To the 958 dead bugs on our windshield: We're sorry.

31.5 hours and many dead bugs later, we made it here. We arrived at about 8 in the morning, sorely disappointed that we had to drive 2 all nighters in a row. We figured by leaving on Sunday night we would just have to drive through the night once--we were terribly misled. I was more idealistic about the whole thing, thinking that we only had 3 more hours to go once we reached Bismark when really it was 6.5 (+2 hours of sleeping at a rest stop). The trip was not as fun or exciting as a big long road trip may seem, mostly because we were both exhausted, but also because we chose to drive through the horrid state of North Dakota. Horrible mistake that we will be sure to never make again. Aside from a few semi-unique rock structures we saw nothing but a few semis for more than 6 hours, and I was driving. I took the Billings, MT to Bismark, ND shift because it was all in the daylight and I thought I would give Joel a nice big rest. He didn't think I would make it the whole 300 some miles, but I proved him wrong and then stuck him with the last hours through the night in the black hole that is North Dakota (I thought we only had 3 more hours from there!).

We are now rested and showered after sleeping through most of the day. Most importantly, our teeth no longer have the giant layer of film caked on from eating too many Sweedish Fish and Sour Patch Kids. I will never learn that there is a limit to eating sugar, especially when driving for 31.5 hours. I am convinced it would be impossible to make it without sugar.