Winter Has Arrived!

It's official...winter has arrived in the west and we had the wonderful privilege of traveling back to Montana through some of it.  We left PA on Wednesday morning around 11 and the first part of our trip went by without a hitch.  It was nearing midnight and Jamie had just got back behind the wheel when it started snowing.  He drove till sometime in the early morning when we decided to stop off at a truck stop and let the plows do their job.  We started again in the morning and drove for less than an hour when Jamie decided the roads were too icy to continue.  We narrowly missed an accident with a tractor-trailer as we watched it slide across the lanes as we drove up the off ramp.  Thanks to some help from my Mom, we were able to find a decent hotel that allowed the dogs inside and we spent a restful day together, enjoying the snow from inside.  I'm thankful that Jamie was driving smart and felt it was better to wait until the roads were better because the "scenery" along the road the next day had changed drastically from farms and trees to a snowy junkyard of cars and trucks...and we weren't one of them!

These 2 trucks must have had a mishap with the icy roads.  What you can't see so well in the first picture was the truck laying on it's side is actually a cattle pod...the picture below is a better picture of the truck.  There is another cattle pod waiting behind the red truck...it makes me wonder how many livestock actually made it.  Poor guy who owned whatever was in there will be out a few head I think.

I also tried to get a few pictures of the beautiful snowy landscape we had a chance to see along the way.  I still love snow...even if it does coup us up in a hotel room for a day.

I'm happy to say we made it home safe and sound around 9pm Friday night to temperatures in the negatives.  Our pit stops along the last leg of our trip were short and sweet because after 0 degrees the outside of your nose isn't the only thing that freezes!  At one point the temperatire gauge in the truck read -0...is there such a thing?  Keep posted for more chilly blogging from the Tumbleweeds.