Yikes, we figured we could just roll into anywhere around Rapid City, SD and/or Rushmore tonight and grab a cheap hotel. I guess I should've figured that wouldn't work. Apparently there are some soccer and softball tournaments going on in the area and all the hotels are booked. We ended up somewhat lucking out and getting a room with 2 queens at the Comfort Inn (their last vacant room that just got canceled 15 minutes earlier - Thanks to Amy for finding that for us), for the low low price of $129.99 + tax (ha, oh well).
We camped out last night at Yellowstone, going to bed promptly at 1:30 (or so) after a heated game of 29. I then proceed to wake up 2 to 3 times in the middle of the night, followed by a final "f-it, I'm up" at 5am. I would like to point out that this in no way had anything to do with Harsh snoring away 3 feet from me. Just wanted to make sure that was clear. ;-) Normally that wouldn't bother me but I think the whole environment and the cold coupled with that was what did it. Finally got rolling after breakfast around 8:30. We were able to get in a lot more of the attractions than I thought we would. Saw Old Faithful, paint pots, random geysers, the falls, Yellowstone Lake, and plenty of wildlife. I will upload some pictures later, as I forgot to bring the camera in from the car. I think the highlight was probably the black bear that walked right by the car about 5 feet away from us. That was pretty cool.
Driving through Wyoming sucked... It was about 6 hours from Yellowstone to where we are now -- about 20 miles from Mt. Rushmore. I am excited about moving on to see Denver tomorrow though after seeing Rushmore. We are going to check out a house model or two there as well.
That's it for now... ready to crash.
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Ha-ha just looked at the pictures, Guys please don't exceed posted speed limits!!! Going 930 km/h (578 mph) may not be safest thing to do. But you getting close to Mach 1 (761.2 mph). When you push that, I would love to see a picture of that "vapor cone" - Prandtl-Glauert singularity effect (yes i had to google it)
--Sergey
P.S. Am I the only one leaving stupid comments?
haha nice. Yeah that was pretty cool, got a satellite lock on the gps in the plane out of the little window.
Yeah I think you are the only one posting comments. You are definitely the only one using the term "Prandti-Glauert singularity effect." :-)
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