All The World's A Stage

Winter Driving Adventure 2004, in pictures

Behind the cut, for those who like visuals.

5:45am, I shovel a path from the back door to the garage. It's dark, but I'm hoping to beat traffic.

6:50am, I am five minutes from my house. It has been over an hour since I left the house. The last 30 minutes I have been stuck, because of this. What you see in this blur is a SUV trying to get off the entrance ramp to I-94. Blocking the entrance ramp is a broken down double-loader semi. Coming the wrong way down the entrance ramp for some unknown reason, a plow. I decide not to wait, and move on to the next disaster.

7:10am, I am now four minutes from home. I have gone one minute past the previous picture in 20 minutes of time. We are stuck again - although you can't see it, ahead there is another semi, sideways, blocking our path. We will shortly escape this trap by going over a short median into slow moving, but moving, highway traffic.

7:15am, I am 3 minutes from home as I exit the highway onto the street I live off of and turn away from home, toward Michigan Ave. I don't get to the highway again until 7:50ish, when I hit I-275, for 10 minutes down to I-94, for 20 minutes toward Ann Arbor. I am just before the exit I decided to take in Ypsi when I took a picture of the trees - they were pretty; you can't tell in the picture. Note, the sun has now risen. It is approx 8:20am.

I get off the highway, and eventually turn onto Ellsworth - right behind Carla! Isn't her car adorable. But check out the scene. It was beautiful. I pulled in next to her in the parking lot right around 8:30am, 2 hours and 45 minutes after I left my house (a journey that normally takes me 35-45 minutes.)

Posted by Liz at December 23, 2004 9:39 PM