Chicago travel: memories of the blizzard

     In some of my previous posts i defined what a snowbird is.  I have at times described myself as a snowbird in reverse.  A snowbird travels to the north in the sjummer and comes to Florida in the winter.  They are definately here as evidenced by the traffic and doubled attendance at church.  I will be heading to Chicago sometime in the first week of December to stay for two seeks or so and work as a tuner and then portray Herod in the living nativity at church..  That is why I have called myself a snowbird in reverse.  The business and this event bring me to Chicago in the opposite season as is normal.
     It has actually been  almost a year since I made the trip and last year when I drove to Chicago I drove right through a 20 inch blizzard that was bearing sown on the place.  I drove through the night on that occasion and arrived at my first tuning appointment at exactually 8:30 AM.  I have to climb up a huge snow drift with a big tool box in hand to ring the customers bell.  When the customer opened the door she was shocked that I was there at all much less on time.
     This trip I am planning on flying and I hope the weather will be milder than last year.  I do miss the snow aq little so I guess I have not yet become totally aclimated to Florida.  It is a little different too when you know you will be back in the sunshine in a couple of weeks.  We have performed our Journey to Bethlehem many times with snow on the ground and a little snow does add to the setting although there was no snow in Herods home when the events actually took place that we are recreating.
     This is our 20th year to present Journey and I am looking forward to seeing many friends in Chicago and especially to see my two sons again.