It's funny...I expected Montana and Wyoming to be flat and desolate with the freeway pretty much going straight, but to my surprise South Dakota takes the gold medal. Now, I didn't travel through all of Montana or Wyoming. We did cover a pretty good chunk of Montana, and a good majority of that drive was quite beautiful. Northeastern Wyoming was also quite pretty. Western South Dakota was promising at first, but after Rapid City things became undeniably boring. I guess I'm not surprised by that. I'm just surprised that the other two states were quite different.
The day of travel was okay today. We were up at 5:30am, on the road an hour later with full tummies from continental breakfast. Luke was pretty cool for a good amount of the time, but we still stopped four times. The weather reached 104 degrees F in some parts of South Dakota. We also checked out this drug store in Wall, South Dakota known as Wall Drug, which is really just a missive tourist store, restaurant, bakery, ice cream parlor, clothing store & so much more. The cool thing was that there were tons of billboards more then 80 miles out of Wall that told motorists about all about Wall Drug. Pretty cool place.
No, we didn't stop at Mt. Rushmore. It was too far out of the way from I-90. Holly wanted to go at first, but ultimately decided to bypass it, considering the amount of driving we were actually doing.
As much fun as this road trip is, it'll be good to be done on Thursday. It sure is cool to see all this new territory.
Take care and value music.
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