A few final photos from my road trip

After this, I am finished posting photos from my road trip... I think. At least until I get my Holga's back!

Montana camp fire. I didn't take many photos in Montana. I think I was getting tired at this point or shooting more with my Holga. It was nice in Montana, we stayed near Missoula, which is a pretty laid-back town. Lots of people watching and lots of very good beer. We had some from Kettlehouse, an amazing ale. Since the mountain biking was pretty epic out there, my plans to mountain bike across the west got thwarted and redirected to beer sampling across the west.  Which was fine by me!

Dan is an expert pancake flipper. One of the best things while camping is breakfasts! My favorite is pancakes with peanut butter and maple syrup. Then you won't have to eat again until dinner.

North Dakota sunset. I never would have thought North Dakota would be so beautiful! I was humming "Home on the Range" for a long time.

This is kind of out of order, but these are the mountains in Wyoming as we were driving out west.

The Dakotas

I was trying to figure out how to post about my Western road trip and I decided to post by state, since we spent a lot of time in certain states. For example I spent a lot of time driving through the Dakotas. We got to South Dakota after leaving Wisconsin on Tuesday evening. We wanted to leave by six, but it always seems to take exceptionally longer to pack than I think it will.

Driving around 3 am through South Dakota. There is seriously nothing out there. Shortly after this we hit a very large raccoon. My boyfriend claims it was "as large as a bear cub." Thankfully, upon closer inspection, we didn't get a flat, just a cracked bumper and torn interior fender. It would have been horrible since the doughnut tire was in the trunk under all our stuff and there were 50 mph cold winds coming across the prairie. We put the fender in the car so we wouldn't litter, but it was covered with raccoon "juice" so we had to toss it out. I couldn't sleep much after that.

Dawn over South Dakota

We hit the Badlands around 5 or 6 am and the light was perfect. I have never been there, so it was pretty impressive. It was like the prairie just suddenly dropped off and these rock formations took over.

The morning light woke me up from grogginess.

The Badlands

More Badlands

Wall Drug, South Dakota. We stopped for breakfast, it wasn't very good.

North Dakota prairie on the way back