Welcome to the West Coast

We made it. Finally. We made a stop in Portland, Oregon and then continued down the coast. We are currently in California, about 2 hours away from San Francisco. On our way down through California we drove through the Redwoods : )









-Two Biddies

Montana, Where We Became Old Ladies.

Now, I'm not saying that being an old lady is a bad thing, I mean they get to do cool things: dye their hair that funky bluish color, get discounts wherever they damn well please, have people carry their groceries, and most importantly TOUR MANSIONS AT 2 O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON! WOO!

Our purpose for going to Montana (other than all the amazing and enlightening billboards, my personal favorite: "Today is a good day to keep all of your fingers", a great reminder to all of the people working in Montana) was to visit Glacier National Park. Unfortunately when we arrived at the park, the road and view to the glacier was blocked. Since we had some time to kill we decided to visit The Conrad Mansion in Kalispell.



This place was pretty wild for being built in 1895. Built in water coolers, call bells, elevators, and even good ol' FDR stayed here.





Just relaxin'.

Although it wasn't what we planned to do, we did have a good time.

Oh, and we found a store that was covered wall-to-wall in cowboy boots. God Bless the West.



-Two Biddies

Taurus Update: Linda's Soul Sistas

For any of you who actually know Amie, you obviously know about her beautiful ride, AKA Linda. We've been keeping tabs on how many Taurus' we've seen on the road since Maine (Soul Sistas).

So far the count is:

52 Old School
1 Transformed Gracefully into a Cop Car
1 New Model Taurus (who would actually choose this as a brand new vehicle?)

-Two Biddies

Wyoming: Land of Cowboys, Bears, and Bugling Elk

This is by far the most amazing shot from Yellowstone, if you only have time to look at one thing, look above, please. Look at how amazingly well the creator of this warning did: The little guy thinking he's pulling a fast one by sneaking off the path, the girl acting shocked, and my favorite part, the adult blatantly walking away (they caught me in etch drawing).


Wyoming seemed to take forever to get through, but it was well worth it when we arrived to Yellowstone National Park. It was by far one of the most beautiful places around, and it was also a pro that we were not ripped apart by a grizzly bear.





This big fella was our greeting to the park, he was just walking down the road when we pulled in.





The "Grand Canyon" of Yellowstone.








One of our favorite things that we did in Yellowstone was the walk through West Thumb on Lake Yellowstone. There were a ton of geysers. This geyser was known for visitors catching fish and then cooking them without taking them off the line...how ingenious.









It's mating season for elk, not only did we hear them bugling at night to impress the ladies, but we saw these two doing a little dance in the middle of one of the villages in the Park. The one on the left was dueling for the five or six lady elk that we was chilling with, what a stud.






Fittingly, on our way out of the park, we were again greeted by bison, lots and lots of bison.










See you on the West Coast.


-Two Biddies

Mount Rushmore or Bust...Total Bust

After gathering up our belongings from the Badlands and checking into a hotel, we awoke the next morning to go and see the handsome mugs of our Prez's at Mount Rushmore. Mother Nature had opposing thoughts; it was freezing and rainy outside...boo.



How beautiful is that fog?!



This is the closest we came to scoping out the men in the mountain - on a gosh darn soda machine outside of the bathroom.



Almost made us donate, but then we remembered that we didn't actually see Mount Rushmore; we aren't suckers.

Hopefully one day we make it back to see the American beauty.

-Two Biddies

Badlands, SD: Beward of Bison, Rattlesnakes, & Wild Winds

Our plan was to camp out in Badlands National Park, but we decided that we would rather have a tent in the morning and pay up for a hotel. The winds were wicked, so we packed up and drove towards our next stop, Mount Rushmore.





Other than not being able to camp in the park, The Badlands were insane, the pictures do not do it justice. At all. Driving from Minnesota to the park, all there was were billboards for the largest pharmacy on planet earth (Wall Drug) and this:





And then BAM:







They didn't charge at us, but we saw one of our friends take a poo.


Overall, great day.




