Living in Limbo

We departed from Matthews childhood home to embark on a long trip to get our car back and drive to a friends house in Wisconsin.  First was a train ride from Springfield, MA to Chicago, IL.

We had a 4 hour layover that we spent eating breakfast and walking around the city.  We were only 1 mile from Millennium park.

The next leg was to Fargo, ND.  We then had to wait about 12 hours until we could take the bus to Bismarck, ND.  It took from Saturday to Tuesday to make it to Bismarck.  We arrived having slept very minimally, with the last night getting maybe 3 hours of sleep on the bus.  Once we got the truck back we drove back to Fargo.  Once there we decided we really needed a good nights sleep before continuing.  The trip back to Fargo was stressful, we were anxious having been in an accident and the roads were still horrible, and we were exhausted.

 heading out of Bismarck

not encouraging

We got a cheap hotel and slept for 18 hours, with a short break to eat dinner.  We woke feeling a little off but much better.  We knew we were tired, but didn't realize just how bad it was until the next morning.  From there we went south to Sioux falls, then west.  It was a safer route than going through Minneapolis which was just hit with slush, snow and traffic in the entire city was entirely red on google.  That being said, it was still stressful with icy roads.  Here's a sampling of the cars we saw on the side of the road:

That doesn't include all the ones we saw, I was not able to get every one, but there were a lot and it was, again, stressful! It took us about 15 hours total but we made it safely to Wisconsin.  The work we had on the truck was pretty basic.  It was just enough to be safe to drive.  We are spending some time here to work on a few more things before heading farther south.  I was hoping to go to Colorado to see friends there but the weather was not looking good.  I just saw they got 30 inches of snow recently, so we'll make our way there later.  For now we are safe and warm which makes me very happy!