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Casper, Wyoming

	Following a 5 hour drive through Eastern, Wyoming, we decided to find a place to shack up for the night.  Casper, Wyoming looked as good as any other town.  Before looking for a place, however, we needed some refreshments, so we pulled into the Hardee’s Drive through (in the mid-west, Carl’s Junior is called Hardees or vice versa for you mid-westerners).   Several deer (a male and two females) had beaten us to it though and we had to wait for them to clear out of the drive through before we could order our food (we think this would be a great advertising campaign for Hardees).  

After we had eaten, we started the task of searching for a campground, but they were all full, so we decided to spring for the first hotel of the trip.  As luck would have it, all of the hotels we stopped at had no vacancy.  We quickly learned the reason for this – the 64th annual Sturgis, Wyoming biker rally, which explained the tons of motorcyclists we had seen throughout Glacier, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton National Parks.  While awesome that we were a part of this annual event, it meant that all the hotel rooms and campgrounds for at least 200 hundred miles or more would be booked.   

Thankfully, at the next hotel, while waiting in line to inquire about vacancy, Mike overhead the clerk giving directions to another couple for the Royal Hotel, where they apparently had several rooms available.  Both us and the other couple were lucky enough to get probably the last two rooms left for miles around.  Although it was not luxury accommodations, it was a nice clean room, with a comfy bed and Tony the hotel operator.  Tony was quite a character.  To give you a little taste of what he was like, he was Pakistani, had a thick Southern accent, punctuated each sentence with a “Yes Saaawww,” and he drove a big yellow Chevy pick up truck, with a license plate that read “Tony 1.”  And, he gave us a great route to take to Mt. Rushmore (through the Black Hills and Custer State Park, or rather “Custaah State Pawwk . . . yes Saww”), suggested a few additional stops along the way, and even recommended that we use the public library for free internet access, which we did the next morning (too bad we did not think to do this when we were in Seattle, where we racked up some serious internet charges).  All in all, it was a very pleasant stay.
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