With the bad taste of South Dakota left in my mouth we finished up our Thursday/Friday marathon drive with the great (and very empty states) Wyoming and Montana. We cleared Wyoming without seeing one cop (score!). In Wyoming we drove by Sundace (home of the Sundance film festival) and were shocked to discover that there was not much fancy hollywood stuff in the area. We stopped about 200km into Montana at Billings (again we did not see a cop on the highway). So far, both of these states are very similar - rolling hills of emptiness where cattle (who I am sure outnumber the humans) eat the short grass, blissfully unaware of their final fate. If I had to choose, I like Montana better because the hills seem to have more character (don't ask me what that means, but I have pictures of the Montana hills).
When arriving at Billings, we found a cheap hotel and went straight to a steakhouse. Ironically, the steakhouse did not serve Montana beef. Nonetheless, the meal was good.
So the final stats are 26 hours of straight driving, for close to 3000km, too many pee breaks to count.
Tomorrow, we are going to try to drive straight to Seattle. This is a 14 hour trip. After a 26 hour drive, this is peanuts (of course this is through the Rockies).
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