Bloomington, Illinois: TA

I am about two and a half hours away from my delivery tomorrow morning in Bettondorf, Iowa. It is a bit farther than I would like, but I would have had to stop before I got to another decent selection of truck stops. Some of the small independent truck stops can be quite nice, but there is no guarantee that it even exists. I have found at least three that were listed in my truck stop guide that are gone. Some are just closed up, and some have been bought out and converted to retail space. Then there is the second stop with this load tomorrow, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. After that I get to find out where I am going to next. I am going to try and keep running over the weekend, but that seems to be catch as catch can.

I did manage to cut my eating expense down today. They had a spaghetti special with salad for $4.99, and I didn't get my usual iced tea either, just water. I think the salad was almost as big as the meal, but that just means I am definitely full.

So far the new Verizon phone has been working out pretty good, and the blue tooth ear piece is able to handle the truck noise. So I can hear just fine, though apparently a lot of truck noise gets sent along as well. I might have to check out other head sets in the future, but for now this works. My sister mentioned that she has had difficulties with the battery life on Motorola phones in the past, and it seems like this one will be no different. The battery is half gone after taking it off the charger at around one this morning. My call volume hasn't been to excessive, but I had talked a bit. My old phone would not be this far down at this point in the day.

We should save a lot with my switching to my fiances' Verizon plan. Eliminating charged minutes just for the calls between the two of us will be good, but eliminating my calls to dispatch as well will really be great. I included them in my friends and family section. To get the friends and family for two phones we had to go with the 1400 minute plan, and we figure that the calls not included in the plan will use maybe a hundred minutes of that.

I will be hooking up to the Idle-Aire tonight, so should be extremely comfortable as all my electronics charge up.