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34 Der Sportwagen progress even more. Luckily the bright yellow of the Cayman made her visible to everyone else crazy enough to join us on the road. The Cayman cut through the fog and handled it all admirably and without complaint. All the while, Mother Nature battered Kansas with snow and inched closer and closer to our destination. Around lunchtime, the phone calls started coming in from fellow club members and family about every 15 minutes with weather updates and to see where we were in relation to the oncoming storm. The fog lifted and visibility improved after lunch and we were able to push it a little bit more to make up time against the storm. We made it to Joplin for an early dinner before pushing north into the teeth of the storm. Several more phone calls, pictures and updates later, Mother Nature had blanketed Kansas City with more than half a foot of snow determined to prevent the completion of our journey. We made our way cautiously north on Interstate 49 until we got to Butler, MO, an hour south of Kansas City. Mother Nature had won, and the roads were a mess and I wasn’t about to risk a car I had owned for less than 48 hours trying to drive through a minor blizzard. first day with a new car. As we went to sleep, Mother Nature got to work and Sunday would be a completely different story. On Sunday the story shifted; the joy of Saturday had washed away from a good night’s sleep and reality settled in for the remainder of the trip. Did I mention that this adventure occurred in the middle of December? Sunday started early as we got back on the road heading east to Kansas City. During the night, Mother Nature sent a snow storm down from the Colorado Rockies (not the baseball team) and was wreaking havoc across Kansas all the while heading toward Kansas City. We made the decision to stay south through Oklahoma to Joplin before heading north towards home. With an eye on the radar, it became a race against Mother Nature, and she doesn’t play fair. She painted a dense, murky grey fog across the Oklahoma morning. Visibility was beyond limited, and the clouds provided a bit moisture on top of the fog, slowing our