lots of driving.

i decided to drive home for the holidays this year, and then drive to lake Tahoe for new year's. when i made this plan i had weeks of free time without a set schedule. i even toyed with the idea of driving up to Oregon to drop Miriam off at school and then heading up to Spokane to see my nieces. Someone was kind enough to remind me that it was winter and that i was crazy. so i stuck to the Denver- SLC- Tahoe- SLC- Denver trip.
i have never been so obsessed with the weather and road conditions. Every few hours before i left Denver i was watching the storm move through Wyoming, tracking the I-80 road closures and chain requirements on I-70, wondering which way i was going to go to make it home alive. Everyone told me the problem was wind, more than snow, i didn't understand why until a few weeks ago. The wind was so strong and ti was so cold that there was a white out due to blowing snow, i col,d barley see the tail lights of the car in front of me. And then there was the snow storm i did hit in Evanston, snow packed roads and semis blowing past me! it was awesome.
the rest of the drives were uneventful, the storms that were predicted never materialized. i have never been so grateful for weathermen that were wrong! so, I'm done planning crazy road trips in the winter.