so anyways, went down to charlotte north carolina for new years to see my best friend from college, his wife and my God son (yes i am a godfather, which is scary anyone would trust me with their kid, or at least the believe their health is good enough to outlast his teen years, lol) my gf loved it their, cheap rent, lots to do and omg the foood choices are amazing, we both gained five pounds in about 2 days! hahaha it definatly has the southern hospitality feel, but most of the people that live in the area are norhterners which is cool. My gf loved it, so did i and it was pretty much the selling point for us to move there after college... oh yea 65 degrees for new years? PERFECT lol, then we start to head home on the 2nd.... the second we get across the border of virginia, it starts snowing, then it gets dark, roads end up covered in ice, sat in traffi for an hour to find a truck across all the lanes of the highway, get past that things start to speed up, roads still icy, thoguht maybe we should pull over for the night and pass by an exit, roads are bad so we say lets just get over for the night, next exit 5 miles.... then dead stop traffic for over two hours! mos tof the hotels were booked because people were going crazy, was standing in a huge line at comfort inn and decided to call in a reservation to make sure we got a room, thank god i did because they sold out of rooms before my place in line. eft the next day roads were bad all day snow on and off
through out the day and through the mountains of West virginia, finaly saw blue sky, somewhat sunny and nice, stopped to eat got back on the road, and bam!!! darkness tons of snow horrible conditions again. at one point i felt like i was driving through the opening story of star wars, in the warp speed i couldnt even tell i was moving, see the lines on the road or anything, finally i couldnt do it anymore for fear of a truck smashing us or driving off the mountain... stopped at a rest area only 40 miles from the house and had to waiti out the snow for a couple hours, then waited to see a snow plow go by... finally got back on the road and drove about 40mph the rest of the way home in the one lane that was cleared (barely) made it home thank god! wake up the next morning with the stomach flu, you all know what that i slike so i wont go into details, i finally got over the fever today stomach still hates me, and now my gf is getting sick, wonderful start to the new years!!! ughhh 2 weeks till school starts back up, hopefully that goes a little better! anyone else have some crazy story? better or worse than mine? id love to hear it