-Two Biddies

A Note to the Parental Units, AKA GG and Wild Bill

1. We are safe: there are no other campers around us, literally.



2. Just for you Wild "Dad" Bill: we can handle the rain, and we know you wanted everyone to laugh/see our tarp. Thanks for the wise choice in color, it screams "Biddy Alert!".



We love ya.

-Two Daughters

Ohio, Illinois, and the Oh-So-Busy Minnesota.

It's the end of day four, but we haven't updated ya'll (I guess I should be saving that for when we get to the dirty south) on the "exciting" adventures we've had in Ohio, Illinois, and Minnesota.

Our campsite was deserted, like all of our campsites so far, when we got to Ohio, so we decided to go to Lake Erie.

I discovered the Lake,



and Amie discovered the beautiful and rare smokestack.



After our amazing discoveries, and a nights sleep by a train track, we peaced out of Ohio, and headed to Chicago, but our next campsite was 2 hours out of the city, so we didn't make it to deep dish pizza or Oprah, it was a sad day for The Biddies. Although, we were directed by our lovely campsite director (see photo below) that the next town over, Woodstock, was were Dick Tracy and Groundhog Day were shot; we were starstruck...by our campsite director, not the films.



This morning we made the trek to Minnesota, the land of 10,000 lakes, but alas all we have seen are cornfields, where Rachel allowed Amie to listen to country music because it only seemed natural.



We have also seen a hawk eating it's prey and lots of wind-farms, thumbs up Minnesota.

See you all soon.

-Two Biddies

Day Two: Still Ridin' Dirty

So, we made it to day two, without injury or getting lost. Other than a quick stomach bug which led me to talking to the bushes for a hot minute, New York treated us right. As of 5:30 on Tuesday afternoon we are in Ohio, have traveled about 800 miles, and have gone through six states.



This morning we went to Niagara Falls, which apparently is supposed to be romantic, but all we really got out of it were some sweet blue ponchos and the fun fact that a little boy named Roger survived going over the falls in only a bathing suit and a life vest - who knew!



Tonight we're staying in Ohio, and then we are off to Chicago to find Oprah, wish us luck!

-Two Biddies

PACKED! And Ready to Hit the Road

WE LEAVE TOMORROW MORNING!

The time has come my friends, we are ready to hit the road to funky town. The rest of our planning went well with no problems, and we added Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico to our stops, which looks outrageous.

As a whole, we aren't nervous, but I did have a nightmare the other day: Bears. Bears coming into our tent and going wild with our meaty bodies. I told my sister about this nightmare, and all she had to say was "Oh my god, bears attacked our car in Vermont when we were camping looking for the food". Thanks Phillis, you're really reassuring.

We do have an intimidation station in the back of our car, a baseball bat, pepper spray, and a field hockey stick. But I doubt people will be trying to attack us once they see our greasy hair, that itself is a weapon.



So Rae, Amie, and Sylvia (that's our sick whip), are ready to hit the dusty trail. First stop Niagara Falls.

-Two Biddies

Planning: Not our Strong Point, but Let's Roll

So, just because we think that maybe our parents, and maybe some of our friends might want to know where, what, and how we are doing on our trip across the good ol' U-S-of-A, Amie and I (Rachel) have decided to jot down our adventures.



First things first: planning, which equals lots of highlighting and lots of sticky notes. Lame. This is not our calling, we are getting distracted by Kate Plus 8 on TV, and the indoor water parks on the maps.

Our basic plan is to start with Niagara Falls, then head through the midwest to Wyoming and Montana, hit Seattle, run down the west coast, strike it big in Vegas, not fall into the Grand Canyon, haul ass through Texas, groove in the Big Easy, hopefully hit up Hotlanta, most importantly go to Graceland and then migrate up the east coast. Don't worry, we will be carrying hairspray and a crow bar.

We've planned up until Montana, couldn't find a road on our handy atlas, so we called it a night.

BUT

Stay tuned if you are remotely interested in our travels.

-Two Biddies