We arrived safely back in Colorado Springs about 7:30 p.m. last night. The last three hours of the drive were pretty bad. Just north of Trinidad we drove into a snowstorm and were in the storm the rest of the way home. While we had no issues at all, several other cars and trucks were off the road. In one case just north of Pueblo, we were in the right lane going about 50 mph on snow-packed roads. We were coming up on a pickup truck in the left lane which had recently been plowed. I don’t like to be in recently plowed lanes if the snow is packed in the other lane as plowed lanes get pretty slippery. This proved to be the case. Just as we came up on the right rear of the truck, he lost control. The backend slid to the right, the truck did a 180 degree turn and went off the road into the median. Somehow he managed to come up the other side of the median and end up on the bearm of the southbound left lane, pointed south. He drove away…. Several others weren’t nearly so lucky.

I’ve put some pictures from our trip to Jaelene’s in the picture collection. Click on "Pictures" on the right sidebar and select "Samsal1203" from the list of pictures and enjoy. Happy New Year!