Fourth day in the road trip and arrival at destination

We drove many, many miles and after we crossed the Mountain /Central time-zone line (that was exciting) we decided to spend the night in Murdo; Murdo is a town of 500 people, the smallest community I have ever stayed in over night. We choose to splurge for ourselves and stay at a Best Western! In fact we stayed there because it was nice and cheap.


Mark went to book the room and I asked him to ask for a "quiet room" as far as possible from the street. Mark came back to the car laughing because the front desk clerk said no problem, we can certainly have the desired room, however there is no traffic in Murdo. How silly I could possiblly be, traffic in Murdo??? 500 people and the only grocery store in town closes at 7pm!

Speaking about the grocery store - Mark and I rushed to the grocery store to buy some food and maybe a bottle of wine. The grocery store was extremely poor, very few choices, and almost no wine or beer. We decided not to buy anything and splurge again by going out to one of the 3 restaurants in town. The restaurant is old, typical small town restaurant as you see in the movies (but I have never seen before, therefore this was interesting for me), with the bar on one side and restaurant with few tables and benches on the other side. Dinner was just OK, which is OK.

We woke up in the "exciting" town of Murdo, had a bit of the "free" continental breakfast at the hotel and went back on the road; we were thinking that most likely we will make it from Murdo, South Dakota to La Crosse, Wisconsin in that day. We drove leisurely enjoying the scenery and chatting away about our places, things left behind, friends, future travel and future in general. As traffic was still very light, roads in very good conditions, sunny weather, we made it to La Crosse faster than expected; then we decided to make it all the way to Jefferson--our final destination.


We got to Mark's parents a day earlier than everyone had predicted, big surprise for the parents. We had a great evening sharing travel stories over 2 delicious pizzas (Mark's parents just got back from Peru and Ecuador.)

In 4 days we drove from Vancouver BC to Seattle Washington and to our destination, Jefferson Wisconsin; this is the end of our road trip on highway I-90 connecting Seattle to Chicago. We crossed 7 states: Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin.