Sales trip and one big blizzard.

I made a sales trip to Wyoming this week. 1250 miles round trip. Day 1 I went to Gillette. Nice town. Gillette is the coal mine capitol of the world. Above is a couple of pictures of the smallest mine up there. Day 2 I drive to Rock Springs, not a bad drive. Day 3 is where things get good. I leave Rock Springs just before 9:00 am. I'm on I-80 going east, not a bad drive until I get to Laramie. It starts snowing like crazy and there is 50 mph cross wind. At times I can only see about 50 feet other times it goes to complete "white out". I make it to Cheyenne at about noon. I should go find a hotel and spend the night, but do I? NO!!!! Thanks to my brother Henry and "The Big Wheel incident" which is a whole other story, I DON"T HAVE ANY COMMON SENSE.

So I start south on I-25. The radio said the highway is going to close at any time. I keep going. I get to about 1/2 mile short of the exit I want to take and traffic comes to a dead stop. I sat in the same spot and did not move an inch for 2 hours. I was getting worried as I listened to the radio some people were calling in and had not moved in 4 hours.

Well traffic started moving and I got to my exit. I was going 10 mph and glad to be moving. I still had a 2 hour ride to get home. I saw so many cars and trucks in the ditches and road side abandoned that I quit counting.

I made it home. The official snow fall total in Parker is 37"

I love big blizzards!!!!!