On the Road, Part II
I awoke at 5:30 yesterday morning in Ames, IA and looked out the window to see a light inch of powdery snow covering the landscape. Flakes were floating down in quarter sized clumps that you could almost hear hit the ground. It was dark, still, chilly and calm. It also meant potential road hazards, so I wanted to get going. Benette was awake and reading the paper when I came out of the guest room.
“Do you want to check the weather or anything before you go, or just have faith?”
“Nah. Whether it’s snowing or not, I’ll be driving to Ohio today, so knowing the weather makes little difference.”
I hugged her goodbye, brushed the snow off my car and was back on the asphalt. For the first hour or so I passed multiple cars that had slid off the highway and into the ditch, but taking it slow and easy I had no problems, and the snow was gone by the time the sun rose.
While most of Nebraska is plains and fields, most of middle Iowa is rolling hills of fields. The towns you pass through are separated by only a few miles, but the hills hide the small communities from each other, creating a geographical barrier that probably seems more real to travelers passing through than it does for the locals.
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“Do you want to check the weather or anything before you go, or just have faith?”
“Nah. Whether it’s snowing or not, I’ll be driving to Ohio today, so knowing the weather makes little difference.”
I hugged her goodbye, brushed the snow off my car and was back on the asphalt. For the first hour or so I passed multiple cars that had slid off the highway and into the ditch, but taking it slow and easy I had no problems, and the snow was gone by the time the sun rose.
While most of Nebraska is plains and fields, most of middle Iowa is rolling hills of fields. The towns you pass through are separated by only a few miles, but the hills hide the small communities from each other, creating a geographical barrier that probably seems more real to travelers passing through than it does for the locals.
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