We are only a few days into winter and already we have experienced more snow driving days than we did in all of last winter. Fortunetly, Kurt is a patient and practiced wintertime driver- so, except for some white knuckles, we have faired well.
Kurt was in Boston during one of their mid-December snowstorms. Here is the truck partially snowed-in....
We loaded out of Denver on 12/27- in another snow storm. Our load is yogurt- bound for Portland, Oregon. Here is the look out our window as we sat at the Denver loading dock......
As we headed north out of Denver, we were greeted by numerous signs stating the obvious....["ICY SPOTS, SNOWFALL, DRIFTING SNOW"]
And here is what drifitng snow looks like in Wyoming.....
We stopped over in Rawlins WY and this was our morning view. Blue sky, drifting snow and minus 7 degrees BEFORE you figure in the wind chill factor! (In this picture we are driving out of the parking lot-that is not the freeway road surface)
THIS is the freeway road surface- two black ribbons for hundreds of miles!
And sometimes it was foggy and icy and snowy all at once...
We made it through just fine- but here is just one of a half dozen trucks we saw that didn't make it though so well...
And sometimes it was foggy and icy and snowy all at once...
We made it through just fine- but here is just one of a half dozen trucks we saw that didn't make it though so well...
On Saturday afternoon we rounded the last curve on the notorius "Cabbage Hill" on I-84 in NE Oregon and we got our first view of the Columbia river gorge......and bare ground. Yay! smooth sailing the rest of the way to Portland!
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