2011 - Feb. 09 Day 1 Home to Jackson, GA.

We left the house at 7:58am with a temperature of 7 degrees. The drive to Marion, IL was uneventful, but things soon changed when we crossed paths with the winter snow storm coming from the west. We drove in snow from Marion to Nashville, seeing several vehicles in the ditches. About 30 miles west of Nashville, we stopped at a rest area and checked the RADAR. The leading edge of the storm was just getting to Nashville and it looked like, once we got to Nashville, we would be ahead of the storm and could stay ahead of it by heading east to Chattanooga rather than south to Birmingham.

The first two pictures below were taken in Nashville, where the roads were clear and dry. We made it to Jackson, GA, about 20 miles south of Atlanta, without encountering any more snow. We traveled about 770 miles today before "camping" at a Flying J truck stop.
When we got up the next morning there was some snow on the camper and a bit on the ground, but the roads were only wet. We hit the road at 8:05am.