A long drive in 2008, from Seattle to Western Michigan and back. It turned out to be 7,700 miles, where we mapped out 4,400 on Google Maps. I guess Google miles are like as-the-crow-flies miles. Our crow obviously didn't fly straight.

The highlights were Yellowstone NP, especially the geothermals; the Badlands in both South & North Dakota (in ND, they're in Teddy Roosevelt NP); the Beartooth Highway in southern Montana; and a couple of farmers we met at a little lunch stand in an even smaller town somewhere in North Dakota -- who told us what they had to do to keep their cattle supplied with water in light of the drought conditions. Plenty of other stuff too, but these are what flow around on the top of my head.

I should've captured a better collection of images by getting up and out earlier in the morning and calling it quits later in the evening. Traveling from motel to motel, that's pretty hard for me, and I admire people who discipline themselves to do it right. Anyway, here are some of the things we saw.