Day 6

Day 6

We packed up camp this morning and headed to Wall Drug (think South of the Border style place) for breakfast. We filled up on homemade donuts and 5 cent coffee. As we traveled on I-90 West we decided to take a detour to see Mount Rushmore. We didn't go all the way to the park, but snapped some photos at a pull-off before heading back to the highway. It was smaller than we thought, but we were still impressed by it. Then we were on our way to Yellowstone National Park.

We decided to head towards the northeast entrance to the park which took us on Rt 212 through Custer National Forest. Little did we know this would be the scariest road either of us had ever driven on. We climbed switch back after switch back to over 9,000 ft of elevation through Bear Tooth Pass. At one point the snow-pack was much higher than our car and on the way it began to flurry. At one point Lauren began to worry and discuss a plan B, but David stayed positive and said we would get there, and we did.

We arrived in Yellowstone later than we had hoped so we made our way straight to our cabin at Roosevelt. We didn't stop, but saw many Bison in the valley as we made our way through.

We got settled in our little cabin after taking showers :) and started a fire for the night.