I sent my wife to the hospital 45 minutes drive away from our apartment in the morning and we reached there around 12:05 pm.
In the evening she called and asked me to leave the house around 12:30 am to fetch her. My son and I went to sleep around 8 pm. By the time I woke up there was light snow and I have to scrape the snow from our car as it was parked in open space car park. Due to the delay, I left the house around 1:20 am.
I did not need the GPS as I knew the way there. I took the usual route of Interstate-80 going west and changing to I-55 going south. It was snowing lightly and the ground was wet and slushy. I went at around 55 to 60 mph, dared not to go any faster for fear of the car slipping. Towards the end of the journey on I-55, I exited on the left of the expressway to the next part of the journey. It is actually an odd exit as in this part of the world, we keep right if we are slow.
The trip took to the rural area as there was roughly another 20 miles to go. The road was actually very dark in this part of the trip. No street lamps and I could only see light coming from the reflector at the center of the road. Without the reflectors, I could hardly tell where is the left boundary on the road. As I peered at the rear view mirror, it was complete darkness. Some of these rural areas are hunting ground and there is the occasional stretch of houses as the car whizzed by. By the time I reached the hospital, it was 2:10 am.
My wife was hungry and we wanted to buy a burger for her at the McDonald’s in the town center. But it was closed. Anyway, I cooked rice for her at home and she just have to bear with the hunger for a while. We took another route home using the GPS. The trip home was longer and there were a lot of turning here and there. Compared to the usual route that I take, there are more stretches of minor road and less miles on the expressways. Also, most parts of the road were in complete darkness and the driving condition was worst than the route we took to the hospital. There were parts when we were just following the previous wheel tracks left on the ground amid the dry snow. It took us 1 hour 15 minutes to get home. All of us were hungry when we reached home and by the time we got to bed, it was 4 am in the morning.
And my son had school in the morning.