Today was the last straw. Not really, but we were getting pretty sick of the car. Having a wall of crap behind you can cause claustrophobia pretty quickly, and 6 days of it is no small feat. We did dilly dally a bit in terms of driving. Rather than hop on the interstate or even take a direct route, we drove all over the place in the black hills. We drove past Mt. Rushmore, and went to the Crazy Horse Memorial but pulled a U-turn when we found out it was $10 per person. What a rip. Then we drove through Thunder Basin National Grassland, which was pretty predictable in hindsight. BUT we got to see the largest surface coal mine in North America!!! It was really huge and depressing! They had the most enormous dump trucks I’ve ever seen. If one of the tires were laying flat it would span a two-lane highway. There were also these giant elevators that had trains running through them and filling with coal to go all over the country to provide power – lovely, sooty, dirty, dusty power. Hoorayyyy! That was very exciting. We were able to stop off at our place in Fort Collins to unload the car into the shed in the backyard, but we weren’t able to go in yet, since we’re not getting the keys til tomorrow. Now it's on to Denver to see my good friend Bryce whom I met while abroad in Australia. More tomorrow.
Today’s playlist:
Blitzen Trapper – Wild Mountain Nation
Blitzen Trapper – Furr
Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Live Rust
Neil Young – Harvest
The Rifles –
AC Newman – Slow Wonder
Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Blitzen Trapper – Field Rexx
The Beatles – White Album
Born Ruffians – Red, Yellow and Blue
Caribou – Milk of Human Kindness
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