Big Rig Steve started the day in Lincoln Illinois. Started rolling 9:00am CST up I-55 and then I-155 to Peoria IL, yes the former home of the Spirit of Peoria.
Yes, Spirit is History but you can get your very own greeting cards with professional image of the Spirit by our own tour guide Big Rig Steve at the store on the website Bigrigtravels.com and Calendars are 50% off while they last.
As we rolled out of Peoria on two lane backroads 10:10 CST we came across a parked vehicle on a gravel road of to the right. Waving out the window of that said parked vehicle was believed to be our very own Road Crew member Peggy Perk as the Blue Comet went past we greeted with the big air horn and waves from the 600 plus crew riding with along with Aunt J and Steve.
We arrived at Sterling IL ahead of our appointment time so a mini watch party started Steve answered chat questions while waiting for the 12:15 CST to enter the receiver for the live off load.
Delivery completed, Steve rolled on at 15:29 CST headed to Rochelle IL Loves to fuel up the trailer refer tank. Steve asked a trivia question “what is Big Rig Steve’s favorite coffee of choice” (or something close to that). Wait …Wait for it, yes answer was Southern Pecan which BRT has a bag in the truck at all times. As Steve climbed back in the Blue Comet a big “BRRR” (yes we are not in the south anymore) and checked off his acquired Coffee, Oreos and Hot dogs. We then worked our way over to I-39 and few miles up stopped at the Blue Beacon for trailer wash out. As we pulled in, the line was as far out as one could see… oh no. Luckily two wash bay lines and we strolled up like we owned the streaking beacon in the open lane to the trailer “wash out only” bay. Another question/answer session broke out during the washout. Which included history lesson how Steve in younger times would write out invisible messages on paper with lemon juice. Yes BRTRC Wally 3 USAFWR chimed in that he was up on this way of communication. You have to watch the stream play back to find out how one would read the message.
Next stop was the Loves in Monroe Center IL at 17:39 where we caught some beautiful sky as we went in for a splash of truck fuel. Yep afterwards we were down to 401 gallons away from attaining March Gold status for a new short month of February in which we are collecting our Diamond status bonus now all this month. Woo Hoo.
As far as Numbers – None of the Clocks count as we are going to time off and a full 70 hour reset. Traveled in Illinois today approximately 191 miles 307 km including delivery and preparation of the trailer for next trip.
Big Rig Steve ended the broadcast today at the home of the BRT Headquarters in Belvidere IL. An few miles prior to arriving at BRT HQ Steve asked everyone to start gathering up each ones stuff in the truck. As we all know Aunt J was not cleaning up after herself much less 769 road crew in the truck. BRS noted his very best friend Germany Jens on his YouTube would enjoy any of the crew watching him during BRT time off. As we arrived at the BRT HQ parking same as always when we reach time off Steve address us “ take care you all ! ” January 2023 season comes to an end.
BRT will return on February 6th you can watch the status bar on the web site starting Monday to see when we start, which all depends on where our trip loads as to when we would go live.
See you Road Crew when we roll again next week.
