I've finally made the move to Seattle, and though it was delayed two weeks as I hammered out the car situation, I'm really glad I didn't fly. I've made the trip by air almost a dozen times, but if I hurried myself out here I would have foregone so much peaceful time for thinking and the chance to see so many unfamiliar parts of America. My route across the northern U.S. just happened to be the shortest route between my points A and B, but it just as easily could have been tailored for the sites as I passed by Badlands National Park, Mount Rushmore, Devil's Tower National Monument, and all the anonymously beautiful landscapes of eastern farmland, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, and Washington.
As Ira Glass would say (I listened to a lot of This American Life along the way), today's show: a play in three acts.
Day 1: Cincinnati, OH to Mitchell, SD; 938 miles; 14 hours
Day 2: Mitchell, SD to Bozeman, MT; 788 miles; 11 hours
Day 3: Bozeman, MT to Seattle WA; 679 miles; 10 hours
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