We started this roadtrip in Dec of last year so, for the most part, we've been traveling in the off-season and we haven't had to book ahead for either hotels or attractions (DH might argue that many of the things I want to see are always off-season since no one else wants to see them). It has been a great run of seat-of-the-pants travel up until now but all good things come to an end and, tragically, we are going to have to blow by one of my must-dos. The...

I thought it was pretty cool that Buffalo Bill Cody had an entire town named for him, and Wild Bill Hickok had the card hand he died with memorialized, but DH was thinking bigger than that. Having your big head carved into a mountain was a much more unique and better way to be remembered in her view. Mount Rushmore might be the only place in the world where this has actually happened (on purpose). After putting up with me (at very close quarters) on this non-stop...

As we were leaving Wyoming a short side trip took us to the Devils Tower and it's not a bad name given that one of the theories around its formation is that it is a volcanic plug or that it is the neck of an extinct volcano. It must have something to do with the Devil because we saw a number of Hells Angels types cruising around. Apparently the tower is part of a motorcycle circuit that originates in nearby Sturgis, South Dakota, and bikers are drawn to the a...