From Rapid City, South Dakota to Butte, Montana

On the road again.....and no planned sights to see, but there were some sights that we couldn't avoid seeing.

Just a short distance outside of Rapid City, near Spearfish,  we were one of the first to come upon a truck on fire on the freeway. We gawked until the fire fighters arrived and then gawked some more as they emptied one foam filled truck and then another onto the fire. No one was injured, and fortunately, there was a nearby exit that kept the traffic moving.

Then, in mid-Montana we passed a man running along pushing a 3-wheeled baby jogger. He had a bright yellow 'coast-to-coast' sign on the stroller, and I was able to find his blog tonight, (thank you Google). Evidently, he started in Westport, Washington and is running to Georgia doing about a marathon worth of miles every day. He's Swedish and has done the run once before from the east coast to the west. He carries all of his supplies in the stroller.Wow!

We also passed a prairie dog town with a big sign reading "no shooting/prairie dog study area". The little guys must believe in "don't fence me in", because their burrows were both inside the study area and out.

I've been living with a no shopping rule for the entire trip, (there really is no extra space in the boxster). Today I snapped. We stopped at an intriguing second hand store in a teeny Montana town and found the most wonderful old galvanized steel watering cans; so I bought three. :) One fit in the trunk, one beneath my feet, and one in my lap. Just a few hundred miles to go...

Giving symmetry to our trip, here we are in Butte, with Tom Mulcahy. Dinner at the Uptown Cafe, across the street from the historic Finlen Hotel. Great stories, great fun.

Running Odometer: 9819
States: South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana  Total:  28
Countries:  2