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Published: September 5th 2009
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Bay off of Mississippi River
This is the view from where we camped in La Crosse, Wisconsin The car is officially our home. Car chargers, dirty clothes, random fruit and bags of chips.... Our belongings are in every crack and crevice of that thing. If you're planning a trip out west and would like to hear some reviews, I'll make an entry at the end of places we have been to for sleeping, eating, and anything else I can't think of at the moment.
Currently, I'm sitting in our room at a Holiday Inn in Colorado, Alex is sleeping, and it's only 9:35 p.m.
We've been tent camping, but the need for wi-fi to e-mail freelance projects and electricity to juice up a few batteries brought us here.
I didn't shower for almost four days. The layers of sweat, sunscreen, and Off were past due for being scrubbed off. We camped in the Badlands National Park in South Dakota, sleeping under a black sky and a moon that was so bright, you almost didn't need a flashlight (I still used one to be on Prairie Rattlesnake Patrol. No electricity, no water. Wild, freely roaming Bison....hundreds and hundreds of Prairie Dogs that eventually got me about as excited as seeing a squirrel...and mother nature's beauty
Alex
Waiting for me while I went to shower or something. at its best. The area was dubbed Badlands by Indians who couldn't use the area to grow food easily and early French trappers who had difficultly crossing the land.
Alex had picked up some el cheapo wine from Aldi. Three buck chuck might have some serious competition. As the sun went down, we drank wine from the bottle, snacked on cheese and crackers, and entertained ourselves with the local grasshoppers.
Wyoming was a drag. Mostly boring drive, which eventually turned a little mountainous. We camped at the Glendo State Park. It was twenty past seven, we had been driving all day, and the camp store had closed at 7. Our Buffalo Bratwurst were not going to cook themselves and firewood was in order. We had decided to grab some wood and leave money in the door. Most places we've camped at had similar policies, so we didn't think much of it....that is...until we heard,
"Get the HELL out of my fire wood!" from a lady in a house up a ways. We thought she was joking.
No.
She wasn't.
She took a while to calm down because obviously we were stealing her wood. After giving
her a few extra bucks and apologizing a thousand times, she said,
"You just don't know what it's like being a business owner around here and the kind of people that come through here." I'd say.
It put a whole new light on the Midwestern Hospitality.
The evening was warm enough that we could leave our tent open and less layers were required. The park was mostly empty and the spacing made it seem like we were the only two out there.
Once in Denver, we scoped out a Y to work out and....
shower! We had a great meal at a microbrewery and here we are. Home sweet holiday inn home.
From here, we're doing a loop around the state of Colorado and looking to be in Morrison, CO on the 9th for The Killers; a concert at the Red Rock Amphitheater. I'll let the pictures do the rest of the story telling.
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mommsie
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very nice
Another wonderful entry, good to see you're enjoying the trip! xxoo