Roadtripping... Day Four Begins

Summary of the last 3 days.

Corn in the rain. 

Corn at noon. 

Corn at dusk. 

Des Moines was an absolute pit. We stayed at a motel that was infested with tweakers and people looking for a fight. Yes. Let's park our fancy car, filled with all of our favorite possessions, outside drugland, USA. I'm sure the rest of the city is lovely. But we found just such a ripe nugget of crap when it came to our motel, I can say I'm not really tempted to ever go back.

Wyoming... of course... Fast, fast, fast. I booked online for a hotel. The reservation didn't go through. Then we couldn't get a room. Sturgis (a biker convention). We could have been staying with the Hell's Angels! WHAT!? I was really upset about losing the reservation... I made another one. We drove another 2 hours to the next hotel. Walked up the to front desk and they didn't have our reservation either. In my haste, I didn't double check the days and made it for the wrong month. Again, they were booked with bikers. So were the surrounding hotels. I wound up paying full price (yuck) for a "historic" hotel in downtown Cheyenne. Let me just tell you...

Historic means...

• We haven't updated the plumbing in 100 years. You will be standing shin deep in your shower water.
• It's been just as long since we washed the shower curtain, replaced the window AC or shampoo'd the carpets. 
• No pool. 
• No wifi. 
• No breakfast. 
• Really fancy lobby. 

Fancy out of focus lobby. 

But they had really nice shampoo. It was just the cherry on top of a really long day of driving and finding that we didn't have accommodations and it took until 11 to even settle in... yuck.

Finally we go to better scenery though!

Big Sky! Mountains! CLOUDS! 

Yesterday we landed in Preston. We visited my parents briefly then pushed on to Lava Hot Springs. Because that's exactly what you need after 4 days of 8-10 hour driving days - a good soak in the hot springs. We met up with Trent and had a really lovely night. Soaked. Drove to Denny's (it was the only thing open). Came home. Soaked again (Jetted tub!) and tucked in for the best sleep I've had in 2 days.

Today we are pressing forward... 4.5 hour drive. Stop in Boise out near the airport. Then power on to Portland the next day with another 6.5 hour day.

Roadwarrior out!
N.