Winter Wonderland

It's 3:29 PM on Thursday afternoon  My brother and I are currently parked in my car about three miles away from California City on Highway 58.  We've moved about a quarter mile in 7 hours.  The highway is closed due to snow in the Tehachapi Mountain Range and who knows how long it'll be before it opens up.  

Anyways... I figured this would be an interesting spot to blog.  I searched for scans on my laptop featuring snow and didn't find any, so I've decided to do the next best thing.

Here's the latest Clayton Kershaw card I've picked up for my collection:

2018 Topps Holiday Relic #R-CK

No snow... so printed snowflakes and CK's open fly will have to do.

Mad respect to all of you who live in areas that receive heavy snowfall each winter.  Even more respect to those who have been caught in the middle of a snowstorm away from your home.  Anyone remember that crazy storm in Atlanta a few years ago where people literally abandoned their cars in the middle of the highway?  That was super scary.

It's now 3:53pm, we're freezing our butts off, and we're starving and thirsty.  We have plenty of food and drinks, but we're afraid to eat or drink, because we're not looking forward to pooping on the side of the road.  And yes, we've filled up multiple bottles with yellow stuff in the 7 hours we've been stranded.  It sounds like our plan is to try and make it to California City, grab a room, some food, and wait for the pass to open up.

I'll try to have an update for you by tomorrow when this post is scheduled to be published.  In a perfect world, I'll be writing it from home while laying in my warm bed.

In the meantime, here's a nice song my students introduced me to last week:

Happy Friday and sayonara!

Update

We left off at 3:53pm on Thursday afternoon.  About 30 minutes later, my friend texted me that CHP had reopened the highway and were escorting caravans through the pass.  Within minutes of her text, we were moving.  Stop and go, but moving.

We spent nearly four hours traveling another mile or two before actually making our way up the mountain pass.  A little before 9pm we grabbed our first meal of the day at McDonald's in Bakersfield.  Normally it'd take around four hours to get from Las Vegas to Bakersfield.  Yesterday, it took us over 15 hours.

We thought about grabbing a hotel in Bakersfield, but a lot of places were fully booked.  So we hopped in the car, pushed on, and walked through my front door safely at a little past 1am.

Although the drive home was pretty miserable... I wouldn't have changed this trip for anything.  It was really nice to hang out with my father for the holidays and it was so obvious how much he appreciated our visit.