Home Again, Home Again...

Wonderful Guy and I decided to make the trip from Vegas to home in one day.

It was a good plan, and started pretty well. It's a long trip for one day for me...about 800 + miles. I don't do that so well any more without some psyching up for it. But it meant not spending another night in a Super 8 (after the JW Marriott honeymoon suite, one gets a bit spoiled....no chocolates on the pillow at the Super 8!). It meant a whole day at home before starting work (and who knows what that is going to hold for me...).

So we got up at 5, headed out at 6, and made really good time. Looked like we were going to make it home by 7-ish, MT...until the sign said I-70 closed at MM126 just past Glenwood Springs.

Actually, that wasn't so bad. We drove around Glenwood a bit, took a rest stop, looked for a coffee shop, then noticed east bound traffic was being let through. Maybe a thirty minute break, maybe less. Westbounders weren't as lucky as us.

However...I think the rain we had in Vegas became snow in the mountains. Winter driving conditions, holiday traffic, and perhaps some end of the day ski traffic combined to make driving very, very dicey. We say one accident involving collisions, and a few involving sliding off the road. There was an hour and a half drive from Frisco to the Eisenhower Tunnel. That's five miles. I am not sure one could call it a drive, really....

Yep. It was pretty much a parking lot out there. I am very grateful that Wonderful Guy handles that sort of thing serenely.

Down the other side, into Denver, and up north to home...where there is no snow, temps above freezing...and a world apart!

Desert in the morning, blizzard at supper, and typical fall weather at home....way late at night!