Cross Country Part 3

Evidence that I DID drive part of the way and that we had a fantastic time!
I would do it all again in a heartbeat.
Still in Yellowstone more errie evidence showing the past fires.
As we left Yellowstone we drove through this gorgeous, well...gorge.

I was under the impression that other than Yellowstone there was nothing really worthwhile in Wyoming. Boy was I wrong. Granted there isn't much in the way of civilization but who needs that when you can have unhindered views like this!

I wish I knew the name of this fantastic and welcoming town that we happened upon but I cannot remember. All I know is that a fantastic lunch in she shade after driving in the hot hot hot sun was really really great. We stopped to buy ice for our cooler at a convinience store on the main street. Assuming there wasn't much else to the town we, we were making sandwiches on the hood of the car. We were kindly informed of a picnic area nearby which also had a public POOL!
What a pool! We didn't have the energy or time to dig out our suits from in the perfectly packed car. So we sat on the edge and dipped our feet, hands, arms, whatever we could and then went back out onto the road.

To discover large green fields and empty roads. We were now in South Dakota.

But wait...there's more to South Dakota than fields and old barns.

There are presidents!

Huge Presidents! I found Mount Rushmore to be very impressive. All that rock and work carved into a mountain. Pretty cool.

What's also cool is helping ourselves to an East Coast favorite we had been deprived of for quite some time. Thick crust Pizza Hut pizza! YUMMMMMMM! Besides fields, barns, and pizza hut there are also hundreds of signs for the Wall Drug Store! We had to go and see what it was all about.
Our night time general store stop included a 5cent coffee for Tim and a pair of VERY attractive clip on sunglasses for me. Sorry South Dakota but I wasn't impressed. However, we could drive quite a bit faster there than we could once we hit Minnesota, Wisconsin or Illinois.
As we entered Illinois we were planning on finding a campsite since it wasn't too late at night. So much for that. We hit a mosterous thunder storm and had to stay at another hotel. It was our first REAL thunder storm since we left the East Coast. They don't have thunder storms in CA. The next day we set off for the last stretch of our trek to the border. Around Lake Michigan, through Indiana, through Michigan and into CANADA!!!!

OH CANADA!!!

Stay tuned for more about our summer.