Luckily for me, the weather was awesome throughout the trip. There were a couple hours of rain/snow...but all in all...it was perfect traveling weather. Day 1 went by really quickly. I left North Easton, Massachusetts (about 30 miles south of Boston) between 4 and 5am...and arrived in Iowa around 1:30am. I traveled through a lot of tolls, and a lot of flat land. Lucky for me, the more interesting landscape was still to come.
You may think I'm over exaggerating the flatness of middle America, but believe me....it was bad. Even my GPS was bored.
Luckily, on Day 2, I had a goal: to see Mt. Rushmore. And let me tell you something...I wouldn't recommend driving out of your way to see this "national landmark". It was definitely the most anti-climactic tourist attraction ever. All the pictures I saw of it in my childhood made it look enormous....when in reality, it was wee. A little too wee to warrant pulling the car 45 minutes off the highway. Sorry, Mt. Rushmore...add a couple more presidents, and maybe I'll stop by again.
Despite the Mt. Rushmore setback, I powered through a couple more states. Wyoming was amazing, and I attribute that, in large part, to the lighting. There were amazing crepuscular rays (that's right, I broke out the nerd vocab), that were like huge spotlights. It was absolutely beautiful.
There were also a ton of animals on the side of the road, which kept me alert. I must have seen about 327 deer. It was crazy.
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