Arrival to La Crosse

I made it to La Crosse, Wisconsin. What a journey though! I ended up taking a different route than I had originally planned. I went south from the Bay Area because of the winter storms in the mountains of northern California and Reno. I headed south to the Bakersfield area then east to Las Vegas, where I spent the night. The next day I spent the night in Denver. The 3rd day was the roughtest, I saw many accidents because of the weather. Nebraska and Iowa had mostly ice which kept freezing on my windshield and and wipers. It turned to snow as I ventured to Northern Iowa and parts north of there. There was 6 inches of snow on the ramp to I-90 in Minnesota. I made it to La Crosse at 2 am where I breathed a deep sigh of relief. The next day I was able to visit my daughter and her partners. One of her partners has visitation for his kids so they were there too. They've grown so much since the last time I've seen them! It was nice seeing how attentive and caring Tiffany was to the children. I've always known she was good at that sort of thing but it was nice seeing it and how much better she's gotten at it as well. She has a lot of her mother in her!

I'm currently staying in a motel in La Crosse--me and Jasper that is. We're staying inside, we just have no desire to get out into negative temperature weather. I really miss my Bay Area friends and the spiritual community there. I feel I've grown so much from being there. I hope to at least visit there in the future. For now I hope to visit with Tiffany and do what I can to help her.