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06-21-2012, 12:13 PM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Rising Fawn
Posts: 353
M.O.C. #11268
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Can you sleep at...
A truck stop?
I thought "no way," until I was headed home from a trip to Mississippi last year. I stopped at the Kewanee Truck Stop on I-59 for lunch and thought I'd just climb into bed and read for a few minutes before I proceeded to the house. Trucks all around me... BRRRR-R-R-Rrrrrrr! Udn-udn-udn-udn....
Next thing I knew, I woke up THREE hours later! Trucks still all around me... BRRRR-R-R-Rrrrrrr! Udn-udn-udn-udn.... Slept great!
P.S. I'll highjack my own thread here by saying that the Kewanee Truck Stop has the BEST doggone beans I've ever eaten; big chunks of pork in it, and yummy! It's at the last exit off I-20/59 before crossing into Alabama.
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06-21-2012, 12:54 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Belvidere
Posts: 1,834
M.O.C. #185
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I've used truck stops many times for a quick nap or a quick stop for an overnighter. Problem is getting in late often times there are no spaces left - especially if they have designated RV parking spaces. Just remember and show proper etiquette by not blocking any truck access or putting out slides and taking up 2 or 3 spaces.
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06-21-2012, 02:06 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Vancouver
Posts: 1,284
M.O.C. #11675
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You must have been tired!
Sorry Pat, but now all I can think of with your beans is a revised version of you in Blazing Saddles - couldn't resist
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06-21-2012, 02:24 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Salem
Posts: 7,528
M.O.C. #2283
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A good bowl of beans with a hamburger and a biscuit hard to beat, no impossible.
Country folk.
Lynwood
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06-21-2012, 02:55 PM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Rising Fawn
Posts: 353
M.O.C. #11268
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Brrrffffttt! Pat only pawn... in game of life.
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06-21-2012, 03:01 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Vancouver
Posts: 1,284
M.O.C. #11675
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Quote:
quote:Originally posted by patbarton
Brrrffffttt! Pat only pawn... in game of life.
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06-21-2012, 03:34 PM
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Site Team
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Wilsey
Posts: 18,799
M.O.C. #11455
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We've stayed at a few Flying J's when the need arose, only really bad nights sleep was at one in OK. Wasn't the trucks, it was a cold front that came thru and dropped the temp 40 degrees and we woke up in the middle of the night freezing to death. That said, we have since decided to stay in campgrounds whenever possible. Avoids the worry of someone taking our steps off by accident etc.
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06-25-2012, 02:33 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Land O Lakes
Posts: 2,783
M.O.C. #10246
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With the shrinking number of rest stops along the highway, it is nice to have options along the way....
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06-25-2012, 05:29 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Copperas Cove
Posts: 1,426
M.O.C. #12096
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I don't mind their diesels and reefer units running if they don't mind my generator lol lol..... But no they don't keep me awake. Went to sleep in a Walmart parking lot once and woke up in the morning surrounded by big rigs idling, never heard them.
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06-26-2012, 05:18 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Goshen
Posts: 1,058
M.O.C. #2827
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I love your "Pat sez..." quotes, Pat!! LOL! Every one of'em are thought provokers!!
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06-26-2012, 12:39 PM
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Established Member
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Green Bay
Posts: 22
M.O.C. #12116
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I'm a retired trucker, so I'm very familiar with truckstops. If it's a crowded one at night, I'll let the working man have the space. Years ago, when the truckstops restaurants were most all independently owned and operated, you could get some excellent food. Now, like a lot of America, the fast food giants are your only choices to eat. Many truckers are good people. They may be tired and ornery, for good reason. Just give them the 'right of way' on their truckstop turf. Pat, I would love to run into you sometime. You make me laugh.
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06-27-2012, 04:19 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Murrieta
Posts: 5,816
M.O.C. #9257
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I'd prefer to run into Pat before the beans, otherwise I'll run over her afterwards. Can't have that.
I love truck stops no matter what. I provide all the respect to the trucker's first, of course but can enjoy what the truck stops have to offer. Their stores have some of the best gadgets for travelers and I don't think their prices are all that bad. I do not like that many of the eateries have been sold out to the big chains, but if there's a non-chain eatery, we'll get something just because.
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06-27-2012, 11:13 AM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Alexandria
Posts: 352
M.O.C. #12394
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I too, can sleep like a baby at a truck stop. I will only stay at one if the RV spots in front are open. As the son of a trucker and a CDL driver myself, I KNOW the importance of leaving the truck parking spots open for the drivers who need them. And with the electronic log books become more and more prevalent, drivers are having less choice in where they stop for their breaks. But I digress. A hummin' Cummins is my lullaby.
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