Safe and sound and cold and snowy

We did the long haul North from Saginaw! We made it up without going off the road, but we did get to see a couple of flipped over snowmobile trailers and stranded trucks. It was kind of slick in the northern Lower Peninsula but there wasn’t any snow falling until well over half-way across the U.P. Just west of Autrain there was a wall of lake-effect snow that we drove into. Big fluffy flakes in mass quantities. Exactly the sort of thing to make the last half hour of an eight hour drive really exciting.

My wife got some really good pictures of the drive up. I’m sure she’ll post them sometime later tonight, or possibly tomorrow. I just got the wireless network set up with Dad’s cable modem and did two quick bits of troubleshooting for his new iMac. I’m sure I’ll be doing more tomorrow. The plans for the rest of the night include resting, relaxing, and recovering from the last stop of the Quirk Family Traveling Christmas Show.