Wolf? Coyote? I can never tell.

I learn the difference and then forget it before it becomes pertinent. Like c#.

In any case, we saw this guy just outside the campground. We also heard wolves howl at night. That was really cool, but made Jeff want to sleep in the car. I explained that after years of living near society wolves can open most car locks and he was just as safe in the tent where 2/3 of the time the wolves would choose to eat someone else. That calmed him down.

10,947 and windy as hell!

Just Beautiful

Kids are bitching that I didn't bring them out in the convertible.

There's never a gypsy when you need one.

On our way again

We stopped at Little Big Horn. It's kind of impressive the length they go to make out like Custer wasn't a glory hog-idiot. They had a great quote from one of the Indian scouts that was basically "I'd never seen more Indians in one place before, none of the scouts thought the white men could win, but they said we were going to fight"

There was also a quote that explained just how much of a paradigm shift the native Americans were facing. A Crow scout talked about how the Crow chiefs felt that fighting the other three tribes with the Whites was the only way to preserve their land and way of life.

We stopped in Billings and are now leaving for Yellowstone.

View from the tent

We hit Devil's Tower last night about 9:30. We had hoped to see Jewel Cave but it turned out that it closed at 8 and we were the just after.

The rental is really messing with the blog because I am always driving and never able to process photos from my camera.

We made it back

Here is the picture from the starting point/finishing point

We Climbed Those

Not the buttes in the back, the Boulders in the front. This is the view of the Boulder field below Devil's Tower from the Tower.

Huh. I can't believe this exists.

Cutting Out The Middle Man!

The Story So Far

Left 7:30pm 7/24
Indiana Dunes and asleep by 2, Jacob drove most of IN part!
7/25
Chicago, GFD the traffic
Rockford UU church, reminiscing!
Wisonsin. Cheese!
Car breaks in Wisconsin Dells, the water park capital of the world!
Stay at Yogi Bear park, hate it.
Car is going to take till at least Tuesday so we rent an Accord for the rest of the trip. No second driver, no convertible. Car moves, though, making it a better choice.

We drive from Wisconsin Dells to the Badlands, stopping only at the Spam museumm and a 60-Foot statue of the Jolly Green Ginat in Blue Earth.

Explored Badlands and Wall yesterday. We saw the Wounded Knee Museum and may one day have to go the Holocaust Museum to find a more depressing museum. Loved the park, hated th bugs. I have hopes that the Black-Footed Ferret reintroduction project works, because Prairie Dogs are a plague (and they carry plague, too! Or their fleas do, whatever) Prairie Dog vs Ferret would just be the most adorable animal fight ever.

Today, we see Rushmore and, perhaps Jewel Cave.

wtf?

Middle of nowhere, South Dakota private residence. giant plastic dinosaur. I assume the guy is single.

Quick, before it spoils!

Badlands Entrance

Black River Delta at Mississippi River

Black and Mississippi Delta

Fwd: They were happy once.....Before the trip

Lessons Re-learned

July 25, 3:09 AM

If you leave late, you arrive late

Second Drivers are great

The pricing scheme for fast food on the turnpike is ridiculous, if you
exit the turnpike to get food, you normally don't pay extra in toll
and you save on food.

Hi to all!,

Chicago tomorrow. When I am heard to utter, "This isn't even rush hour".

What?

Here it is, the blog I am starting for our trip. Somewhere to throw some quick pictures and offer quick commentary on our 2008 Road Trip