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Catholic Guilt Location: St. Louis Also, she was trying to make up for the fact that they had planned to give St. Louis a day and a half, and ultimately didn't even stop for gas. Hence, lots of highway pics. After this, it was just a long day of driving: more of lovely Missouri, then Oklahoma (dubbed *parental advisory* "a fucking hell-hole of a miserable shit state"), and, finally, rest, in Dallas, at 1 a.m.
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More Teton Grandness Location: Grand Teton National Park
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Dinner with Angie Location: China Hill We went out to a place called China Hill to enjoy a bit of dinner after our long day of driving. Featured is Angie, who let us crash at her swank living quarters for a couple days. (and who provided us with countless hours of Mr. Show, The Simpsons, Anime, and fun)
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Death and regrowth Location: Yellowstone There was a really big forest fire in yellowstone in '89 and another in the mid-ninties (I think). Huge tracts in the park were covered with burnt down trees, but this really wasn't depressing because the ground was covered with thousands of baby pines growing up to replace them. The whole cyclical, natural aura got us both into a very Zen-like state and helped us apprecaite what was to come.
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Quick fix Location: the outskirts of Spokane It was nothing a bit of duct tape wouldn't fix until we got our grubby paws on a soldering iron.
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One last glimpse Location: the outskirts of the MS campus Our last look at the ol' M$ campus on the way out.
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Denver on the horizon Location: the outskirts of Denver We stayed the night with a friend of Drew's in Denver.
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Die, little elves, die Location: Homestead Apartments This is the ONLY thing we had to snack on the whole trip out. We will never eat another one of these again. Now, we're off!!
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The dynamic duo visit YARBAL Location: Yellowstone National park It really is purty.
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An(n) Elk Location: Yellowstone This one's for you, mom. ; )
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A new state Location: the WA-MO border We cross into Montana, the home of the forest fires.
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smoking hill Location: western Montana We caught the tail end of a fire right by the highway. Wow.
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Death and regrowth Location: Yellowstone There was a really big forest fire in yellowstone in '89 and another in the mid-ninties (I think). Huge tracts in the park were covered with burnt down trees, but this really wasn't depressing because the ground was covered with thousands of baby pines growing up to replace them. The whole cyclical, natural aura got us both into a very Zen-like state and helped us apprecaite what was to come.
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State Number...what is it now? Location: St. Louis Part of the ongoing quest to document every state visited.
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Boiling ground Location: Yellowstone As Julie promised, the geyser basin didn't always smell great, but it was cool looking. The mud was boiling. I'm serious. We needed some digital video action for this whole park.
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Wildlife Location: Yellowstone There were some amazingly tame elk wandering around the road, very uninterested in human onlookers.
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Location: St. Louis She wasn't sure how close they would come on the highway, so she started snapping when they crossed the Mississippi and didn't stop until they passed the stupid thing.
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The Tetons Location: Grand Teton National Park are grand. Um... yeah.
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Sulfur and Water and Wood Location: Yellowstone Bryan gets all artistic, 'n stuff.
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A fire Location: Western Montana we'd heard about them on the news, but here is an authentic Montana forest fire.
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smoky horizon Location: western Montana the air was fogged by smoke from all the fires...
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EE fun Location: the outskirts of Spokane our very important car adapter for the mac simply would not work after the abuse of sitting in a drawer all summer. it turns out one of the rather flimsy wires that attached the power cord to the transformer had broken.