Sun, Jan 18... Snow Measured In Feet!

Maybe the cold weather has now left us... coffee brewing and a welcome 26 degrees this morning. With only 100 miles to drive, today should be a breeze!

As we were sitting in the truck, kicked back, drinking coffee, and enjoying the conversation... we were interuppted by a beep beep!

A preplan? That can't be... but with the second beep, we knew we had it. I anxiously grabbed the Qualcomm to see where we would be headed.... right back where we came from! The mapping part will be easy enough!

We meandered around a little and headed west on I-94. Not being in any big hurry we goofed off a lot this morning

Here are my "snow measured in feet" pictures.... click on the first one so you can actually get the right perspective of how much snow this part of MN has... this is a covered picnic table area at the rest area.






















Here I am with 10 feet of snow behind me. Simply put, there are snow piles everywhere in this state. Snow on top of snow.













And this is just to show you what the side roads, parking lots, and shoulders of the interstates are like. It's an inch or two of frozen icey mix.












Of course Trapper's loving life! The mountain man in him is wanting to come out! He seems in his element here...













We made it to Fargo and parked at a truck stop 5 miles from our delivery point in the morning. We have been preplanned to pick up a load tomorrow in Detroit Lakes, MN and deliver that load in Groveport, OH on Wednesday.

I'm glad we got this run, it's been interesting and I'm very tickled we are not still in the Pittsburgh or Baltimore area. With the president-elect whistle stopping it through there and the inaguration coming up... can you say HEADACHE! It's hard enough manuvering on a good day... much less with a couple of million extra lost people!

Here's a map of our next dispatch...

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