The first shot of corn - and let me tell you, there is a lot of it out west

The Mitchell, SD Corn Palace - The exterior of the building changes every year and it decorated with produce

The Blues Brothers overlook the Corn Palace from the opposing street corner

This is how we recorded the entire trip in time-lapse video

Pick just about any state in the great plains, and it looks like this

 

Power towers in the middle of nowhere

Overlooking the Missouri River at a rest area

Hay Hay Hay

More hay

Apparently hay is quite popular out in these parts

Storm

The Badlands of South Dakota - a must see

Really - it's amazing

Badlands

It stretches on for miles and miles

Yo

It's pretty neat

Rock formations

It was the first national park we visited

If you ever go on a road trip, get the national parks pass

The roads wind through the rock formations

It's pretty neat

Lots of colors

A very cool drive

More colors

Road

Doesn't this look like the Windows XP background?

Late afternoon

Mount Rushmore

There it is

Different perspective

Profile of George Washington

The Black Hills of South Dakota

Mountain goats

Roadway through the mountains

Mountain-side

Crazy Horse monument

Observation deck

More hills

Roadway

You see things like this in the distance instead of mountains because of the geology of the area

I think this is Wyoming

Field

Devil's tower, Wyoming

Giant monolith

Roadway

Very flat out there

See the Rockies in the distance?

There they are

Pretty wild seeing this in the distance

Closer view

Another pull-over

The sky is big out there

A huge (3-4 inch diameter) dandelion

Rolling hills

Fence

Red roads headed towards the Big Horn mountains

I love this shot taken out the window while driving

Roadway

The other direction

The road winds in and out for several miles up the side of the mountain

Looking down into town

Nearing the top

The top of the pass (there was snow up there)

Free-range cattle

Pine tree

Cow crossing the road

Mountain lake

Beautiful

Absolutely gorgeous

Still in the Big Horns

Wouldn't you love to live here?

Roadway

Hills

Flower

You can see...quite a ways

Big Horns

Viewpoint

Looking out

Coming down the other side

Into desert

Even though it is far north, it is still a desert

Roadway in Wyoming

Desert

Rock formations (which I found out later would look really cool in the moonlight)

Cody Staudt -Cody, Wyoming

Cody at sunset

Another shot right before camping for the night

Buffalo Bill Dam Gorge

Buffalo Bill Dam near Cody