HAVE YOU DUG WALL DRUG?

So Yellowstone is pretty awesome, but I really wish I could’ve come on a few better days. I still really enjoyed the park, (the landscape and vistas are breathtaking), but it has been raining for the past 3 days and the clouds/continuous haze have been obstructing the views and everything is just mushy. But we did get to see a whoooooole bunch of bison, elk, and deer, so that was cool. They just come up to the road, which makes it extremely tempting to touch them, but I decided my life was slightly more valuable to me than possibly getting gored to death on video. I would really love to come back sometime soon, preferably not in June when snow is still on the ground, so that I can fully appreciate the beauty Yellowstone has to offer. Oh, on a side note, if you want WiFi or even cellular service, you’d best be ready to leave the park. In regards to that, I obviously haven’t been able to update this on the daily basis I was hoping for. And my mom is probably pretty freaked out that I haven’t gotten in contact with her in a few days…I’m not too concerned because, hey, I’m still alive.

Now that we’ve been pretty much off the grid for the past couple of days, we have no idea as to what has been going on in the media other than some local weather updates. However, on the way here, Mike and I found the infamous “WALL DRUG” billboards and advertisements to be particularly entertaining.



They start advertising 400 miles in advance in each direction on I-90 and then gradually do more and more as you get closer and closer. They have the most ridiculous ads about dinosaurs, cowboys, and some just really trippy looking ones that don’t even say how far away it is. We began hypothesizing that it was some sort of crazy interpretive billboard art meant for conversation and that WALL DRUG wasn’t a convenience store at all. But we knew it had to be something because we started seeing signs saying, “WALL DRUG Only 29 Minutes Away!” and then eventually, “WALL DRUG NEXT EXIT! Don’t Miss it!” Turns out it’s just this little hole in the wall store that has some novelties and gimmicks to attract tourists. Whatever, I still liked the signs. Oh, and check out our progress:



Anyways, I’m typing this as we’re leaving Yellowstone, and all these mountainous, twisting, winding roads and the constant smell of sulfur is all starting to make me feel a little queasy, so I’m going to stop here. Until later…