Pilot: Laredo, TX

Today I did only a little driving, From McAllen, TX to Laredo, TX. We were able to sleep in this morning at the Red Roof, because our return load had been cancelled. The load we had coming down was simply empty dunnage, plastic used to hold car parts, which can be dropped off at any time. So after getting rid of part one in McAllen, we dropped the other three portions in Laredo. This really took very little time, and our new return load needs to be picked up tomorrow morning around 4AM, so we had a good part of the day open to us.

So after dropping our trailer in a drop lot, we went to find a movie theater. There was a fairly nice one not too far from where we were, it was still matinee prices ($6.25) and The Incredible Hulk was playing. The previews had made this out to be really good, and it truly was. This was almost as much fun to watch as Iron Man.

After the movie it was off to find a good place for dinner, hopefully somewhere that we had not been to before as individuals. We found an Italian Restaurant, Carino's Italian Grill, that was really good. Plenty of food at a reasonible price, and the service was excellent.

We are now plugged in to an IdleAire station at a Pilot Truckstop in Laredo. After a slow start it has cooled down the truck nicely, and is supplying electricity and television service to my trainers flat screen tv. The first thing we noticed was that all the fuel pumps were closed, apparently they sold out of fuel. The second thing we noticed was all the trash lying around. It looked like someone had upended a dumpster in the lot. The men's room was none to clean, which is really making us leary about taking a shower tomorrow morning. Hopefully by waiting, they will have had a chance to clean them really well prior to our using them. Right now they are just cleaning them quickly between uses.

Tomorrow after we pick up our delayed load we will team drive back up to Toledo so we can get back on Friday. A solo driver would take till sometime Saturday with this distance. Since tomorrow will start early, I need to get to sleep now, more enroute somewhere.