It’s only when you try to drive across this continent that you realize just how darn big it really is. And if all you are doing is watching the miles tick down on your GPS, you will truly go nuts. Or fall asleep.
(Unless you are driving in South Dakota, where the speed limit is an unbelievable 80 mph/128 kmh. It is wise to pay a little more attention to the road when traveling at that speed plus 10%…)
Lots and lots of nothing.
So it’s lots of fun to look out for the sign along the side of the highway that tells you that you are about to cross into a new state. They are quirky, colorful and tell you a little something about the place you’ll be spending the next few hours of your life in.
At the outset of our road-trip, we planned to cross into 16 states and one Canadian province (which could easily be a state as far as I am concerned…). Here are a couple of these “Welcome to…” signs we found so far, not necessarily in the order in which we passed them.
Didn’t it used to be “Yours to discover”?
And Mount Rushmore was indeed a highlight.
Maybe a little too much information to digest while speeding by at 65mph?
Simple, straightforward. Kind of like Kansans.
Everyone’s claiming rights to Lincoln now??
There’s a river and a sun in Missouri.
It says something about independence but it was the middle of the night and we were already exhausted.
Sweet. The good life.
Yes it is.
Wow… the people of Iowa welcome me personally! Imagine that!
Evelynn Starr 