Well I woke up this morning in Bowling Green, MO around 5:00 AM. Walked over to the Hardee's for a sausage egg and cheese biscuit (the best there is) and an orange juice. After that I headed on down the road to St Louis, MO to make my first of what I thought were going to be 5 deliveries.
I arrived in St Louis at 7:30 and after checking in, I backed into the dock for them to unload. Of course while I waited I checked online for a Geocache in the area and sure enough there was one just 0.12 miles away. So I programmed the GPS receiver and went for a walk. Well, by the time I went around this warehouse and around that one, up this street and down that street, back around this fence and over to there, grab the cache and back again, it was about a mile! But that's OK. I don't mind the walk. I just didn't expect it to be that long!
Anyway, after unloading I'm back on the road by 10:00 heading west down I-70 towards Columbia, MO. Since I didn't get my sweet tea this morning because that Hardee's doesn't serve sweet tea, I was kinda thirsty for one. A few miles down the road in New Florence, MO I see a small truck stop with a McDonald's. So I decided to stop there for a sweet tea and since it was lunch time, go ahead and eat a burger.
But as I approached the exit I saw a new BBQ place that had just opened about 200 yards down from the truck stop. Well that sounds much better than a Big Mac, so BBQ it was. Called J & J's BBQ at I-70 exit 175. I got the sliced beef brisket platter with potato salad and green bean casserole. It was very good! I'll have to mark that place down in my book to remember. And they're clearing out some space out back for trucks to park too.
So back on I-70 westbound, I go past Columbia, MO where I'm delivering in the morning to Boonville to fuel up at the Pilot. Then about a mile from the HyVee grocery store for my delivery stop, I get a call from dispatch. They wanted to know if I'd be willing to switch loads with another driver who isn't able to complete his delivery on time. So I said sure and turned around back to a nearby truck stop along I-70 to make the trailer swap.
The other driver shows up around 4:30 PM and now I'm headed back to St Louis. Arriving at 6:45 PM, I check in and back the trailer to a dock. Grabbing the camera, I walk back down to the end of the street to take a photo of the street sign. I was on Fee Fee Rd which is the nickname I gave my younger sister Sophia during high school. So I had to send it to her.
Anyway, as it turns out I had to leave my trailer there so that they have a trailer for the next time we deliver. They were a new account and did not have an empty. By this time too, my clocks have expired and I'm parked out back behind their building.
Talked to my wonderful wife on the phone for a while and now it's bed time. See ya tomorrow and see ya on the road.
