Cross Country Trip Days 8-11

On the 4th of July (our 8th day) we stopped in Minneapolis to see Becky. I left my camera in the hotel so we could just hang out.

The 9th day we drove from Minnesota through Wisconsin and Illinois and into Indiana.

We stopped outside of Chicago for deep dish pizza! It was delicious.




Day 10 we woke up in South Bend Indiana and decided to do a quick drive by of the Notre Dame Campus since we were in town.




From there we drove to Cleveland where we spent the night.

Day 11 we hit the Rock and Roll hall of Fame (no pictures allowed inside).




We were done by lunch time and drove all the way to Bethlehem that night. Thus ending our trip.

Cross Country Trip Day 7

(I need to get moving on wrapping this up so I can move on to other things!)

Day seven we woke up in western South Dakota and headed out to see Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse.

Crazy Horse was first, as disappointing as I expected. It didn't help that it was a gray day either.




Then we headed over to Mount Rushmore but we couldn't stop. Starting several miles down the road cars were parked on the shoulders and people were walking. Apparently there was a big fireworks show that night (who would have thought on the 3RD of July!) I did snap one picture as we drove by.


Since we didn't get a chance to stop at Mount Rushmore we stopped at a cheesy drive-thru animal park, Bear Country USA (at least they had a penny smushing machine!)

And BEARS!!!


Even Babies!

Cross Country Trip Day 6

July 2nd we drove back through yellowstone to see a few more things that we had missed the day before and then headed out to see if we could make it to South Dakota that night.

In Yellowstone . . .














On our way through Wyoming . . .

Cross Country Trip Day 5

Day 5 was our first day in Yellowstone. Our plan was to drive around as much of the park as possible and stop and see whatever struck our fancy, based on name or that guidebook I bought in Portland. Whatever we didn't hit that day we would stop at on our way out of the park on the second day.






















Petrified Tree










(can you see the storm rolling in?)




now it is hard to ignore the dark skies


But it cleared up for Old Faithful.

Cross Country Trip Day 4

The fourth day of our trip, Monday June 30th saw us drive from Boise Idaho to West Yellowstone Montana.

Along the way we stopped at Shoshone Falls (and thus began Michael's obsession with seeing waterfalls on this trip.


Snake River


The falls





Me at the falls (it was unbearably hot that day)




Mike at the falls


Down-river of the falls

Cross Country Trip Day 3 Appendix

On the third day of our trip we also saw a dust devil (which was hard to take a picture of while on the phone, sorry Becky for having to set you down).



And some pretty scenery.