Over at Conversation Club Chatter we have been sharing stories about our Christmas or Hanukkah present and past. Brings back some great memories...
Christmas time travel, how well I remember the adventures we had in our Minnesota trips through the years. I cringe at the thought of one especially dangerous drive in about 1985 (I'd have to check diaries to be exact). We started out from Indianapolis around 6:30 am during a sleet and ice storm with the temp right at 32 degrees - all the way to Lafayette we saw semis and cars in the ditches. This was before the Interstate 39 was built, so we always drove through Chicago - by the time we hit there it was snowing and the temps were dropping with each mile northward. By the time we finally pulled into my folks driveway around 10 pm that night it was 35 degrees below zero with a windchill of around 50 below. For the next 3 days, no one's car would start - even with engine block heaters and batteries removed and brought inside to warm up. The next day was Christmas and it had heated up to around 10 degrees so that the cousins could all finally get out of the house and go sledding!! Then, to add insult to injury, the day we left New Ulm there was a huge blizzard that we drove in till we got near to Madison, not quite the half way point. We were just about ready to stop at a motel but then decided to push on and finally got home after 16 hours in the car. To write about it now seems like we were reallly cuckoo, but at the time it was just another Christmas trip! And back then we had a regular rear wheel drive car.
Oh, I could tell oodles more stories of those Minnesota trips.
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