2:21... actually 1:21AM Mountain time. Last night we drove from Chicago to a small town on the boarder of Wisconsin and Minnesota called La Crosse . We slept in Katie's car at a rest stop outside of town. It was an ugly and charming and intimate night.
Today as we stopped to gas up and eat we found out that we were right next to the badlands in South Dakota. Well we stopped there and took a lot of amazing pictures. It is an amazingly beautiful place. I will be posting some onto the website at some point.
Tonight we are in Billings, Montana. Over the last 27 hours we have driven a total of 1300 miles. This boggles my mind and I am one of the people who is doing it!
Once we got into Billings we drove around trying to find a cheap motel room to stay in for the night, but after driving to 4 or 5 different el cheap motels all of which had no vacancy signs up we decided to bite the bullet and get a spendy nice room. But alas those were full too! Katie asked a clerk why rooms were so scarce and it turns out Billings is being graced by the presence of one of the redneck holy circle... no not jeff foxworthy... the other one... Larry the cable guy. needless to say there was a loud groan and a forehead slap coming out of the car when the news was broken to me. We finally found one place downtown that had rooms for rent and here we are. One funny thing about this specific Billings motel is that every 4 ft in the parking lot there are signs that say "make sure to take all of your valuables out of vehicles. Management is not responsible for (basically anything that gets stolen)".
Tomorrow we try for Spokane, WA were my mother and sister live. Then Omak and Home to Olympia.
861 miles to go,
-B
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