It has been a while since I have been in this truck stop, and it is as big as ever. The number of different lights, chrome pieces, and other dodads that one can buy for a truck will never cease to amaze me, and I think they have at least one of every one of them here. The parking lot is enormous and it is at least a quarter mile from the restaurant to the service department, with fuel pumps and a truck wash in between the two.
I dropped my trailer for the night at a shop in Rock Island, Illinois. I will be picking up a food load tomorrow heading for Newark, Delaware, and I can't have any leaks in the trailer. I found out at my first stop this morning that the door seals were leaking a bit, and those can be a chore to replace. Unfortunately the shop here declined to do them due to a lack of parts and a fear that there might be more damage they aren't equipped to deal with underneath. So a half hour drive and I drop the trailer for it to magically become fixed for me tomorrow. It is actually fairly close to the route I was going to take to my pick-up tomorrow in Fort Madison, Iowa.
The only bad thing is that I ended up sitting most of today and will be picking up at noon tomorrow, so will have wasted a full day of driving by the time I get the load. Then the load doesn't deliver until Monday morning, so I have plenty of time to get it there. Swinging by the house would be possible, but would take me out of route. I might spend a night in Columbus again. It will just depend on how far I can drive Friday after I get the load.
Dinner tonight was the buffet, a bit more than I needed but I didn't feel like anything else on the menu.
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