After we said our good-byes to our friends in Michigan, we decided to start the trip back to Iowa. We didn’t really know what the weather was supposed to be like, so we thought we’d be better off safe than sorry and start out early. If the weather did get bad, we knew that we could always stop and stay for the night. So off we went.
The first thing that we came across was this. Now honestly isn’t this about the funniest thing you’ve ever seen?
It was a sign just on the side of the road and Daryl just gives in anymore when I ask him if he’ll stop so I can snap a picture. I’m thinking to myself, now how often had they had prisoners escape that they actually post a sign saying that no one should pick them up if they do? I think this is about the craziest thing ever! I laughed and laughed until my belly hurt. Daryl just kept wondering why I thought this was so funny.. and I guess I really don’t know. But it was! Then back on the highway we went. The roads in Michigan all look pretty much the same. Trees and more trees.
I thought that maybe there should be some bears around all these trees, but we only kept seeing deer standing on the side of the road. Thank goodness they stayed on the side of the roads ! But we had a lot of time to just hang out in the car and we even had a little sing a long time with the radio. OK, it was mostly me.. but it did pass the time. And just like that the roads got icy. The windshield of the car started to freeze over and everyone on the Interstate slowed down and took it off cruise control. We weren’t sure how long it was going to last so we found a hotel not too far from where we were at and ended up staying the night. Tonight we checked in way earlier than last night and we ended up walking over to a local Pub and had supper and there was going to be a band later. We also made sure that the hotel had a swimming pool with a hot tub. We didn’t stay up too late and by morning the car was plump full of snow. But the roads were good and as we got closer to home the weather even was kind of nice. I was surprised that only a couple of hours from our farm there was little or now snow. Even the rivers were completely open.
Mississippi River by Le Claire, Ia
We made it back to the car rental and turned in our little SUV for our truck and home we went. We noticed a lot more snow along the roads and also a lot more cars were in the ditch.
All you see is snow and more snow around our farm
We heard later that the weather was pretty nasty again Saturday and Saturday night. When we got home, Kyle was waiting for us and had everything on the farm and house done. It was a good trip and I’m so glad that we took the time to go. I think there are some things that you know are just the right thing to do and this was one of them.