Encounter of the Third Kind

[July 7, 2008]
Today we drove from Brandon, SD to Devils Tower in Wyoming. We didn’t really do much along the way. We stopped off at a wayside in SD where they had a Lewis & Clark exhibit. It was pretty cool considering that on our first date we went to an IMAX theater to see a Lewis & Clark documentary (we know we’re nerds). We skipped all the things to see in SD like Wall Drug, the Badlands, Mt. Rushmore, and Crazy Horse, because we had both seen these before a few times. We really wanted to press on and get to Devils Tower. We arrived at Kampground Of America (KOA) Devils Tower around 7:30 pm. This was the first chance to set up the teardrop on our trip. It went really well. We met a very nice couple from Appleton that had an Airstream camper (jealous!!). They were on their way back home from Yellowstone. We had a great site it was at the bottom of Devils Tower on the east side. It was amazing to be so close. The campground had a community bonfire and they showed a movie at 9:00 pm. We did watch the movie, “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” In case you have not seen this movie, SPOILER ALERT, it is about these aliens that visited the town where Richard Dryfus lives. They shined a big bright light on him (and other people) and then the people kept having visions of Devils Tower. In the end the aliens and a few select others are all at Devils Tower. This was a good movie, but terrible for Anna to watch. She hates aliens or anything like that. She made Terry go with her everywhere the rest of the night. After the movie we were pretty tired from a long day of driving, so we just went to bed. It ended up raining in the middle of the night. It was a nice rain and we didn’t get wet, a major bonus!