leaving the plains for the mountains.

From Stratford, TX, we headed to Ulysses, Kansas, where we got to see and snuggle this sweet baby:

Ms. Jessa Marie

Thanks, Rachel, for letting us stop by and shower and meet your sweet kids, and share our crock pot chicken and rice!

We picked up a load of pipe the next morning, while I was still sleeping ;)

Off to Montana!

Nothing exciting happened on the drive, except for the awesome scenery, which I got plenty of pictures of.

We were in Kansas and the eastern edge of Colorado some, but it was flat fields, which aren't too interesting and don't photograph well from the truck, so I pretty much ignored those states. Except this one gas station right inside of Colorado we stopped at that had an authentic Mexican restaurant next door and we went over and got tamales and they were GOOD. And gone before I even thought to take a picture of them. Too yummy to stop long enough for that!

Oh yeah, on some road somewhere between the Mexican restaurant and South Dakota we got runned off the road by a wide load.

Almost went over the bank, cus as you can see, there was not a lot of shoulder to get a semi on. this dude was hanging off the other side of his truck just as much as he was on this side, and he was scraping the bank getting past us.

Not too long after that, we stopped at another gas station and I didn't get a picture of it, but there was a semi there pulling a huge trailer that was probably as long as 3 semis and their trailers combined. There was an unidentifiable metal contraption sitting up on the middle of it. Pretty sure that truck was only meant to go in a straight line, cus there's no way it goes around curves and into parking lots.

Anyways, here's the pictures, all in South Dakota.

Looks like a fire happened here:

The Black Hills!

WE SAW BUFFALO!

-obviously this was an exciting thing to me-

-we also saw antelope, but I wasn't quick enough to get a picture-

Our shadow..haha!

Black Hills sunset

We made it to Montana a few hours later, but obviously it had gotten dark and that doesn't make for good pictures. I think we parked in a random lot somewhere, but I can't be for sure, because I was asleep when we got there and I was asleep until we had already unloaded the pipe.

But then Jesse woke me up, cus the scenery was cool and he had orders to do so, but I think I'll save that for another post!

*I'm trying to keep my blog up to date, but as you can see I am a few days, ok a week, behind. I promise I will try to catch up so you can keep a little more current!

*also-I do the best I can on pictures, but just remember that I am taking pretty much all of them from the window of a moving truck, and they aren't always that great, but I certainly can't convince Jesse to turn around and let me try again, so sometimes not-so-great pictures are all I can get.