There before the grace of God...go we...

My 14-year old son and I left the St. Cloud area around 5pm CST for Naperville, Illinois and drove into a major snowstorm starting in Minneapolis. It was there that I put my ol' 1995 Geo Tracker into 4-wheel drive mode and went headlong into an odyssey that would see a car or a semi (or a combination of both) in the medians and the ditches every two or three miles. My Tracker was in rare form, and handled it like a champ. I finally got out of the weather just south of Madison, where I was able to take it out of 4-wheel drive and cruise normally. A trip than normally takes seven hours took 10 and a half hours--I finally got to Naperville around 3:35am CST. I'm a bit exhausted right now, but I guess I'll live :)