Took a sponanious road trip with Flickr pal Kendra to take photos of old signs. We kept driving until we ended up in Watertown, South Dakota.
The gas station we stopped at in Watertown was also a café, a truck stop and restaurant that had a bar and casino upstairs. I figured as long as we’re at a gas station with a bar and casino we might as well do as Romans do. The bartender pressured us to get a beer but we firmly resisted. I explained how far we had to drive back home but that didn’t seem to matter much. She then insisted she give us sodas instead and we agreed. Put in $20 into a Duces Wild machine and after about ten minutes of playing ended up at $36. Cashed out and gave her a tip for the Cokes.
About 450 miles of driving in total. A great way to spend a Saturday.
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Hmmm, driving into So Dak is so much prettier when you avoid I-90. I’ll have to remember to take pictures the next time I go into Sioux Falls. There’s tons of really cool old signs there and weird little shitty bars on the north side.
I love that sunsets last forever in SD, but I have to make sure that most of my drive west isn’t during the middle of it since you can’t block the sun with your visor.
Posted 29 Jul 2007 at 13:32 ¶Awesome idea. Old sign phototrip has one of my dream roadtrips for a while… still haven’t done it yet.
Posted 29 Jul 2007 at 17:39 ¶Even though I wasn’t terribly successful finding the signs I wanted, we still had a fun time. We toyed with taking a different route back to get some signs all lit up but we left Watertown around 10:30pm so we drove back nonstop. The disadvantage of being spontanious, I guess.
Posted 29 Jul 2007 at 17:46 ¶I had to go private with the blog, if you still want to read, please send me an e-mail at soup28@hotmail.com.
Posted 30 Jul 2007 at 18:18 ¶Wow, that’s pretty cool. I definitely need to go on random road trips. Too bad I can never convince anyone to go with me (because I clearly have lazy friends).
Posted 31 Jul 2007 at 12:18 ¶I had no idea you posted about this. I still owe you lunch.
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