These things I noticed

Now when you drive for 3600 miles in a matter of simply six days, it does not take a person with astute powers of observation to notice a few peculiar items.  I tried to remember a few of these and compile them into a nice list for all to enjoy.  So these are the things I noticed while driving from Missouri to Montana and back, once in the middle of the night, the other time in a two day stretch.

• people stop waving to you east of South Dakota
• there is the same amount of traffic in South Dakota at rush as there is at 3 am
• the midwest has rest stops with wireless internet, South Dakota has rest stops with giant teepees
• there is a word in the English language with two double a’s: its somewhere in eastern Montana
• people really will speed up when you try to pass them as proved by two minnusoetuns and a nort dakoetun
• some gas pumps are really slow
• the average distance between green signs letting you know how far to the next city is 8 miles
• those same green signs are also unreliable, or I was driving backwards at one point on my trip
• you could take a picture of the road in South Dakota with barren wasteland on either side and if you stared at it for five hours you could receive an honorary award for having driven across SD
• even when telling a joke to yourself, its all in the delivery
• everything has to be transported somehow as proved by the strange loads on some semis
• i would love to know the number of semis on the road in the US at any given time
• it really is darkest before the dawn
• QT stands for Quick n Tasty
• you can put too many sunflower seeds in your mouth at one time
• you can drive for 1/2 hour in SD without passing or being passed by anyone
• states such as Montana and Wyoming should be commended for not being littered with Adult video billboards
• you can’t judge a store by its billboards, everyone who has stopped in Wall knows this
• just because you came up with a pun does not mean its clever evidenced by Mitchell’s corn palace which really isn’t all that A-MAIZ-ING
• De Smet home of Laura Ingalls Wilder is 400 miles from lake De Smet: kind of weird
• it is possible to drive the exact same speed as someone, but only once you are within 50 ft of them
• you really could make fun of the name of about every city, but after a while it gets old
• the unintentional pun of the street name Parrallel Parkway is clever
• Some people have too much time on their hands proven by some of the atrocious structures in SD
• old people get a a bad rap for not being good drivers… and for good reason
• while there are Lewis and Clark signs all across the nation they are not all the same; sometimes they are pointing right and sometimes they are pointing left
• it is absolutely necessary to have a trusty co-pilot who can help keep you awake with incredibly loud snoring
• odds- north and south; evens- east and west
• if you own a roofing business and your last name is Fiedler be sure and name your business Fiedler on the roof
• mile/exit 1 is never at the beginning of anything… it is actually normally right in the middle
• to get from Missouri to Montana you drive north and then turn left and it is awfully anticlimactic when you find out that the left turn isn’t actually a left but rather a big right
• the term mountain is relative
• when the word “England” is written on a semi truck it is a brand name not where the truck originally started