Baltimore to Seattle: Day 8

Thursday morning and I met early as I was way too excited to sleep! I jumped on Mama Cloudy a few times to wake her up so we could head over to Mount Rushmore. Fort, however, was much slower to get her head off the pillow. She'd been up pretty late the night before uploading pictures to flickr so I could post blogs. I ran out the door to take a look at our view in the day light. It was breath taking!After we finished munching on some dounuts and juice, we headed up to the monument for a better look. Absolutely beautiful! I can't really describe it properly so here are some photos:

After we saw all of the amazing, amazing sights we headed on to Wyoming to go find a place to stay for the night around Yellowstone, but the closest town had some sort of event going on and the majority of the rooms were booked. So we agreed to skip it on this bout and catch it the next time round. We drove through right as the sun was setting which allowed for some beautiful scenery. But we quickly found that the hi-beams on the Cloudy mobile were adjusted too low and made it very difficult to see very far in front of us. It became pitch black very quickly and it was extremely hard to see what was going on around the car. There were a couple of occasions were I was able to see to off to the side of the road, but there wasn’t anything there.. just a cliff. Fort drove us through the park and I noticed that she remained hunched close to the steering wheel straining to see the entire way through. About 2 hours after our entry we found the end of the park and our entrance into Montana. We drove as far as the rain permitted us but finally stopped due to weariness and the inability to see the road any more. It was a good day and we made great time. I think Fort is hoping that we only have one more day to go, but Mama Cloudy is saying that its probably a 2 day trip… we’ll see.