Tuesday/Wednesday December 29th/30th - Days 9 and 10 of fly and drive trip to Oregon - O'Neil Nebraska to Oglesby Illinois
Tuesday: My charming evening in O'Neil became a bit less charming the next morning. There were several inches of snow and little plow pushed mounds of snow in front, behind and on one side of the car which was parked on the street. I shoveled for a few minutes using a borrowed snow shovel from the hotel. I got so focused on the snow that I didn't remember to buy gas in O'Neil but I had enough to easily make it to a mini market in Orchard, Nebraska. I also got a drink and breakfast burrito while I was there. The drive East on US-20 was mostly snowy but there were some small and some slightly longer stretches of roadway that were dry, protected by little drifts of snow in on the side of the road. So there was a lot of alternating between 45 on the snowy stretches and maybe 55 in the clear spots. It was only about 120 miles to get to Sioux City Iowa but conditions got worse as I got nearer to Iowa and there were ominous warnings about massive snows...