Greetings from Billings, Montana!
Just one of the many glamorous locations we've visited on this trip. Others include Erie, Pennsylvania, Fairmont, Minnesota, Rapid City, South Dakota and Chicago, Illinois. And okay, I'll grant Chicago can be seen as glamorous, but not the part we stayed in. Melissa thinks the motel in Chicago was trying to be glamorous, with all black furnishings and such, but if she's right that's just sad because they were in no way successful. Not a bad place, but not glamorous.
Okay, other stuff. Hurm. We saw the MIssissippi! By which I mean the river, not the state, which I'd think would be obvious by my use of the word "the" but it gave my mother some trouble so I point it out. We also saw the Missouri (again, the river, not the state. Or the World War II battleship, come to think of it). We saw a Corn Palace in South Dakota that was not only not much of a palace but also not made entirely of corn. They just nail a bunch of corncobs onto a building and call it a palace. Not only do they call it a palace, but they call it "The Boston Garden Of The Mid-West" because it's got a rinky-dink basketball court inside. I came very close to killing someone over that, believe you me. Bad enough they tore the real Garden down, and now we've got South Dakotans taking its name in vain?
We also saw Mt. Rushmore, which was definitely impressive, so no snarking there. And we've seen lots and lots and lots of empty fields and crops, most of it corn. There's a lot of corn growing in this great nation of ours. So far Wyoming is the only state we haven't seen corn-fields in. Wyoming was just grass/hay and livestock, as near as we could tell. They did have cheaper gas than anywhere else, though, an unbelieveable $2.59 a gallon. As an aside, I'm pretty sure that we're going to spend more on gas this trip than on renting the damned truck. What the hell is all that about?
I think that's all I have to say right now.
Okay, other stuff. Hurm. We saw the MIssissippi! By which I mean the river, not the state, which I'd think would be obvious by my use of the word "the" but it gave my mother some trouble so I point it out. We also saw the Missouri (again, the river, not the state. Or the World War II battleship, come to think of it). We saw a Corn Palace in South Dakota that was not only not much of a palace but also not made entirely of corn. They just nail a bunch of corncobs onto a building and call it a palace. Not only do they call it a palace, but they call it "The Boston Garden Of The Mid-West" because it's got a rinky-dink basketball court inside. I came very close to killing someone over that, believe you me. Bad enough they tore the real Garden down, and now we've got South Dakotans taking its name in vain?
We also saw Mt. Rushmore, which was definitely impressive, so no snarking there. And we've seen lots and lots and lots of empty fields and crops, most of it corn. There's a lot of corn growing in this great nation of ours. So far Wyoming is the only state we haven't seen corn-fields in. Wyoming was just grass/hay and livestock, as near as we could tell. They did have cheaper gas than anywhere else, though, an unbelieveable $2.59 a gallon. As an aside, I'm pretty sure that we're going to spend more on gas this trip than on renting the damned truck. What the hell is all that about?
I think that's all I have to say right now.