow. All right the trucker just left so I'm gonna go park just behind here where it's got a
bit more car and where the trucker cannot go because of the gas station. All right I don't
know if you can tell but this is the amount of trucker in the back there all piled up beside
each other. So we're gonna sleep here. It's gonna be way better. Trucker start to leave. I had a
truck parked right there last night and one boy behind me. So yeah today we start number
four of this road trip already guys.
It's been a nice drive. Really dry. He had the snow melt so yesterday and today I'm not gonna start
early because all that snow that melt just turned to ice in the morning and I don't want to drive in
those conditions. So I've been taking my morning super easy and there's a shower here at this
truck stop so I think I'm gonna have a shower. I think I need it. It's a trucker shower so usually
they are on like eight dollars or on that price which is okay. No big deal and yeah I'm not sure
how much driving. I've been doing around like five six hours every day of driving. I've been feeling
it a little bit to be honest. At least we are in Ontario with like a little bit more things to look
when we drive at least. But yeah as long as the drive is like dry, dry road, blue sky, I love it.
It's been great so far. I've been very very very lucky. So I'm gonna enjoy my cup of tea and my
bagel and we're gonna try to get a shower here after that. All right I'm gonna go have a shower.
All right guys, I'm sorry Kenny. I forgot to bring you guys. I was charging my phone here and I didn't
want to bring my big camera. But a nice shower. Always clean. I love truck stops for that.
They always clean the shower and I even have like a shower head like you know like the one
really on top. Like a big square one. I don't know what you call it. But great. Warm. That's what we want.
So we're gonna go put some gas and we're gonna start driving. And today we are driving all the
way probably to uh Thunder Bay. I'm kind of like looking forward. Like not that I think it's
beautiful Thunder Bay. Not that I think it's ugly either. Like it's just a name that I know
that it's in Ontario. And it's kind of almost like even I've never been there.
I feel like I'm getting closer and closer and closer from my parents house which is great.
All right let's go to Thunder Bay. So we just changed time zone. This is the last time zone
going through. I changed three times the time zone right now. So that was the last one. The east one.
Feeling a little bit tired. We are close to Thunder Bay I think. Maybe another hour or so.
Hopefully. It's quite a little bit boring drive. It's just trees and snow.
It is some lake but I cannot see them because they are just covered with snow.
Which obviously I knew before going this road trip that I would not see so much
of the lake and all of this because of the snow. But and it's just like a one lane to highway which
is kind of a little bit annoying for that part. But I think after Thunder Bay it will change a
little bit different. But we're gonna see all those lakes and all everything that I missed
because it's covered of snow when we're gonna come back at the end of the summer or around
like September or something like this. Yeah a lot of snow still on the ground.
So I think I'm gonna sleep here tonight. That seems to be the limitation for the car section
and that's gonna be the truck and on the opposite side. This side here has got a bunch of truck too.
So I think that's the best way to park for tonight. Oh guys it's been a long day on the road.
But let's see how much distance we did today and how much we still have to do.
So we start our day a distance between Dryden to Nipijohn. I think that's what it's called here.
Let's see. So we did five hours today. Not bad. Not bad. I must admit that's probably
one of the first days since I started this road trip that I'm quite tired today.
I've been doing some five six hours of driving every day but today was
felt like I've been driving forever and ever and ever and I was tired. But we did good.
We did good. Let's see how much distance we still have to Quebec.
Quebec city. We still have 19 hours. A little bit less than 19 hours which is good.
It's good. So if we do five hours a day, 19 hours, we should be there in less than four days.
All right. I'm pretty close to go to bed to be honest but I'm gonna do one phone call to my
parents. They don't know that I'm coming by the way. They think that I'm coming way later on during
the summer. But I want to see if the maple syrup start. I'm pretty sure it started but I want to
kind of assess. Hopefully we're gonna make it on time to show you that. If you don't know my
father's got a maple syrup shack with my neighbor. So I think we're gonna have time to see like
usually it's for a week or two long the maple syrup. But yes some year you know it's different
too. But let's check this out with them and see if everything is good in Quebec.
Oui, allo. Oui, salut. Ca va? Ca va. Ca va?
That's so funny. I think my parents know some stuff sometimes. They were like so you trip uh
you when when you think you're gonna come here? That's so funny. And uh obviously I didn't tell
them. I just like some sometime this summer. Sometime this summer. And uh I asked about the
maple syrup and my father said they done a little bit of boiling the water. Which I'm gonna explain
everything where we're gonna be there. But they slowly started maple syrup. But they don't he
doesn't think that's gonna be really good this week. So we're good. We're good. We're gonna be
probably most likely on time. Which make me happy. So me and Katie. Which Katie is already in bed.
We're gonna go to bed. We're gonna relax. I'm gonna try to do a bunch of driving tomorrow.
And probably take it a little bit more easy around Ottawa maybe. And all those places
before we head Quebec. But tell them I will see you guys and let you with Katie. Which she doesn't
she just sleep. She was like sleeping on the bed all day when I was driving. You could see
her in the back mirror. Now she's sleeping over there. Yes.
You cannot find so much so much place to walk or so much snow. And she's lazy lately. This winter
she's been very lazy. She just want to chill inside the van. But maybe in the next couple
days we're gonna try to find a good place to walk. That could be cool. So much snow here though.
All right guys. See you in the next video. Oh little kisses. Thank you.
