My Fun Day

Well, the nap didn't work out so well. I don't know what it is, but I can't nap. I might doze for a few minutes here and there, but not a full nap. That's so wrong since I really don't have any distractions. I have found out anytime I do try to do a nap, my phone will ring, someone will stop by, OR..a cat will break something. Yeah.
So I went for option B... happy hour :)

So where do I start with my drive? First, if some of you remember, the airport is 2.5 hours away. If you add on bad weather, which I did, you're looking at about a 3.5-4 hour drive, one way. So, the plan was to get up around 5ish. I don't usually fall to sleep until about 2ish. Great plan.
Another problem for me is that I don't keep any clocks in my bedroom, so when I know I HAVE to get up early for something important, my body doesn't sleep well. It keeps waking up 'just in case'. So needless to say, I barely slept.

Our driveway was an ice skating rink as we left, and it started snowing. There's one main road out of our town and you have to cross railroad tracks to get out. So at 6am, there was a train sitting on the tracks. Not MOVING, sitting. Hrmph.
We waited for about 10 minutes and then decided we had to think of something else. We do have a back road into another small town, but the key words are 'back road'.. which in another language means, 'not plowed'. We opted to go that way.

It wasn't horrible but just slow. When you're trying to make a flight, slow is not the first choice. We do make it back to the main highway and begin our journey. Just as we are about into Idaho, the weather really starts. Very heavy snow, white-out conditions, darkness, you name it. I couldn't see the road or tell what lane I was actually in. It wasn't very fun. The only thing that kept me at least ON the road was the rumble strip every time I hit it. Ugh.. bad news.

So.. as I'm going along at about 30mph on a 70mph highway, out of the corner of my eye I see a Moose on the side of the road. Moose was contemplating whether to cross or not. There was NO way I could have hit my breaks. I just prayed that Moose would decide to turn around. He did. Sigh. Can you imagine me hitting a moose? eeks.

It didn't start getting light until I was already almost into Washington, so it was just a long, nerve-wracking, slow drive. I was really worried whether I'd even get them to the airport on time. Luckily, I did. Come to find out, because of the weather, she was delayed an hour so for both her flights.

I turned around to come home, just to basically hit the same weather home, but as I got back into Idaho I wound up behind the snowplow. Pretty cool to follow him in, and we did pass several cars on the side of the road spun out. We saw the same thing on the way in. Just a mess.
As you saw in the previous post, the snowplow pulled over for two cars that had spun off the road. The car on the left had two elderly people stuck in their car sideways. Guess all went well, except I lost my plow leader. Again, the roads were very messy and slow and I just glided home at about 30 mph. Yeah, I took photos, but it's not like I was moving very fast.

Oh and I have to say I'm extremely impressed with my car. I only mildly skidded a few times. The car did great.
Oh and I don't usually vent too often on here.. but here's one.

People who feel they grew up in snow, or THINK they can drive in it, and plow behind people who are careful, or new to it, at 70mph and ride their ass, that's just crap. And I'm using nice words. Three different episodes I had someone, usually in some big truck with a snowplow on it, ride up behind me so fast and just sit there.
Now, I'm no ninny, I was staying with most of the traffic. For someone to do that, to me is so reckless and rude.
Worse is when this idiot decides to pass you, gliding on slush by your side throwing snow up on your car and windshield when you already couldn't see. Ugh.

Yes, butthead was the nicest term I could come up with :)

So, that was my day. I came home. I didn't leave again. I tried to sleep, couldn't, and now I have beer in hand.