After alot of arguments about how to load the truck that finally culminated in us paying some excellent dudes to help us load the truck, we left sandpoint at about 1:30 and ate lunch in CDA at WENDY'S!!!!! I'm not being sarcastic with the exclamation points--there is no Wendy's in Sandpoint. After a couple more stops in CDA, we realized it was snowing and that we should probably get on the road quickly, regardless of how cool I could make an argument for fruit leather and granola being.
Montana was a blast! Driving down curvy mountain passes with ice on them in the dark while it's snowing is my FAVORITE fucking thing to do! We stopped in missoula, and, despite my misgivings about eating chinese food anywhere in the general northwestern area of the united states, had some excellent chinese food. I got a chicken and eggplant dish that was absolutely to die for.
We rose at 6 am, ate some breakfast in the hotel lobby and were on the road by 7. The landscape in montana and wyoming was absolutely beautiful. Lots of mountains and incrdibly blue skies with a few pretty little clouds. The new DS games were great too. We picked up The big brain academy, which mostly makes me feel stupid, and Advance Wars: Dual strike, which is awsome but has some of the cheesiest dialogue I've ever seen.
We stopped in Casper, Wyoming, which is an oddly cool city with a downtown, a lot of good restaurants and even a gelatto joint in the middle of fucking nowhere. for hundreds of miles around casper, there were all of a handful of towns of less than 1000 people, and then BAM!, a great, well developed, culturally diverse city. We ate at and Old Chicago pizzeria, which was absolutely incredible. It is a chain, but it doesn't look feel or act like a chain--they have incredible pizza crust, a list of about 6 juices they serve, restuarant standards, and specialty sodas, like henry weinhard's. If you ever get a chance to go to a Chicago pizza and pasta, do it. You won't regret it.
The next day involved some neat landscape in the way of mesas. We got Loco Roco working on the PSP and it is quite possibly the silliest game ever--but it's incredibly fun and addictive. We stopped in york, nebraska and ate at an applebee's.
The next day involved a lot of boring landscape and having to go a couple extra exits because the first hotel we wanted to stay at looked like it was in the middle of a ghetto. Our stop was in florisette, Misourri, which is essentially a highway exit between columbia and St. Louis. There was pretty much, the hotel, a gas station, and a pizza/pasta resturant that would do carry out. Tiny town; good fucking pizza.
The next day, got to see the arches in st louis and all the dirty fucking run down buildings. There was alot more boring ladnscape, then some nice fall colored trees and then we were home! We got here at about 3:30 on monday and ordered chinese take out.
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