More video fun.
We’re still catching up with last week when we went through Mount Rushmore and I pulled my trick (for the second time that day) of flirting with a Park Ranger just so that she’d talk to me on camera.
Then it was along to - and up and over - the Beartooth Pass, climbing high to get into Yellowstone Park via the east entrance.
I started my blog as a continuation of the daily write-up that I did when I got 500 people to give me 50p so that I could buy an iPod.
There's a lot of tube related stuff on this site due to me being a former World Record Holder for travelling around the entire network (275 stations) in the fastest time possible back in May 2004.
After living in London for the first 33 years of my life and working for the BBC News website I moved to Charleston, South Carolina in the USA in May 2006 for three and a half years before moving back to England and back to work for the BBC in November 2009.
So for ten weeks in June, July and August 2009, I drove 20,000 miles around the the lower 48 contiguous states of the USA visiting towns and places that shared the same name as places on The London Tube Map.
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August 6th, 2009 at 4:58 am
Fantastic scenery! Are you saying though you have to buy something to use the toilets? Does it have to be fuel or would a bar of chocolate have been sufficient. Bit like the roadside petrol stations in the UK, they often don’t have any toilets at all, or if they do won’t let you use them, say for staff only.
August 6th, 2009 at 10:46 am
US motorways/interstates DONT have ’service stations’ (well except on the I95 up near New York) really, so if you’re road-trippin’ in the USA you come off at a junction and go to the nearest gas station which all locate themselves right by the exit just for this purpose.
they always have toilets, coffee and bad hot dogs which have been on a roller stand for several weeks. you get to learn what the name of that states lottery game is called too. but mainly - you go to use the bathroom/restroom, and that’s why people stop there - it’s kinda expected.
most don’t care whether you buy anything or not, some have a sign up saying “for customers only”, but this one was REALLY snotty. she wouldn’t give Nik the key to the bathroom until she could see that i was pumping in fuel into the car. mean!
August 6th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Local customs and laws are odd: In Montreal signs in bars stated you HAD to buy food in order to drink. (A side of fries was $3.50).
In Asheville, NC, to buy a pitcher of beer, there had to be a minimum of two drinkers.
Enjoy your tour!
August 6th, 2009 at 6:50 pm
Loved the Bison, and the coffee in the duvet analogy, oh and Yellowstone is pretty spectacular!
August 6th, 2009 at 11:05 pm
Loved the scenery and also your mugshot in front of Mount Rushmore
Geoff! since u r a great fan of keeping stats of about everything u do….r u maintaining a record of all the “different” kinds of toilet facilities used?:P
oh n Nikki, nice camera work.
August 7th, 2009 at 5:16 am
I think you need to tell that Park Ranger what Theodore Roosevelt is really famous for - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_bear Something worthy of a monumnent, I think.
August 7th, 2009 at 7:09 am
a giant sculpted Teddy Bear in the side of a mountain! now THAT i would be pay to see! (unlike $10 per person for Crazy Horse…)
August 13th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
Crumpled duvet? You’ll never make a geography teacher…