We are back in Greater Peavine after our short trip to Kentucky - but not without some excitement. While it was 70 degrees and sunny in Kentucky we hit a wall of snow around Springfield last night and traffic on the Interstate slowed to 40 mph as we crept past numerous cars and trucks that had slid off the highway and crashed into guardrails or other cars.

As we entered Greater Peavine the snow continued but the toll road was now without snowplows or police. The highway shoulder was buried in snow and in places the snow had covered all but one lane. It was hard to tell if the highway was just wet or frozen. Semi-trailer trucks were constantly on my tail as I slowed to 40 mph on the one open lane. Nonetheless the car suddenly spun out of control and whipped from one side of the highway to the other as I tried to keep the front wheels pointed straight ahead and fought the urge to hit the brakes. We came to rest sideways on the snow-packed shoulder with the front of the car across one lane of the two-lane highway. I had narrowly avoided hitting the concrete wall in the middle of the toll road or going off the steep slope on the other side of the highway. But now I had the car stuck in deep snow and sticking out onto the highway - with several semi-trucks headed our way.

As I flashed my lights to warn the oncoming drivers I tried in vain to get the car to move but it seemed hopeless. The trucks and several cars passed by in the one open lane (no one stopped to help) and after a couple of minutes of rocking back and forth the car broke free of the snow and we got back on the highway. It was an interesting way to end the mini-vacation.