Welcome to...: 10, 9, 8, and we're breaking away!

So after a long day yesterday I finally made it to Chicago. 13 hours in a Truck is not fun but it was worth it.

Yesterday morning I got up really early and made it out the door by 6:30 am. It has been a long time since i got up that early. But once I was driving I was fine. I passed my brother going to work which was cool. But enough about that....back to the trip.

This picture is my truck in front of Matt's Apt. It snowed last night but all that snow around it was already there. I had to gun it to get into the spot so I think my truck is pretty much stuck. And its not going to be above freezing so I will probably have to dig it out to get home.

So starting off down the turnpike this early in the morning and this was probably the worse of the weather i encountered while driving. You can't see it but the whole road was covered in ice. It look like once solid sheet and the semi's were driving like 80 miles an hour. So that was kind of scary but I got over it. There really isn't much to say from this point on till Chicago. So pretty much, went through Tulsa.....blah, then Joplin...blah, then St Louis. My whole goal since I've never been to St. Louis except the airport was to get a picture of the Arch. This is pretty much the closest i could get because right after this photo I had to turn on this exit and like big trucks and cars and traffic and well I pretty much almost died. I just had my hands at 10 and 2 and was screaming. Just trust me it was that scary.

Then off to Springfield. Pretty much after St. Louis you could see how much snow they got from that storm. The roads were fine but everything else was covered in like feet of snow. It was really pretty. I love snow but in Okieland all we get is ice and it sucks.

Then it got dark and well this picture pretty much explains it. Traffic is insane here and St Louis was bad but this was worse. They don't have the driving hospitality that most Oklahomans have. If you don't more or get out of the way well then they run you over. So this last picture is pretty much all i could do and since I didn't want the flash going off it just made a mess. But all I have to say about driving into Chicago downtown was the view was incredible. I was pretty much awestruck. The Lights, Navy Pier, all just beautiful.