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[OM] Re: xcountry drive (LA-Chi)--snow?

Subject: [OM] Re: xcountry drive (LA-Chi)--snow?
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2007 11:44:22 -0500
Yup, he says he had chains in the car... plus a lot of other stuff. 
Fortunately, we never needed any of that stuff.

Chuck Norcutt

Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> If I were going to do this (and I'm not saying I recommend it) I would 
> take the more southerly route (I-15, I-40, I-44, I-55) passing through 
> Flagstaff, Albuquerque, Amarillo, Oklahoma City, Tulsa, St. Louis.
> 
> Perhaps my father simply didn't know any better but, when I was aged 13 
> and 15 (mid-1950's), we took driving trips from Battle Creek, MI at 
> Christmas time to visit my mother's family in Los Angeles.  But the 
> interstate route I just outlined above didn't exist.  We had to do most 
> of the trip on the old (and now famous) US route 66.  Since it was 
> December and January there was clearly snow along almost all of the 
> route but I don't have any recollection of it except about 6" on the 
> ground in the Texas panhandle, Flagstaff and the Grand Canyon.  Since we 
> lived in Michigan (pretty snowy) it may be that my father normally 
> carried chains.  I don't remember.  I'll have to ask him when he calls 
> this morning.

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