CROSS COUNTRY MOVE - DAY 1

So I decided to blog my cross country trip just for fun, ya know just in case anything exciting happened. Well we started off with a bang! We got a late start out of SLC like 4pm by the time we hit the road not 10 or 12 like we wanted to. We were cruising on I - 84 just fine and about the Utah / Idaho border it starts to snow and we slowed down. We were climbing up a hill and we hit black ice. We started to fishtail with our trailer behind the truck and so I corrected and we ended up sliding the other way at which point we went down into the median @ 50 mph and we landed at the bottom trailer intact. We blew 1 tire on truck 1 on trailer and one on my car. I was freaked out, my pregnant sister was super calm. So we called the 24 hr tow ppl this was at 6pm they told us 45 min. we're like OK, not 15 min later we watch an SUV with 5 ppl in it roll twice and so we ran to help them. They were hispanic and I was trying to translate as best I could. We gave them blankets, coats, food, h2o. We waited for the ambulances to arrive and our tow truck too. 2 hrs later or tow arrives. I made my sister get checked out by the EMT on scene and they decided we had to go by ambulance to Burley, Idaho...50+ miles away to the hospital. We then got to spend 3 hrs in the hospital filling out accident reports and making sure the baby was ok. Everything is fine BTW. It turns out there was 7 accidents on that stretch and we were the only ones that didin't roll over. We are now in the Fairfield Hotel in Burley. Len the front desk guy is amazing he let us use the hot tub at 1am even when it closed at 11, AWESOME. My dad is driving from Oregon to come get us tomorrow to go to Utah and get our repaired / replaced truck. I guess well see what happens tomorrow....keep you posted.

COLIN