NADAC Championships - Part the Second

On the road again! The long stretch between between Minnesota and Wyoming called SOUTH DAKOTA!! I love this state dearly, but can I just tell you how LOOOONG Interstate 90 really is. One of the parts I have really come to like is where you cross the Missouri river and it starts to look like South Dakota. It's just like magic.

Cop shots part deux, I finally got one!

My girlfriend Nicolette who took this journey with me last year could not come this year. Because I missed her so much and in her honor we stopped again in 1880 Town so that I could see if it was as creepy (it wasn't) and to get her a postcard. Lot's of silly dog pictures ensued.

The town itself

Good sports with the bathtub
...still good sports with the stagecoach. I think this one is so cute!
Raven in all of her cuteness.
Here is a shot of the back of town
In the back they have 2 of the mules they used in the movie Dances With Wolves. They used to have Cisco, Kevin Costner's horse, I saw him last year. But he died in August. :( That is this place's big "draw" is all the Dances With Wolves stuff. They have all kinds of props like the dead buffalos and tepees and stuff. They also have a camel. WOOHOOO! It's a thrill ride.

This was the last stop of any photographic interest on the way to Wyoming. I did forget to mention in part the first about the fact that we had a cartop luggage carrier on the van holding most of my parents' luggage and my dad and Josh's fly fishing gear. Well it was pretty noisy most of day one and two. Well on this, day 3 it was DEAFENING!!! It was making this high-pitched whistle that was driving me out of my mind. I am not exaggerating. It actually affected my hearing for a little while it was so bad. I finally stopped at one of the rest stops in Wyoming and stuffed cotton balls in the dog's ears so they didn't go deaf too! They did seem to settle pretty well after that. :) So after about 10 hours of that beautiful music we pulled into the Clarion in Gillette Wyoming!! It was perfect, we listened to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince on CD on the way out and it ended about 10 miles outside of Gillette. Couldn't have planned it better!

Upon checking in and returning to the car, I noticed that the cartop carrier was half smashed with stuff hanging out the back... YEESH! The wind is insane out there in the land of no trees. It must have just crushed it with the pressure. Luckily nothing fell out completely. We pitched the cursed thing in the dumpster right there in the parking lot. Silence at LAAAAAST!

Unpacking and settling in was in order. Tomorrow we go to Devil's Tower!

*To Be Continued*