Yeah, my ride home was
fun. Arrived safely now. Total trip distance from Fontanazzo: 703km, drive time according to the car: 9h 17m. Of those, at least 2h were standing still with the engine idling for warmth.
When I left Innsbruck after lunch, there was some rain on the Austrian highways. That was fine. As I drove nearer the Fernpass and Grenztunnel F?ssen, that gradually turned into snowfall, which was still alright. However, on the other side of the tunnel in Germany, things were
bad... heavy snowfall that must've started very recently, no snow ploughs have gone over the Autobahn yet, and temperatures around the freezing point. Top speed of ~80-90, doing any more felt plain unsafe with the limited visibility and extremely slippery surface. Went like that for ~200km or so, and then hit a huge jam on the A8. Apparently there was a large truck accident in a roadworks area. Stood still for nearly 2,5 hours, burning through LTE data watching Youtube (yay last day of the month).
Once things got moving again, got to the next service station and ate some dinner - that was at about 10-10:30 pm. Kinda surreal being nearly alone in a huge service station restaraunt - I guess the combination of late time and barely any movement on the Autobahn (thanks to the jam in both directions) makes for few customers.
Anyway, while the trip home took a bit longer than expected, I'm still happy with the whole thing! Skiing was good in Italy, and I guess I really needed to get out of the daily grind for some time, so that worked
Hope you guys have fun for the rest of your stay. And get those pictures uploaded!