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[etienettebluet]

Wednesday we drove on into Des Moines where we found another Habitat Restore and more tiles for the laundry room and stopped in at a few more Salvation Armys and DePaul stores through the afternoon. We planned on getting back on I-80 and being home before midnight.  What happened though is the damp streets froze up immediately at sundown and we found ourselves sliding on the steep streets heading out of town towards the Interstate.  After kissing the curb a couple times with the camper threatening to jack-knife we got onto residential streets and made our way back to a known commercial street and pulled into the first parking lot we saw.  Leofwyna wasn't going any further and called for a taxi to go to the nearest decent motel where we spent the night.

Thursday (Happy Thanksgiving) the day dawned clear and the sun made quick work of drying the streets.  The parking lot where we'd left the SUV and camper was in shadow and snow-covered so we had to unhook the camper, turn it and bring the SUV around to re-connect and proceed DOWN to the street and we had no further problem continuing down the road.  If there had been any more stores open Leofwyna would have looked for them but instead we got on the road home.

Back in Lincoln Friday was 99-cent sales at the Goodwills so we went 'round to all them and Leofwyna finally got her fill.