Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Day 4, Part II: To the Presidents' Faces!

Blogging from Sundance, WY.

Some snapshots on the drive out of Yellowstone and across Wyoming on the SD870.

Snow! In the summer!


Some rock thing we drove by / under:


More scenery:


Lake in Buffalo Bill State Park:


Cody, Wyoming:


Must be a big town! They have a Wal-Mart! Note the hills in the background:


I'd love to make this drive again in the future in a convertible, possibly a Miata:


5U? Yup, his license plate is just 5U. What a beast license plate number. You can only pull off something like this in a state like Wyoming.


Didn't know Wyoming is LDS/Mormon country:


These three-wheeled motorcycle things are pretty popular in Wyoming:


More road scenery:



Standard mountain driving maneuver - overtaking:


Free science lesson: air pressure is higher at lower altitude and lower in higher altitude. This is what our water bottle looks like after we descended 5,000 feet:


This speaks for itself:


What the heck is octane 85.5???


Blasting down the I-90 at dusk:


I leave you, my two readers, with this shot today:


Mt. Rushmore and South Dakota tomorrow!

Miles covered today: 440
Road trip mileage count: 1,639
States visited: Wyoming
Miles to Columbus, OH: 1,375

P.S. I lost the tumbleweed roof rack trophy :(

6 comments:

Kelly Lee said...

i like the last pic! what an adventure...=)

Anna J. Tang said...

beautiful! hhaha i love the random pics like the crazy woman creek! haha

Gaultier said...

woot, sounds exciting

Will said...

man, what's all this nature going on here? should probably get out of socal once in a while!

Billy said...

@anna: no one would believe me if I didn't have a picture of Crazy Woman Creek to prove it!

tumbalina3 said...

your blog is so entertaining! makes me wanna get a little web space of my own.. :)