Snow! Our Travels Will Begin In A Snowstorm

Saying goodbye to a few favorites

It would not be an adventure if we knew the outcome in advance.

So begins our biggest, boldest coddiwomple yet: When we get up tomorrow, we will face 4 to 8 inches of snow in the morning. The first few hours of traffic are going to be a doozy!

Well, I did say I’d welcome any snowstorms before we left. Perhaps I should have been more specific.

Snow is the biggest unknown for our travels. Typically, we have not had to contend with it during our long winter-spring travels. However, there have been some trying times.

Two years ago, we received four feet of snow at the Grand Canyon, but we were already in place, and it did not impact us all that much, other than having to plunge through waist-deep snow on two hikes.

Our first challenge of the trip will be in the first minutes. It’s enough to
make one laugh and wonder what’s ahead in the following 5 months.

Longtime readers will remember a massive snowstorm that hit us in Navajo Nation a few years ago. It turned into a nightmare few days, in…