Winter did indeed deploy the scorpion tail while I was up there in Minnesota last week, making my drive back to the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport very “interesting” to say the least.  Most of the way had been plowed and traffic was moving along quite well.  However, in some of the smaller towns only one lane had been cleared and some of the intersections were troublesome.  It didn’t help that my rental car was a Ford Focus, though (unfortunately, I was stuck with it given that I’m required to take the lowest cost rental…).  I almost didn’t get out of the hotel parking lot, which hadn’t been plowed.

Otherwise the trip was quite good.  The people were pretty friendly (and the accent kind of grows on you).