Our LOOOOOOOOOOONG Trip to NC

Well our trip down was extremely long and very eventful! About 2 hours into the trip we hit ice. Not unusual in Michigan. We slowed down and decided to move along because we would pass it.

NOT.

Turns out an ice storm hit northern indiana, southern michigan and northern illinois.

By the time we got to South Bend Indiana we were on a solid sheet of ice. Driving at around 10 mph because of course we were sliding all over the place. Finally my brother decided to take an exit.

Not the best idea. We got stuck. And there we sat for 3 hours. Along with everyone else. Someone else thought they were past the problem and went up the exit sliding and hit another car. Which brought the cops. Which he slid up the road. Notice his position in the below photo? It wasn't intentional.

We almost got hit by several people, including a snow plow. Eventually we got up the exit, got some breakfast and decided to move along.

Past South Bend we couldn't get anywhere. They had all roads closed.

We gave up (me very resistantly) and got a hotel. So our 14-16 hr trip took like 2 1/2 days.

Here are a couple of pics from our being stuck.

I will say the hotel was AWESOME. It had the MOST comfortable beds I've ever been in. I'd love to go back and sleep there again. Maybe under better circumstances. LOL