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So most of you may know I went on a roadtrip in August, and being the procrastinator I am, I haven't uploaded any pics yet. So here it goes:
Our route was:
Oregon > Idaho > Montana > Wyoming > South Dakota > Wyoming > Montana > Idaho > Washington > Oregon (3000 miles and 10 days)
Our final destination was South Dakota to visit family there, we had planned this trip for a few months, and about a month before we were due to arrive we found out that my Grandfather was diagnosed with a very aggressive form of Prostate Cancer and the outlook wasn't good. He's not in good health to begin with, he's had many heart attacks and open heart surgery 3 times already. Surgery hasn't been an option since the diagnoses. The day before we arrive he went in for scans to see if the cancer had spread. He got the results while we were about 3 hours away. Miraculously the cancer HAD NOT spread, and being the aggressive type it is, that's great news! He's doing radiation for treatment to try and do whatever radiation does (I'm not a doctor). This is the best possible news we could have hoped for
So far it's going so good so we had an exciting trip knowing that he's gonna be around for while longer now.
I got to hang out with my cousins who I haven't seen in 3 years. They are twin 10 year olds and a 5 year old, all boys. They are pretty cool. We hung out and played games and they just think I'm the coolest cousin ever
I miss them already XD I mean I have lots of cousins, but these ones are so much younger I've watched them grow up.
We did a lot of site-seeing on the drive over and while we were there, gambled a bit, met up with more family who was in town. All in all it was a great trip
So now here are some pictures I'll try and keep them in chronological order
Day/Night 1 Oregon: We started at 8pm because my Mom and a friend flew in from Hawaii and didn't land until 7:30 and I had to work, so it was just driving and got dark pretty fast.
Night 1 Idaho: Drove straight through the state... it was dark and 80% of the time there was a lightning show to keep me alert (no pictures). The speed limit in Idaho is 80mph... that's really fast for me and I felt weird driving that fast because the max speed in Oregon is 65mph.
Night 1/Day 2 Montana: So funny story (as anyone on snapchat or facebook has already heard) I am bad at geography... We were headed for Yellowstone National Park which I thought was only in Wyoming.. well apparently there's a corner of it in Montana. The closest entrance on the GPS took s to the Montana entrance, but I didn't know that. So when we were getting ready to change states and I saw the sign for Montana I was really really confused xD but we were really only in Montana for about an hour or so.
Day 2 Wyoming/Yellowstone National Park: I haven't slept yet, I've been driving for a very long time and I'm exhausted and I dont know who's stupid idea it was to not stop for the night (I think me) but we decided to spend all day playing tourist in Yellowstone (only getting lost a few times) and then we stopped for the night in some small ass town. I was awake for 37 hours at that point so the second my head hit the pillow, I passed out.
Yellowstone Pics (I've resized these because well 10mp is huge) We couldn't have asked for a better day, it was pretty much clear skies all day and mid 70's temperature wise. It was beautiful! I hadn't been there since I was a kid, so it was like it was new to me. PS - don't ask for specific locations inside the park because I can't remember xD
Day 3 Wyoming/South Dakota: It really felt like day 2 since the first 2 days there was no sleep, not much to show picture wise, it was mostly driving.
Days 4-8 South Dakota: These are various pics from site-seeing. Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse, Bear Country, etc..
Day 9 - Wyoming/Devil's Tower
I went here as a kid and apparently all the memories I have are pretty wrong, I thought it was on a flat plain and you could walk around it.. it's fucking huge! And it's in the mountains.
And yea the last two days were just mindlessly driving home. It was long and I was fed up with being with my mother for 24/7 so I was cranky I had a great trip though, although next time if I ever do a roadtrip I need someone who can split the driving (my mom can't see well at night and neither can the friend), and we need to plan more stops because driving for so long is no fun and hard on the body.
Our route was:
Oregon > Idaho > Montana > Wyoming > South Dakota > Wyoming > Montana > Idaho > Washington > Oregon (3000 miles and 10 days)
Our final destination was South Dakota to visit family there, we had planned this trip for a few months, and about a month before we were due to arrive we found out that my Grandfather was diagnosed with a very aggressive form of Prostate Cancer and the outlook wasn't good. He's not in good health to begin with, he's had many heart attacks and open heart surgery 3 times already. Surgery hasn't been an option since the diagnoses. The day before we arrive he went in for scans to see if the cancer had spread. He got the results while we were about 3 hours away. Miraculously the cancer HAD NOT spread, and being the aggressive type it is, that's great news! He's doing radiation for treatment to try and do whatever radiation does (I'm not a doctor). This is the best possible news we could have hoped for
So far it's going so good so we had an exciting trip knowing that he's gonna be around for while longer now.I got to hang out with my cousins who I haven't seen in 3 years. They are twin 10 year olds and a 5 year old, all boys. They are pretty cool. We hung out and played games and they just think I'm the coolest cousin ever
I miss them already XD I mean I have lots of cousins, but these ones are so much younger I've watched them grow up.We did a lot of site-seeing on the drive over and while we were there, gambled a bit, met up with more family who was in town. All in all it was a great trip
So now here are some pictures
I'll try and keep them in chronological order Day/Night 1 Oregon: We started at 8pm because my Mom and a friend flew in from Hawaii and didn't land until 7:30 and I had to work, so it was just driving and got dark pretty fast.
Night 1 Idaho: Drove straight through the state... it was dark and 80% of the time there was a lightning show to keep me alert (no pictures). The speed limit in Idaho is 80mph... that's really fast for me and I felt weird driving that fast because the max speed in Oregon is 65mph.
Night 1/Day 2 Montana: So funny story (as anyone on snapchat or facebook has already heard) I am bad at geography... We were headed for Yellowstone National Park which I thought was only in Wyoming.. well apparently there's a corner of it in Montana. The closest entrance on the GPS took s to the Montana entrance, but I didn't know that. So when we were getting ready to change states and I saw the sign for Montana I was really really confused xD but we were really only in Montana for about an hour or so.
Day 2 Wyoming/Yellowstone National Park: I haven't slept yet, I've been driving for a very long time and I'm exhausted and I dont know who's stupid idea it was to not stop for the night (I think me) but we decided to spend all day playing tourist in Yellowstone (only getting lost a few times) and then we stopped for the night in some small ass town. I was awake for 37 hours at that point so the second my head hit the pillow, I passed out.
Yellowstone Pics (I've resized these because well 10mp is huge) We couldn't have asked for a better day, it was pretty much clear skies all day and mid 70's temperature wise. It was beautiful! I hadn't been there since I was a kid, so it was like it was new to me. PS - don't ask for specific locations inside the park because I can't remember xD
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Day 3 Wyoming/South Dakota: It really felt like day 2 since the first 2 days there was no sleep, not much to show picture wise, it was mostly driving.
Days 4-8 South Dakota: These are various pics from site-seeing. Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse, Bear Country, etc..
Spoiler
Day 9 - Wyoming/Devil's Tower
I went here as a kid and apparently all the memories I have are pretty wrong, I thought it was on a flat plain and you could walk around it.. it's fucking huge! And it's in the mountains.
Spoiler
And yea the last two days were just mindlessly driving home. It was long and I was fed up with being with my mother for 24/7 so I was cranky
I had a great trip though, although next time if I ever do a roadtrip I need someone who can split the driving (my mom can't see well at night and neither can the friend), and we need to plan more stops because driving for so long is no fun and hard on the body.
Those photos are amazing! Makes me want to go on a road trip