Continuing on

Now that we were done in both MS and TN, we were headed back to SD. As always, we wanted to take a different route than ever before. Maybe not the smartest of ideas, it was the most bored I have ever been for16 solid hours.

 I positively love reading what people think their state's slogan should be.

So bland, so vague, such lies!

 I just wanted to get a shot of my BAMF-mobile and Shawna together at last. Hey Shawna, "Where'd ya get that 4Runner?!"

 At least these guys have a safety warning and not just some marketing ploy to get you to believe their state doesn't suck.

 Think I've don't this pose before. Uh oh... going to have to find some new material.

 How about this instead? It was fairly appropriate considering I quite literally almost fell asleep at the wheel. Have you ever driven across this stretch? Good... DON'T.

 Showing me what she thinks of my decision to go on this interstate.

Now we're hitting familiar territory. (The states, not me and the pole.)

 Awwww yeeeaaahhh.

 Molly needed to get in on the picture-taking. She stares intently at my every move as if we are just going to leave her there in our caravan, on the side of the road. And every time when I get back into the car after a solid 45 seconds of snapping state sign shots, she acts as if she is so excited that I in fact didn't leave her somewhere in the middle of nowhere.

 So I am quite literally on my way to Oregon and I still don't have a place to live. We all know how well I do without control of my situation. Needless to say I was freaking out a little bit. At every opportunity (drive thru's, gas stations, hotels for the night) I was searching for a place on Craigslist. This is for real where I thought I was going to have to set up camp when I arrived.

 100 degrees and not a cloud in the sky??? I'll make my own shade, thankyouverymuch Kansas.

Now you wait just one gohl-darn minute... what in the hell is a Chinese Massage parlor duing in the (windowless) upstairs of a seedy 'Travel Center?'