most important stops

Montana is too big and there appears to be no way out. we are surrounded by mountains, storms, casinos and Walmarts, yet cannot find a real ghost town. we give up.

traveling is both fun and exhausting. exhausting particularly when things on the map aren't where they say they are, or we over-extend / over-estimate ourselves (like, packing too many destinations into a single day, thus driving from 8am to 11pm). Montana is the best example of our frustration thus far. i'm willing to take up to 50% of the responsibility for this. Montana gets the other 50%.

before we began our journey we created a tentative itinerary. places we were interested in stopping / seeing, a general route, and a basic timeline. as we travel we are constantly revising - creating new plans of action, routes, destinations, etc. this is both fun and exhausting...

we're almost done seeing the areas we really wanted to hit on the first half of our trip, and we're pretty exhausted by traveling and not having a real home. it's now time to pick up the pace and get closer to seeing our friends - they are the most important stops along the trip.