BC trip - Day 2, 3, 4, 5
/* Day 2 */
Cleaned up and showered and prepped for our long drive to St Paul. I am going to be driving today, after we get out of Chicago, this should be interesting. I'm not the best at driving standard transmissions.
So we drove into Minneapolis, Minnosota, and found a motel right next to the Mall of America. The motel was the Courtyard. It was nice, free internet and continental breakfast. A late dinner at TGIF and then sleep.
/* Day 3 */
Showered up and packed up the car, walked through the Mall of America, just a large mall surrounding a mini-amusement park. There were two rollercoasters, only one was in operation so we took it for a spin, not bed but rather expensive for one ride ($ 4.80).
We drove to Darwin, home of the World's Largest Ball of Twine, which was rather interesting. They don't add to it like I thought they did. The Country Saloon was an excellent place for lunch, hamburgers they were and good too.
Now the drive, into North Dakota, stopping in Bismark for gas and a few other places, we plowed through the state, hoping to make it
We did, at the wee hours of the morning, then slept at a cheap motel 6 ($42 US a night for two people). The next day....
/* Day 4 */
Now we're in Montana, we get up and drive along to Billings and decide to head south to Yellowstone National Park, taking a great road that runs along Beartooth Pass, 11 000ft above sea level. The road was closed, too early to open it, so we attempted to drive to the souther part to see Old Faithful, but that turned to be closed as well, the only entrance was from the north-west corner. Oh well. We drove back (4 hours later) arriving at Billings and drive along to Missula.
On the way we stopped in Livingston Montana for a lovely dinner at Clark Crossing. Very quaint little mountain town Livingston was, as were many such as Cody Wyoming (southern part of Yellowstone).
We arrived fairly late in Missula and found another Motel 6. Got up this morning, visited Starbucks and started Day 5. Of course I forgot to mention the INSANE number of casinos, yeah like a town of 30 000 has about 10 Casinos, some really dive-bar like, we never went in of course, but still. I think Montana is attempting to rival Nevada, by numbers only ha ha.
/* Day 5 */
Here we drive to Seattle, through the Rocky Mountains, through Snoqualime or something like that, some 3000ft above sea level and gorgeous pictures.
The basin was next, inbetween the ranges, and man was that boring, it was like North Dakota, boring as shit. Finally we hit more mountains and they were gorgeous and breathtaking. Seattle is right at the bottom of them. And what a hilly town this is, the friggin streets have an 18% grade (18 degree angle) which is NUTS.
We just finished dinner at an amazing Italian restaurant, Assaggio, really Italian and really really good. The food was just amazing.
Not sure what to do now, as Rodney and Graeme and a few people Kevin knows are here but we do not have their MSN or any way of contacting them. So here we sit in the motel wondering what to do in Seattle.
Tomorrow we do more touring and then head to Vancouver.
Cleaned up and showered and prepped for our long drive to St Paul. I am going to be driving today, after we get out of Chicago, this should be interesting. I'm not the best at driving standard transmissions.
So we drove into Minneapolis, Minnosota, and found a motel right next to the Mall of America. The motel was the Courtyard. It was nice, free internet and continental breakfast. A late dinner at TGIF and then sleep.
/* Day 3 */
Showered up and packed up the car, walked through the Mall of America, just a large mall surrounding a mini-amusement park. There were two rollercoasters, only one was in operation so we took it for a spin, not bed but rather expensive for one ride ($ 4.80).
We drove to Darwin, home of the World's Largest Ball of Twine, which was rather interesting. They don't add to it like I thought they did. The Country Saloon was an excellent place for lunch, hamburgers they were and good too.
Now the drive, into North Dakota, stopping in Bismark for gas and a few other places, we plowed through the state, hoping to make it
We did, at the wee hours of the morning, then slept at a cheap motel 6 ($42 US a night for two people). The next day....
/* Day 4 */
Now we're in Montana, we get up and drive along to Billings and decide to head south to Yellowstone National Park, taking a great road that runs along Beartooth Pass, 11 000ft above sea level. The road was closed, too early to open it, so we attempted to drive to the souther part to see Old Faithful, but that turned to be closed as well, the only entrance was from the north-west corner. Oh well. We drove back (4 hours later) arriving at Billings and drive along to Missula.
On the way we stopped in Livingston Montana for a lovely dinner at Clark Crossing. Very quaint little mountain town Livingston was, as were many such as Cody Wyoming (southern part of Yellowstone).
We arrived fairly late in Missula and found another Motel 6. Got up this morning, visited Starbucks and started Day 5. Of course I forgot to mention the INSANE number of casinos, yeah like a town of 30 000 has about 10 Casinos, some really dive-bar like, we never went in of course, but still. I think Montana is attempting to rival Nevada, by numbers only ha ha.
/* Day 5 */
Here we drive to Seattle, through the Rocky Mountains, through Snoqualime or something like that, some 3000ft above sea level and gorgeous pictures.
The basin was next, inbetween the ranges, and man was that boring, it was like North Dakota, boring as shit. Finally we hit more mountains and they were gorgeous and breathtaking. Seattle is right at the bottom of them. And what a hilly town this is, the friggin streets have an 18% grade (18 degree angle) which is NUTS.
We just finished dinner at an amazing Italian restaurant, Assaggio, really Italian and really really good. The food was just amazing.
Not sure what to do now, as Rodney and Graeme and a few people Kevin knows are here but we do not have their MSN or any way of contacting them. So here we sit in the motel wondering what to do in Seattle.
Tomorrow we do more touring and then head to Vancouver.