Travel today should have been easy, with a day off and only 150 miles to go, but it wasn’t. The winds were ferocious, and these little secondary roads were filled with ice patches and blowing snow. While driving cautiously, you can only hope that others will, too. The biggest fear for me is of facing an oncoming car “daredevil” passing in the ice and snow. If our car had to swerve a dive to avoid such a thing, it would be in a deep ditch full of snow in the middle of nowhere. Today was a high of 18 degrees. Frank pointed out that sometimes road conditions change from county to county, and definitely state to state. As we crossed over into Minnesota from South Dakota this morning about 9:30 AM, there was a definite change on the road. We went from a sanded and salted road in South Dakota to an untreated snowy and icy road in Minnesota. Driving from that point on was very stressful and the strong winds didn’t help.
We rolled into our Super 8 (the only hotel in Glencoe), and collapsed once again. Frank went out to check out the town and came back with a dozen red roses for me! (Sniff!)
We decided to arrange some practice time today and it felt good to sharpen up on a few things for our last four concerts. After that, Frank talked me into driving to Hutchinson (20 miles away), for a movie, since there’s no theater in this town. I reluctantly said yes, as I knew he meant well. We ended up driving on very dark back roads with random ice patches everywhere. We took a couple of wrong turns, but finally found the theater, but by that time, we missed the show. Disappointed, we braved the trip back to Glencoe and hunkered down back at our hotel room. There just doesn’t seem to be much to do in Glencoe in the winter if you don’t live here.
If we do this tour again, we’ll suggest that maybe on our days off we can play for the schools more in these areas. We would meet more people and have fun entertaining all these great kids. Today at the school when we were practicing, there were auditions for the class play. I wanted to jump right in!
The next three nights are busy with concerts. We’re looking forward to that. We’ve practiced, we have up-dated haircuts, and our outfits are freshly cleaned. That’s how we’re dealing with the home stretch. Tomorrow I think we’ll take a long walk no matter what. Maybe we’ll stumble across something interesting!
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