From the road

So I had intended to write more while we’ve been on our road trip across the country, but Internet service has either been spotty or in some cases totally non-existent. I think most of South Dakota is without at least cell service. The town of Wall (our Tuesday night stop) had no cell & no interwebs, so we’ve been out of touch for almost two days. Thankfully we picked up walkie talkies on the way, so while Dean is in the u-haul & I’m in the car we can communicate.

So now to catch you all up -
We left Alabama Sunday morning and made it to just outside of St Louis MO that evening. Relatively uneventful drive, once the drugs kicked in for the cat.

Monday morning started with rush hour and a less than stellar breakfast. Add to that a stressed cat, a stressed child, and then a stressed me and it wasn’t one of our best days. But we made it to Omaha Nebraska, where we spent an over priced night. Woke up to rain, but no rush hour (thankfully). Cat & child did much better and we ended the day in Wall South Dakota. The scenery once we got out of Missouri improved immensely. South Dakota and today Wyoming have been incredibly beautiful.

So after spending the night in Wall, we headed on to Mt Rushmore for a quick visit. It is definitely on our list of places to go back and see again. Along with some of the other sites that we’ve passed along the way.

After traveling some back roads, we wound up back on I 90, which has brought us to Buffalo Wyoming. Here we have settled in for the evening, doing laundry, a quick swim, and dinner. Tomorrow we continue on. We’ll head towards Yellowstone, stopping off in a town just before to board the animals for two nights. We are planning on spending a day (Friday) at Yellowstone, before heading on to Idaho on Saturday. If all goes well we should pull in to Redmond some time on Sunday and hopefully find a place to live Monday.

I’ll post pictures once I can get back on my computer. In the meantime, follow along here or Facebook for updates.