Leaving Salt Lake, arriving in North Dakota

There is something rather stasifying and liberating at the same time about driving to the grocery store at 9:00 in the morning (still in SLC) to do some last minute grocery shopping for the road, and noticing, that almost everyone who is awake and driving around you, is up and heading for work. I had a pretty intense realization at that point, that I was really, truly about to embark on a three month adventure, not having a steady home or a steady income, to travel the country doing poetry.

We left SLC at about 11 am, Monday, September 7th. Shot straight up through Idaho into Montana. Our original plan was to camp out in Yellow Stone National Park, but when we got there they wanted 25$ just to drive through it, so obviously, we decided otherwise. We drove around the park, while still heading east, and found another camp sight, but they wanted 30$, so once again, obviously, we decided otherwise. We headed further North East, into a beautiful mountain range, where we found a camp site for like ten bucks. It was a good site, we made a fire and ate mexican beans and rice, I (Cody) being the genious that I am HAHA slept in the van instead of in the tent, and, to no suprise, was regaled with horror stories of how horribly cold it was.

The next morning, we didnt even bother making breakfast because of the temperature, and headed straight for North Dakota, it took us about eight or so hours, we pulled into Minot last night, and now I am here, still too early to be awake but children and loud dogs dont really help someone trying to get a beauty sleep haha. Anyways, more posts coming soon...