Day 12: Rest day

Okay, so I was feeling particularly bad today after waking up in the middle of the night with a recurrence of a sore throat and fever, so Alex and I took today as a day of rest. Fortunately, our plan included buffer days for these things, so we shouldn't really miss anything on our planned itinerary. Yay!

To make today seem more glamorous than sleeping in and lying in bed while catching up on "non-roadtrip" life (such as replying to email, letting folks know about the blog, and reading my RSS feed), here are some panoramas from a few days ago that I took while at the Badlands. Thanks, Microsoft Photosynth!

Also, Alex was concerned that without a photo of Mt Rushmore you might not believe we went there.  However, the one she found online was better tan the one on her phone, so we'll use that:

With any luck, I'll feel well enough tomorrow to tackle day 2 of our Yellowstone itinerary. If not, maybe we will post some adorable cat pictures. Okay, okay, I know what you're thinking...here's an adorable cat picture just in case you don't get one later:

As we went to dinner today, Alex got quite a shock when some deer in a guy's yard turned out not to be taxidermied at all...deer are really all over the place here.