So, when you wake up from a night at a hotel, what is the first thing you want to do? Shower right? Will a cold shower do? What is a shower worth to you? For me, it is the reason I stay in a hotel and I am not camping. I figure if I am paying 100+ per night then I am entitled to a hot shower. So, Tim takes a shower and it is TEPID, by the time I get one there is just COLD water. This is a convention center sized hotel...If I wake up and shower at 8am, should I just expect that the water is cold? Spearfish Holiday Inn believes that the shower was worth 15.00 which is what they credited us for our trouble. Is this acceptable? Well, we had spent 2 nights on the way to Iowa and two nights on the way back so far all in either Holiday Inn or Holiday Inn Express hotels...there was a man in front of us in line to sit down for breakfast....he got mad because it took them 5 minutes to tell him they would be right with him...and I will bet he didn't get a hot shower either. So...something to think about when you are traveling. I am not one to complain...but if you are paying 100+ per night...I feel that it is a GIVEN you are getting a hot shower in the AM, and that is just the way I feel. Now, all of our other stays were great...but let's just say that when we made a decision about where to stay for our last night...it wasn't a Holiday Inn...we chose Best Western in Butte, MT, and it was HUGE, had convention rooms and I got a hot bath that night AND a hot shower the next morning...the place was nearly sold out...and I STILL got a hot shower...something to consider on your next trip.
Anyway, back to the return trip....We got up and headed out to Devil's Tower WY, it was a pretty drive and Devil's Tower was amazing. Saw prairie dogs and lots of people, it was HOT, so there wasn't a lot of hiking, and I felt a little clammy, could have been the sponge bath I had that morning. Anyway Tim started looking at the map and thought maybe we could take a scenic detour on the way home...seeing those mountains to the south of us made us want to go up in them...so we decided to take a small detour...up into the mountains...in true Tim form, we underestimated the time....but we got to go 9370 ft, saw snow, saw a moose and her calf, had to come down the side of the mountain in low gear....10% plus grade hills and once on the bottom, the storm of the century was brewing and lightening and wind and rain were going like mad around us. We managed to avoid a large blue infatable pool blowing right at us, I managed to keep us on the road...and it was INCREDIBLE. Tim tried to get a picture of the LARGE bolts of lightening coming down...and after 20 shots, got one!! It was GREAT!! Well, this small detour was more than a couple hours and got us to Butte, MT just outrunning another storm close to 10pm...we picniced on the mountain, so we ate at Perkins once we arrived. It was good. And, we slept well.
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