"You can never escape, you can only move south down the coast."
More dashes tonight
Wednesday
- Left the Days Inn and made the quick trip out to Mt. Rushmore.
- Saw the most famous rock in the country. It was pretty cool too see because it's such a legendary land mark. I got a bottle of soda with LBJ on it to. Yup.
- We drove through South Dakota which was actually a lot more interesting then Wyoming.
- At one point we stopped at Wall Drug in Wall, SD. There were signs for this place like 80 miles before it showed up so we had to stop. This was seriously the coolest place ever. It's just a giant cafe/store/gift shop/quirky entertainment complex but it had 5 cent coffee.
- We drove some more until we found another place off the highway called The Corn Palace. A guy named Judd told me how to get there. It was basically a high school gym with corn art everywhere. It was weird.
- After this we drove straight through to Missouri Valley, IA where we stayed at the Rath Inn. Decent place but the interweb didn't work. Plus there was a bug infestation in the room. Not really but there were enough to annoy me.
Thursday
-Got up and drove to Kansas City.
- "Is that a Poison shirt? Where did you get that? Man that is sick, that is ill."
-We went to 18th and Vine where we went into the Negro League Museum and this awesome Jazz Heritage Museum.
- I could have listened to Louie & Ella all day man...."I fell in love with you the first time I looked into, them there eyes."
- We left there and went to the Royals Stadium which was a huge bust. The whole thing is under construction and it's a good thing their attendance is terrible because it would be a nightmare trying to get around the complex during games.
- Stopped at a Stake N Shake. This was seventeen days in the making. Stake at Stake N Shake...never again.
-Started making our way to St. Louis where we hit the second brutal storm of the trip. Surprisingly, I was not driving this time.
-Stopped at this crazy travel lodge where we stayed for quite a while while the rain sort of passed. Bought a six foot beef jerky thing. Big mistake.
-Drove here to this Motel 8 or whatever it is right outside of St. Louis. They have an indoor pool here which of course we immediately went into. The water was salty.
-They also have internet as you might be able to gather but for some reason facebook does not work. I can't believe that website did not exist four years ago.
And so marks the end of the last Thursday of the trip. I can't believe we only have three more days on the road. It's going to be very difficult to get used to staying in one place again. If everything goes smoothly we will be back in CT on Monday. Wow.
Tomorrow though is another busy day. St. Louis and the arch in the morning, Indiana and Craig? in the afternoon, and Louisville and my Aunt & Uncle at night. After that only one more city to see on the trip (Pittsburgh) before it's all over.
Well, bedtime.
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