The end. Belated.

My apologies to everyone. I've been bad. Haven't let everyone know that we made it home in one piece.

Mea Culpa. Mea Culpa.

I just lose interest when I'm home and don't follow up.

Anyway.

Arrived home after three days of white knuckle driving from Savannah to Denver.

Left Savannah in the fog and it was pretty dreary all the way to Atlanta and thru Alabama and Mississippi to Memphis. The highlight for me was a drive thru on the interstate of Macon and Warner Robbins, Georgia where I was stationed in 1970 after Gaddafi and the military overthrew King Idris and tossed us off of Wheelus Air Force Base outside Tripoli.

Warner Robbins AFB is where I met my now 43 year long friend Gerard "Joe" Depoti, who visited me in Italy a couple years ago. Was great getting even a momentary glimpse of the town where we had so much fun and decided to volunteer for Turkey, cause there was no country called Chicken when threatened with a tour in Viet Nam. (It would have been Joe's second).

We experienced yet another Garmin moment outside Montgomery Alabama. "Turn Right. In one block Turn Right. In one block Turn Right. Proceed straight ahead", while getting on the countries finest not used interstate highway. Highway 78 AKA Future I-22. Great road that goes thru nowhere (Actually three states).

Got to Memphis late and cold. 40's with an outlook of freezing morning rain.

Had some Memphis B-B-Q at Top's (it wasn't, but not bad). And called it a night.

Got up the next day. Had a instant Garmin moment. (Turn Right,etc.) Finally got out of town and drove thru the 31 degree rain all the way to Little Rock where it got serious about the ice.

The roads, honestly, weren't that bad, but we saw several accidents in town (none after that). Those folks just don't do well with ice and snow.

Anyway, here's a shot that Kathy took of the trucks antenna somewhere in Arkansas.

The truck hood looked like that as well.

Finally into Oklahoma where the roads were in great shape. Such great shape that we continued on past OK City. OKC was supposed to have snow but by the time we got there the roads were dry and we decided to drive another couple hours to Wichita to cut our last drive down by a few hours.

Smooth, dry roads all the way into Kansas. Until we got off the turnpike outside Wichita.

Total catastrophe. Two inches of snow and falling pretty heavily. We got there right a 5PM so we had to contend with rush hour and roads that hadn't been prepped at all.

35 minutes to drive thru Wichita (normally 10) and finally had to call it a day and found a hotel room in the northern suburbs.

Left town the next morning around 7:30 and four wheeled it on snowpacked and icy I-135 all the way to Salina. Lots of abandoned cars along the road. About 20 miles west of Salina I-70 magically changed from partly snowpacked to barely snowpacked to dry all the way to Aurora.

Good to be back home, although I could have done without the 5 or so inches of snow to shovel.

That's it. Thanks for reading.

Good night and I had terrific luck.