South Wyomakota

We waited here for the aliens to arrive for days! No, we haven't made a recent trip to Wyoming, these are actually pictures that I've been wanting to post on the blog for a long time but haven't gotten around to doing it. This was taken back in October of 2006 as we made our trek across the country to our new Milwaukee home. From mountains to mid-west we made a few interesting stops along the way. Devil's Tower was super cool, and definitely worth the significant detour we had to take to get there. It was during this trip that we came to realize that Wyoming is our nation's sidewalk - a handy route to get from one side of the yard to the other, but mostly just a bunch of flat, grey, square-shaped, nothing.

I'd always wanted to see Mt. Rushmore, but had never had much of a reason to visit South Dakota...until this trip! Once again, its a great stop along the way, but certainly not a final destination. We didn't have any cash in the car, so we weren’t able to park and take a long look at Mt. Rushmore, but we did get some pretty good pictures from the road. I particularly like this one, which I think gives a good idea of where the mountain is and just how big those presidential noggins really are. There's a bunch of pretty cool tunnels and bridges en route, and lets not forget the huge bear watchin' place, which is a great place to go should you like watchin' bears, be they huge or not. Oh, and then there's Wall Drug, which merits a blog of its own. This was our I-90 trip, last March we did the I-80 route. Someday we'll get all crazy and go the I-70 route, but not until we're in the mood for some serious arch kicking.