We had been on the road 2 and a half days already. My best friend and I had been switching shifts driving but it was taking a toll on us both. We were both pretty exhausted and delirious after 36 hours so I decided to pull over at a rest area somewhere in the middle of Nebraska so we could both properly get some rest. After a few hours of sleep I decided to get back on the road early that morning and continued on until my best friend woke up and was ready to drive again.

There were a lot of cars and trucks on the I-80 that morning. It was sunny and beautiful out and never would I have expected what would happen just a few hours later. Although I wasn't driving anymore, I am usually very alert to all thats going on around me and I could sense that there was a lot going on around us. My best friend had been cursing about an aggressive truck driver behind us on our tail trying to pass us. We were in the left lane of the highway and when we finally got enough space to switch lanes to the right side we did. Upon doing so the tail wind from that fast truck passing caused the trailer to start swaying from side to side. At this moment everything happened in slow motion like a movie. As the trailer started to lose control I just remember all of us in the car just being so calm. When I look back and think about it now its like I felt some universal force holding the truck like a bubble as the trailer swayed. Then another truck passed us and after more tail wind hit us we lost all control and ended up doing a 180 into the right side off the highway. This caused the trailer to miraculously unhitch and flip over. We ended up in high brush along the highway which could have been another miraculous factor in why our truck didn't flip over. As soon as the car was still we all got out and we just looked at each other in disbelief about what just occurred. Somehow the truck was fine without any damage to it or us at all but the trailer was fully flipped on its side. A few people had pulled over to see if we were ok, they gave us hugs because they had all witnessed what happened and said we were lucky.

Lucky is an understatement, and as I looked at the damage I had realized that the trailer was a complete loss and my investment had completely gone down the drain being that I had no insurance. But I was full of gratitude to still be alive and unharmed. I cried and hugged all my friends as we waited for the highway patrol to come.

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