Randy (RJMAcres) and I left Las Cruces at 6AM CST and had decided to take the 'Southern' route back to MO due to the anticipated Ice and Snow storm that was brewing over Amarillo, TX and headed for El Paso and then cut through the Guadalupe Mountains east of El Paso..where we also hit some ice coming down and had to sit in a traffic back up due to a couple of wrecks on a bridge...

Stopped for a quick breakfast in Pecos, TX, gassed up again and headed out with very few stops in an attempt to make Texarkana, TX and decided, after checking the weather pattern to push on to Conway, AR...1026 miles in 14 hours...both of us were tired and I only had to pull Randy's feet out of the floor board a couple of times...

We had planned on the possibility of having to hunker down in Conway due to forecast of Ice and Sleet coming in during the night and were pleasantly surprised to find that when we woke up at 6:30AM, the streets were dry and traffic seemed to be moving good...We decided to forgo breakfast and hit the road for Missouri in an attempt to get Randy home to his secluded home in the Southern MO hills and give me time to reach St Louis...

Shortly after leaving Conway,,,This is what we encountered...



We made it to Ava, MO, where Randy's mother lives, and he decided to get out there, rather than me attempting to negotiate the back roads to his place... The road to Ava was bad enough...After unloading his stuff and saying goodbye, I headed North and this is what I encountered most of the way up to Interstate 44..



Thanks to the excellent efforts of the MO Dept of Transportation, I was pleasantly surprised to find the Interstate and primary roads to the North had been treated and were just wet and slushy.. I arrived home at about 6 PM and crashed as soon as making a couple of phone calls...

A total of 1499 miles under some long and rough conditions...

Glad you made it. Me and Kerry hit the same kind of weather starting in about Gallup. Had a semi roll over just ahead of us.

Good to hear you and Randy made it home safe Bill.

Glad you arrived safe I had some of the same stuff but thankfully it only lasted a couple of hours and I drove out of the worst and it turned to rain.

Old turtle, good seeing you again, it was great talking to you and RJM at the hotel. I'm glad your safe and back home.

Glad that you and Randy made it home safe.I went to sleep before the weather came on Saturday night.Got up at 2:30 am.Ran into a little snow an hour north of Las Cruces and a little more at Albuquerque before I got to the airport.The weather was a total surpise to me.

Glad you and Randy made it safe and sound. Thanks a TON for all of your help Bill! We couldn't have done it without ya!

Happy to hear that you both made it home safely, as well as everyone else who made the big road trip. Bill, it was great to see you again and Randy it was a pleasure to meet you and have the opportunity to take you out for a coyote. Will see you both next year.

Jim

I just made it home a little while ago.
Didn't think my wife was going to come get me at my mothers.

Glad you guys made it home.

Glad you all made it safe. I left shortly after you guys, but didn't have quite as far to go. There were a few wrecks in Albuquerque on the way back, with snow all the way to Trinidad on the CO border. I made it home about 4 PM and was beat, only one pit stop to gas up made for some stiff legs.

Can't wait to see you all again next year!