We spent Sunday night at a hotel in Winchester, VA with a plan to get up early and take 81 to 66 to 17 and connect with 95 south in Fredericksburg, VA on our way to the Villages. Once seeing the weather forecast we decided to sleep late and make the call on what to do late Monday morning after we had a better idea if the storm was living up to expectations. After evaluating our options Monday morning we scrapped the idea of cutting over to 95 in Fredericksburg and instead drove another 200 plus miles south on 81 and took 77 to 26 and hit 95 much further south in South Carolina. After learning what we missed by not cutting over to 95 in Fredericksburg we were VERY HAPPY we changed our travel plans. We still had to drive through lots of snow, but the traffic was light and the roads were in reasonably good shape. We only encountered one accident which slowed us down for a couple miles. Things could have been a lot worse and we are relieved to finally be at our Villages home until spring : (
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