It's Friday afternoon and we're in Grand Rapids, MN. These are the headwaters of the great Mississippi river. Amazing to see the difference up here in Minnesooota, and what it looks like down in Missouri.
Wednesday we finished up in Kansas City, MO. Then dropped our trailer at another customer, picked up another trailer at a Schneider lot and headed south to Harrisonville, MO to pick up laundry products destined for Menard's in Eau Claire, WI. We dropped the trailer and our next w/a was coming through.
Another driver got stuck behind an accident in Chicago and couldn't finish his w/a. He dropped his trailer in Eau Claire and we picked it up. The load was to deliver to 3 Sears catalog stores in Minnesoooota. The first drop was for 0800 and in Virginia, MN, 230 miles away from Eau Claire. Had to leave at 0400 this morning in order to make it. We made all the deliveries on time and were finished by 1300 in Grand Rapids, MN. I had indicated that when we were finished we had only 1 hour left to run. Didn't really want to keep going.
There aren't any truck stops in the area so we checked into the Itascan hotel and walked into town. We took the Mississippi river pictures and wandered through downtown GR.
The Old Central School built in the 1890's was the site for the Welcome Anglers party. Tomorrow is the opening of the fishing season and the city is packed with fisher people and their boats.
There's the Funny Lady in front of the Blandin Foundation. It's an old philantropic organization providing grants, scholarships and community support in rural Minnesoooota.
We're done for Friday and 4 days left till TAH, we'll see what comes up tomorrow.
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