In Billings, Montana now...

I'm typing this from the KOA campground (or is that kampground?) in Billings, MT. They have a small little closet-like thing with a power plug and phone jack. I've only managed to get a 31200 connection, but I'm not complaining - it's certainly better than nothing. In fact, it's downright cool. They have some full hookup sites with phone lines. I would've loved to have gotten one of those.

Barring any unforeseen problems, tomorrow should be our last day on the road. Since I last wrote, we've been to quite a few places - Gettysburg; the Spam museum in Austin, Minnesota; the South Dakota Badlands; Wall Drug in Wall, South Dakota; and Mt. Rushmore.

This has been one incredible trip and I've got many pictures to show from it. Nicole and I are holding up pretty well, considering being stuck in a Jetta for the past 4 days. Traffic through South Dakota was great, giving me hours of 90 mile-per-hour driving. Today I managed to get the little beast up to 120mph.

The Sturgis motorcycle rally has been going on for the past week and there are motorcycles up the wazoo. We've got a group of bikers from Alberta in the next camping spot over from us. And man, have they been nice to us... not once, but twice, did they offer to take a picture of Nicole and me at the areas we've visited. Very cool. Of course, we did see one guy with a swastika tattoo and underneath that, another that said "Born to raise heil!", but overall they've been great.

Due to the great success of this trip, I foresee many future roadtrips like this. Any suggestions of routes to take? Perhaps a more southerly route, or more through the middle of the country, rather than the northerly route we took.

Anyway, time to go read up other /. journals. Happy trails!