WE SLID INTO OUR I-80 EXIT!

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           It was the late 1970's and three vehicles wee headed to Colorado during school Spring Break from West Des Moines, Iowa. Two friends and their families along with myself and children
 made up the Skiing Convoy!

        Our overnight destination was Grand Island, Nebraska simply to not press the trip in arriving at our final destination, Summit County--Breckenridge, Copper Mountain, and Keystone, west of Denver, Colorado. It was always a crap-shoot that time of year and everyone knew that the roads could turn treacherous across the Cornhusker state. 

        We were just east of Grand Island and I was sitting in the back seat with one of the kids while my ex-wife, May, drove. All of sudden the car passing us went straight down into the median. Up until then it was raining lightly and then in a flash turned to ice!

         Fortunately, we all just slowed down and got off the Grand Island exit and made it to our lodging safe and sound. In THOSE days we had no outside temp gauge in our vehicles and we didn't have cell-phones to communicate with one another. 

        The place where we stayed had a big buffet line with, as I recall vividly, lobster pieces and lots of pizza along with an indoor pool! And, yes the next morning was sunny and clear and the rest of the journey to the slopes was uneventful weather wise!