On The Road Again

I'm writing to you from Mile City, MT pop. 8500! We got started on our journey west a little after 9:00 this morning and made it all the way from Minneapolis to Mile City (over 700 miles). We're caravanning with John's friend and builder Butch MacDonald. John's taking some furniture out to WY for the guest cabin, and apparently Butch likes to drive long distances while pulling a trailer full of furniture! I drove John's car most of the day while he road along with Butch in the truck. For reasons I still don't fully understand I thought it would be a good idea to speed ahead of John and Butch; and got busted by a friendly Minnesota State Trooper and hit with a $125 speeding ticket. Guilty as charged. I really don't know what I was thinking or why I was in such a rush considering the drive will take a total of about 22 hours and I hadn't even left the state of 10,000 Lakes. Well it's probably good that it happened early in the trip because I learned my lesson. So that's about the only highlight or interesting thing to happen all day. The drive is so boring! Snow is everywhere but the sunset as we drove through Bismark, ND was really beautiful. John and Butch had the energy to head into downtown Mile City in search of an authentic western bar for dinner, and I'm as happy as can be at the Mile City Best Western watching the Olympics and eating Lifesavers gummi sours. Hee-Haw

sunset photo taken in Florida 1/10