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I love the open flat areas with plenty of visibility where you can really open it up.
We’ll hit the Pacific Ocean in no time at all. 
We’re in Sundance! No, not Robert Redford’s Sundance. Sundance Kid’s Sundance …in Wyoming!
We just started our day after camping out at the Mountain View Campground. Jessica found us a $29 tent at Target a few weeks ago that I’ve been thoroughly impress with – as much as one could be thoroughly impressed by a $29 tent I guess. We got into the campground late last night around 10:30p after a nutritious meal a Applebee’s. The camp was almost full and completely silent, dark, and super windy – you can imagine what a pleasure it was to set up the tent in those conditions. Fortunately, Jess and I managed to get the tent up in record time without reading the instructions (eventhough it was our first time setting it up.) We did, however, spend most of the night wondering if the wind was going to blow our tent away or even worse knock over the tree that was hovering directly above us.
This morning, I think Jessica had the highlight of her trip when she actually got to take a shower at the camp. I think she spent the last 1,300 miles talking about how she really wanted to shower.
Next up this morning is Devils Tower National Monument. We’ll feed you some pics momentarily. But for those with no patience, expect to see a large rock formation jutting out of the ground like a, well, tower.
For now, we’ll get back our breakfast and free Wifi!
Update:
Here are a few a pic from Devils Tower…
Apparently Devils Tower is iconic and synonymous enough with Wyoming that it appears on their license plates.
If you’re my buddy Jerome, you’ll never think of Mt. Rushmore in the same way ever again. He’s spent the last couple of weeks working on a new campaign for the US Mint and their new $1 Dollar coin. (As a side note, I did the color on their spots). His challenge in one of the spots was to make the founding fathers engraved into the face of Mt. Rushmore SMILE. Yes, make them smile. If you’ve ever seen a photo of Mt. Rushmore, you’ll know that they are not portrayed in the most cheerful way to begin with. They all look expressionless and like they are ready to take on some serious business – like founding their own country. Well, as you can imagine making them smile was not the easiest thing to do. Disappointedly, I spent every moment I was at Mt. Rushmore, waiting for them to smile – it never happened. The good news is that I did bring back Jerome a little souvenir that he’ll get a kick out of and I’ll let him guess what that is.
Notice that in the pic of the viewer/telescope that it takes 2 quarters to use the device. What the US Mint is proposing is that a single $1 coin would make it much easier…wait a second does that mean that the price of these this is going up? Doubling in fact! Are vending machines next? Is it fair to assume that we’ll start seeing the cost of these things rounded up to the nearest dollar? Damn. My $0.02.
