Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Too Many Orange Signs

It was a day of 940 miles in 13 and a half hours, and I must say that I really hate the sight of diamond shaped orange road signs. For those who have never done any long distance driving, that is the international signal of frustration...ROAD WORK AHEAD! The day actually was going along pretty well. We got through Montana pretty much unscathed. On our last trip through Big Sky Country, in June, that was certainly not the case. This time it was Wyoming that rose up and bit us in the rear. Between Buffalo, WY and the South Dakota line there was not one, not two, but THREE long stretches of road destruction, all of which was happily trumpeted by orange signs siting economic stimulus money at work, creating jobs. The only problem was that Traffic was restricted to one lane, for thousands of miles, and there wasn't a construction worker anywhere to be found. In spite of that, the speed limit was 3 1/2 miles per hour through these zones.

Even with the delays, we managed to make it to Rapid City, SD by 7:15pm MDT. We are housed at the EconoLodge, which is right next to the Outback Steak House. I knew that when we made the reservation, as I searched the Outback web site for locations because we had a bunch of gift cards. Boy did we score! Not only does Outback have $9.95 steak specials, but they were featuring a two for one happy hour, all evening long. SWEET! I ordered two beers...you figure out just how many I ended up with. After drive every mile of the 940 that we covered today it was very tasty.

We are now settling in for the night, and will be back on the road by 8:00am local time. No 4:00am wake up calls tomorrow. That should get us into La Crosse, WI by early evening, CDT.

See you in the morning!

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