south dakota is the worst state in america

Rochester to Mt Rushmore

So right now we are stopped at subway in South Dakota and I am contemplating suicide. South Dakota is everything I dreamed it would be, many toothless people,  13 year olds and 95 year olds driving pick up trucks and more motorcycles than cars, no one ever wearing helmets. Everyone is nice as pie though!

I have made alex and jenni listen to this song I just discovered called pretty girl rock. It says “don’t hate me cause I’m beautiful” (my philosophy on life) and I really enjoy the tune.

In Minnesota we saw more wind mills than I have ever seen in all of my life combined. It was fascinating, alex and jenni asked me how they worked cause I am a smart engineer, so I explained how wind energy is converted to electricity using a generator. Now that I’m a college graduate I can discuss things like that

this is a 95 year old lady driving a pickup truck in south dakota, you can't see her because she is so small because she is so old

we saw 2000 windmills

we left alex here to be in her natural habitat

 wyoming, there are only horses, no cars

this is a wildabeast we found in hannibals house, i thought  wildabeasts were fictional, but they're real and here is one

Update, we are only 2 license plates away from being CHAMPIONS OF THE LICENSE PLATE GAME 2012!!!! If you see Hawaii or lousiana in the near future please shoot me a text, because there’s a better chance of finding a chipotle in all of the Midwest, and I checked. There are none.

Then I checked all of the news, to see what is happening outside of south Dakota, w hich  is hard because this is such a happening place. That dude is Syria is such a prick and I hope someone abducts him and brings him to South Dakota, then he’ll really wanna bomb things.

this is south dakota and this is all that there is here

In the distance there was a ray of hope in the form of a badland. Thank the sweet god above they were there because I ready to lay down and die in the endless prairies. i'd have more luck being eaten by a cow than run over by a car because there arent any! These are things we passed in south Dakota that made me thank every god in the world that I wasn’t born in south Dakota, a palace made of corn, and the lady from little house on the praire. well, her birthplace, not actually her, i think she's dead. Holy actual smokes how could someone make a tv show from that.

Anyway, so we drove thru the badlands and took 47 pictures, all of which we tried to be artsy and emo and looking like we were contemplating serious moments. Here are some

wow...life

Then we had a debacle because of our hotel, which was the president’s inn suite resort . Google it. It is bad news. We had to switch it or face death by bed bugs, which wouldn’t be my favorite way to die. So because my faja is a traveling salesman, see death of a salesman, that is what my childhood was like, he is a platinum member at holiday inn expresses! So he got us a free one! So we switched hotels. When we got there, the lady was like “listen we’re out of queen beds, can we upgrade you?” and I was thinking in my head, “in what way would a king bed and a jazcuzzi in my room be not ok?” so we got upgraded and alex and jenni swam laps in our Jacuzzi!

our lover's suite!!!

Then we went to mt rushmore, and it was wild! We think that george washington’s ear is going to fall off, in case you were concerned about the future of our metamorphic founding fathers. then we drove around the mt rushmore parking lot looking for louisiana, we found saskatchewan.

mt rushmore!!!!

being bad in the badlands

our favorite photo of the trip

also jill, shout out to you because jenni and i have been taking vitamins every day so were as healthy as the oxen we see in south dakota!

Then we drove through the black hills of south Dakota which was pretty wild. Then we went to Wyoming which is everything you would imagine what Wyoming would look like. Do you know the level in Mario kart that is is the middle of nowhere and there is a train? That is what Wyoming looks like. We took 3 roads in Wyoming and on our first road alex said “holy shit look at this road, there is nothing there!” then she said that for the next 3 roads because there was nothing there.

this is wyoming