Through the woods and into the river

to grandma's house I almost didn't go. It was ugly out there. It didn't start snowing bad until the 'point of no return' on 77 thru WV/OH (it meanders back and forth over the river) north of Marietta where there are no real towns and no place to pull off and get a hotel if it's really nasty. So of course that's when the snow gets really bad. That doesn't faze WV drivers so we have a huge line of traffice doing 70+ and the random moron doing 20 mph just to kill us all.

It was snowing so bad I thought I missed my exit (couldn't see them) so I stopped at a rest stop just to check the map. Got onto 70 and it was a parking lot. took an hour to go 9 miles. The problem? A truck had slid into the median...that's it. No flashy wreck, nothing on the highway and it was on the other side. AN hour of my life gone so morons could gawk.

After that it was smooth sailing home until I got onto the country roads to the house. Keep in mind there are no street lights, lanes so small that in many places you need to go one car at a time  and pull off the road to let others pass and now it's really snowing. I knew I was supposed to go to my uncle's at the base of the hill to call dad to get me in the 4X4. But I thought hell, I'm good in snow so up the monster hill to my parent's home I went.

Right off the road but I got back on it and made to the top. First thing Dad says 'You made it up the hill???'  You see my car. I didn't name him Snow Boy for nothing.

Now to survive Thanksgiving.

not bad

For someone who had to drive so much. I KNEW I should have had a tape recorder in the car because they chattered all the way home. And look, I FINALLY broke 40K

40,082 / 50,000 (80.2%)

Happy Thanksgiving

Hope everyone has a nice day. I'm hoping not to drown a relative in the gravy. I'm sure someone will tempt me. This is my first thanksgiving with the family in almost ten years. This is so not my holiday.