(One) Liner Notes May 29-31

-  South Dakota is truly beautiful.
-  The Missouri River really is wide.
-  South Dakota on the west side of the Missouri looks completely different from how it looks on the east side.
-  The Badlands is an incredible sight, and I'd like to return.
-  Some of the Badlands topography looks like conglomerate rock and some looks like elephant skin.
-  The texture of the formations in the Badlands is like wet, sticky clay.
-  Wall Drug is really like a mall with many stores and a Western theme.
-  The good thing about the rain on May 29th was that is wasn't snow!

-  The Corn Palace is a large building covered in murals made out of corn and other grains, and the murals are changed yearly.
-  Mt. Rushmore was awesome!
-  The Master Weatherman was sooo good to us on Monday, parting the clouds to reveal glorious sunshine and crystal blue skies while we were at Mt. Rushmore.

-  Devil's Tower was interesting.
-  Sheridan, WY is an impressively clean, neat town.
-  Deep fried dill pickles with either ranch dressing or peanut butter are available in Sheridan WY.
-   When driving across the plains you cannot tell how fast you're going until you glance down and see the odometer needle much farther to the right than it's been since the last time you were in WY-----fun!
-  Because WY is so uber large, it still takes a very long time to get from point A to point B even though you're hurtling down the road at 90 MPH!
-  The Sheridan, WY phone book covers approximately 8,000 sq. mi.------I'm dead serious.
-  We saw a horizon 60 mi. away and our road 9 miles away at one point.
-  It's still fun watching for antelope.
-  The Western sky is incomparable with amazing clouds that change constantly.
-  The wind still blows incessantly so that wind chill should be part of the weather forecast all year long.
-  William Fredrick Cody, aka Buffalo Bill, was not only busy hunting buffalo and putting on shows but also visiting many bars in many towns that have later boasted about his visits.

-  Montana should be called, " The Mountain State" instead of "Big Sky".
-  Temperatures across southern MT this morning were in the 30's and this afternoon in the 50's-low 60's.
-  Montana is also HUGE with very high mountains everywhere.
.  The mountains are still very snow covered, looking like someone dusted them with a heavy coating of powdered sugar.
-  Nels saw a coyote and I saw a sand hill crane today. (Tues.)

-  We have now driven almost 2,500 miles.
-  We have enjoyed every minute of it---honest.

-  We have now driven half of the amount we have to drive.
-  Tomorrow, Wed., we drive to Seattle where driving on the interstate system way too fast ends!
-  Above pictures top to bottom: 1) Badlands, 2-4) Three Rushmore pictures with the weather improving, 5) along the road in Montana, 6) the Corn palace.

-  Finally, a Maserati doesn't really look any different from other sports cars, and sometimes it's a fat, old man in shorts driving instead of Fabio.