Day 1

Today was day one on the road. We started in Antioch and drove north through Wisconsin. Somewhere between Wisconsin Dells and Minnesota I fell asleep. I work up to my mother saying, we're in Minnesota. Well it doesn't look much different from Wisconsin, which sadly doesn't look too different from Illinois. There are more hills. The trip through Minnesota wasn't very exciting. It did take a long time though. Then all of a sudden we were in South Dakota. Which we are currently still in. Right now we are in Sturgis. Well while traveling through what seemed to be the middle of nowhere, we decided to find somewhere to eat. We figured somewhere nice for our first day out on the road so we went to Ruby Tuesdays. The service was terrible. I think that the people in South Dakota are in no rush because there is nothing else to do there. Finally we got back on the road. The sunset lasted forever, ok better than an hour. It was gorgeous. We finally made it into Rapid City, SD to find that every hotel was full. Well duh, Mt. Rushmore is right there. So we drove 20 miles down there road which would be why we're in Sturgis. Tomorrow morning we will back track to go see Mt. Rushmore and Crazy Horse. Then it's an ever exciting day of driving to Missoula, MT. Hopefully the scenery will be better but we do have to drive through Wyoming first.