Okay, I am way to tired for complete sentences so here is a rundown of the last two days which was really just one long one.
Monday
-We left the Days Inn in Cameron Park early
-We found this hotel in the last town on the NV border that we should have stayed at instead of the place we did. It was like $30 for a night and it was at some awful hotel/casino type place. Oh well we wouldn't have the cougar story to tell if we did that (another time). ]
-Drove by the Great Salt Lake
-Went into Salt Lake City for lunch where we ate at a cafe inside some sort of huge office building. Probably the leading candidate for weirdest place we have been.
-Briefly walked around SLC where they have these ridiculous orange flags on either side of the street that you need to hold as you cross.
-Saw The Tabernacle, the Delta Center, and not one minority.
-Made a mental note never to return to Salt Lake City.
-Drove all the way from SLC to West Yellowstone, MT, a small touristy town that is located directly outside of the West entrance of Yellowstone national Park.
-Tried to camp inside the park....all campsites full.
-Tried to find a reasonably priced hotel that was not fully booked in town. We did this by briskly walking up and down the town blocks, pointing and yelling "vacancy" at places that looked promising. No luck.
-Decided it would be a good idea to drive about a mile outside the town to a camping sight. We reserved our spot for only $14
-Quickly got some pizza back in the town. Canadian Bacon.....where?
-Went back to the campsite where we managed to set up the tents and get a fire going without any casualties. We should have known everything was going far to well at this point.
-Put out the fire and tried to go to sleep around twelve. It still didn't feel all that cold.
-By 3:30 we are all out of the tents and in the car. Montana nights are rather frigid apparently.
- Slept in the car for about four hours.
Tuesday
-We broke down the tents, jumped some creepy guys truck and left the camp sight forever.
-Stopped at a breakfast place back in town. Best cup of coffee of my life.
-After breakfast we went into Yellowstone Park which was yet another amazing place. Between the buffalo, the geysers and the snow covered mountains it was definitely as poetically great as I hoped for. Obviously, you could spend weeks discovering everything the Park has to offer but I was really happy with everything we got to see while we were there.
-Leaving Yellowstone, we began the painfully long trip through Wyoming and South Dakota. We stopped at this town called Shell along the way which only had a population of fifty people.
- We drove through the Black Hills mountains which were breathtaking.
-Stopped for dinner in a town called Sheridan at a Perkins which featured arguably the worst service of the trip and also a clown inexplicably named Willy Wonka Jr. hanging out in the waiting area. Before I left, I went into the bathroom only to find the giant clown standing in one of the stalls. Seeing the hat above the door and the giant shoes underneath it was one of the funniest things I have seen this whole trip. Yeah, I know, it's really not very funny.
-Ran out of the Perkins and started driving towards Mt. Rushmore.
-We tried to book this hotel room in a town close to the landmark and the guy basically told us to stay somewhere else closer to where we were.
- Ended up at a Days Inn in Gillette about an hour and a half from Mt. Rushmore.
So that was the last two days. It's funny because I'm pretty sure this is going to be the longest blog I have written even though the whole point of those little dash things was to keep it short. Oh well, I hope it makes some semblance of sense. Tomorrow we see Mt. Rushmore and then spend the rest of the day going through South Dakota and hopefully into Nebraska and Missouri. Once we hit Sioux Falls we should be okay but the 300+ miles between Mt. Rushmore and there might be the most difficult of the trip. One way or another, I'm sure it will be funny.
Bed.
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