A Blizzard en route to Montana

We didn't believe the weather man. There was a blizzard going on in Kansas, the direction we needed to go. So we headed north from Belleville/St Louis through Mark Twain's hometown of Hannibal, MO and into Iowa. We didn't have an opportunity to sightsee. It wasn't heaven (see blog post of two days ago). It was raining heavily all day. The skies cleared by the time we made it to Western Iowa. We spent the night in Sioux City, IO, a city that is in three states; South Dakota, Nebraska and Iowa.
It was a warm day when we started in the morning as we made our way through South Dakota on Interstate 90. We of course had to stop at the famous Wall Drugstore as we counted the miles down. There were weather reports of snow ahead of us. When we stopped for coffee in Gillette, WY we were told the local report was for snow to start falling at 6:00PM. It was 5:30 at the time and didn't believe the weather report as we walked back to the van, comfortably without wearing a coat, and with our latte in hand. When we left Gillette we hit the cold front and the snow. We stopped earlier than we wanted in Sheridan to spend the night. It was a fortunate thing for us we were able to follow a semi truck through the blinding and thickening snow.
It had snowed all night long. The snow was on the wetter side, as expected for March 30th. The good side of that is that the snow did not blow as much as it would have had it been colder. The down side is that the roads were icier than normal. The roads were closed heading east on Interstate 90 from Sheridan to Wall, SD. We were glad we made it to Sheridan. The roads became increasingly better the further west we drove to Billings. In Lewstown, MT the nice white van was a disaster!