farm shows suck, and other thoughts of south dakota
zach and i drove a combined 11.5 hours today through montana, wyoming, and south dakota. nothing too ridiculous till it's bedy time.
it's 1:30 am central and we pull into mitchell, SD, a midsized city that has all your basic strip mall amenities. we assume we can walk into any hotel and get a room since it's worked out that way so far.
our streak of luck has officially ended.
apparently a really good time and place to have a huge farm symposium is right now and in this city. every room in the town is booked. except one. at the super 8 motel. so straight from a dingy room in southeast SD, i bring you the day's happenings.
i'll get to some montana stuff later, but basically, the badlands are (surprise) pretty barren. we drove 30 min out of the way to see mount rushmore, took a bunch of blurry photos from the side of the road ($8 for parking? eff that), and left thoroughly underwhelmed.
but the real highlight of the drive was eating at SONIC. if you live in michigan you are treated to sonic commercials all the time. crantastic, jalepeno strips, blah blah blah. sounds like the best place ever. except there are none around. however, south dakota has them, and boy did we treat ourselves. the slushies are as good in person as they look on tv. truth in advertising.
p.s. zach and i also split a smoothie from junga juice in idaho. it was good. i take it all back. it's the battlestar galactica version of expensive, high-calorie smoothies.
tomorrow: madison. and maybe you'll even get to see pics of the past couple days. sky's the limit.
it's 1:30 am central and we pull into mitchell, SD, a midsized city that has all your basic strip mall amenities. we assume we can walk into any hotel and get a room since it's worked out that way so far.
our streak of luck has officially ended.
apparently a really good time and place to have a huge farm symposium is right now and in this city. every room in the town is booked. except one. at the super 8 motel. so straight from a dingy room in southeast SD, i bring you the day's happenings.
i'll get to some montana stuff later, but basically, the badlands are (surprise) pretty barren. we drove 30 min out of the way to see mount rushmore, took a bunch of blurry photos from the side of the road ($8 for parking? eff that), and left thoroughly underwhelmed.
but the real highlight of the drive was eating at SONIC. if you live in michigan you are treated to sonic commercials all the time. crantastic, jalepeno strips, blah blah blah. sounds like the best place ever. except there are none around. however, south dakota has them, and boy did we treat ourselves. the slushies are as good in person as they look on tv. truth in advertising.
p.s. zach and i also split a smoothie from junga juice in idaho. it was good. i take it all back. it's the battlestar galactica version of expensive, high-calorie smoothies.
tomorrow: madison. and maybe you'll even get to see pics of the past couple days. sky's the limit.
posted by alison at 04:08
1 Comments:
I don't care what you say, or where you've been... Sonics DO NOT exist...until the day I actually go to one (30 mins form my apt in phily), they are just like the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus to me...by the way your on the west coast, why didnt you go to an In-and-Out Burger...
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