Good luck and hope you get home safe. Not looking like too good of WX for your trip home.
Wx actually turned out pretty good. It sure beat the trip out, when it took me 4 hours to go 30 miles from the CA-NV line through Donner Pass. One wreck involving a CHP officer stopped traffic for two hours, and then the chain requirement went into effect...
ill be driving to wisconsin dells on sunday with the family via I90. will look out for you!
Wrong part of I-90... I was on 90 heading from Chicago to Madison.
I'm sacrificing chickens for you to appease the weather gods so that you may have clear driving all the way home for Christmas! Be safe and talk to you soon!
Wow... It worked!
So, I didn't make it home until about 5 PM on Christmas. I had 2408 miles to go from where I dropped off on Friday to get to Chicago, drop the trailer, and go home. The original plan split that into three 800-mile days, but... Well, I was kinda tired Friday night and there's really not much of anywhere to stop between Cedar Creek, UT and Richfield, UT and there's 110 miles between the two. As tired as I was at Cedar Creek I'd have been hating life if I tried to push on to Richfield. Total distance Friday: 715 miles. So, that left me with two 850-mile days to make it home.
Next day, kinda the same story. 850 miles can be done on flat, dry roads if you have the patience (I'm governed at 65mph). However, I was doing lots of up and down, round and round. I climbed over 10,000 feet twice: Vail Pass (10,668 feet) and the Eisenhower Tunnels (11,158 feet). That takes a lot out of ya. I fueled up in Denver, pushed it to Big Spring, NE just across the line from CO. 760 miles.
Sunday, I finally got the long boring day I wanted but I'd started out with over 900 miles to go. Ugh. I went from Big Spring to Peru, IL. 720 miles for the day, leaving me with 213 plus a drop and hook for Christmas. That's OK though... We're kind of waiting for my brother to get home from Sweden on Saturday before we really do Christmas, and I also made my bonus miles for the year which is worth over $1900. Hmmm, maybe it's time for a 496.
BTW, Chicago traffic sucks even on Christmas!!!
There was a big backup on the inbound Stevenson. Luckily, my exit was right before the backup. Sheesh.