So how did you like all the billboards? Where are you at now? Did you see Mt Rushmore?
Sorry, just now seeing this, Mtn. I've been in western WA since Monday.
🙂 Next stop after Wall was Missoula (about 11 hours) and then here (about 8.5 hours from Missoula). The drive from Rapid City until Spokane was awesome (except for Billings and Butte...ick). After Spokane, WA gets really ugly until you reach the foothills of the Cascades. Snoqualmie Pass was so incredibly beautiful.
I started seeing signs for Wall Drug in MN, 355 miles from the dang store! Haha. Man, South Dakota has a TON of billboards. They even had a sign for some auto shop, boasting "24 hour
toe service." I wonder what they do with toes???
😱 
Oh, and my odometer rolled through 77,777 miles near Mitchell, SD, and I took a picture. Heh.
And no, we didn't have time to do the Rushmore thing, since we were travellin' with 4 animals, but we did take the Rt. 240 loop detour through the Badlands. I've heard Rushmore's the place to be during 4th of July, so maybe next year or the year after that.
I love my new apartment, though, and for the first 4 days here, we had nothing but sun, so I had a clear view of the Olympic Mountains from my living room and bedroom.
🙂 Can't see 'em today, though, since it's cloudy.