Greetings from the Road

Gwenny checking out the sights
Big Horn National Park

What a day! It took us most of the day to drive through Wyoming. Kurt only yelled at me once...when I couldn't get my camera to work fast enough to take a picture of the buffalo that was walking beside our car! It was surreal! I was a nervous wreck...I kept thinking Gwenny would start barking at the buffalo and then it would start ramming our car. I just wanted to get out of there.

Unexpectedly, we drove through Big Horn National Park at one point today. I think we hit an elevation of 9000 feet..another long, windy, and narrow road up! It was so worth the trip up to this elevation even though our ears have been popping all day. We went to dinner and could barely hear our waitress. At one point I think she just thought we were rude.

We finally made it to South Dakota and visited Mount Rushmore and the Badlands. Of course we had to listen to Badlands by Bruce on our trek in to the real Badlands. That was for you Katie.

One thing I noticed in this part of the country is that life moves at a much slower pace. It seems like no one is in a hurry. I went to a small grocery store today to buy something we could take on the road for lunch. I asked for 1/4 of a pound of deli meat, sliced thin. The woman was so sweet, "I think that might be about 20 slices dear." She sliced, counted one (literally), put in down on the paper...she sliced, counted two, and put it down on the paper...and so on. It took 15 minutes!! When she weighed it, it was not a full 1/4 of a pound. "Oh, I think I need to go back and slice you six more pieces," she said. I was 25 minutes in this store and I was the only person in line at the deli! The good news...the speed limit is 75. They move a bit faster on the roads.