I have to say that this adventure took a lot of organization and planning - which I love to do. In fact it helped me get through the winter by having something fun to plan and look forward too. My only worry was that it wasn't going to go according to plan. I had to plan where we would stay, how much it would cost for lodging, food, and incidentals. Luckily we didn't have to pay for gas because we took Mike's company car - a great perk for his job. That's actually why we even considered doing this because we figured we saved $1500 in gas. I also had to order tickets for different events, and then figure the routes we would be taking. I'm happy to say it all worked out. Here's our Itinerary:
Our trip started a little later than scheduled because Kellie went on an Alaskan cruise with her cousins the week before. Lucky girl - she got to go to 23 states. But poor girl because she had to be in the car 16 hours longer than the rest of us. Because of the cruise she didn't get back into Spokane until 8:00 Friday night. So instead of us starting on our journey early Friday morning and getting into Rapid City, SD that night, we opted to drive through the night and then get to Mt. Rushmore around 1:00pm Saturday, making it a total of 22 hours that first day. Mike was a trooper when it came to driving. He didn't mind at all driving through the night and it actually made that first leg go a lot faster.
So our first stop was Mt. Rushmore. Saturday, June 29. It was pretty impressive, but didn't seem as large as we had expected. We had our photo op and headed back in the car. When you have to see as many things as we did with the amount of time that we had, that's pretty much how we experienced it - fast. We look a little scraggly after having been in the car all night, but it was fun to not only get out of the car and walk around, but to be able see something amazing that is part of this great country.
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