Well, this is the driver's view for half of yesterday and all of today, till we got into the Chicago area in late afternoon. I understand it rained hard in Mancos today, so maybe our scenery wasn't all that bad. Nonetheless, grey, grey winter days are all too prominent in my memory of northern Wisconsin and Sandy's memories of the UP. Anyway, we made it through the evening traffic south of Chicago and Gary without mishap and have holed up in Chesterton, IN. Tomorrow should be a short day into Greenville, MI, and then we can visit and relax for a day or so. Weather permitting, we'll try sneaking up I-94, along the east side of Lake Michigan. If the lake effect is too awful, we can sneak inland to Kalamazoo and north. The road across Iowa was dry, but the median and right and left right of ways were littered with cars and trucks, including a few semis, from the snowfall earlier. TV