Crossing the South Dakota/Wyoming border... I think.

Words of Wisdom: do not take a dirt road in Amurica.  When there is a "dirt road" on the map, it is not what you think.  You'd think a dirt road would still be, uhhh how do I say it, driveable?  Not a path through a farmers field?  Think again.

So our last stop of Day 4 was supposed to be along a scenic byway at various waterfalls.  All is good and we find the turn off for the first falls, and somehow drove by it and didn't realize until we were about 10 minutes down this one-lane dirt road.  By this point, we were exhausted, my camera was dead, and we were almost out of gas so we decided to just continue to our hotel.  Which the GPS and map showed we could get to by continuing along this road.  Well, let me tell you, it was honestly a dirt path with cows on it running from South Dakota to Wyoming.  At some point on this journey, we crossed the border without knowing it.  We had one "tick" of gas left, and we hadn't seen a barn or "house" for miles.  I honestly felt like we were going to die out there in the bush.  There were massive rocks and holes on this path, and we bottomed out more than once.  A cow also almost rammed into the side of Gary.  This tour continued for at least two hours, and once we got out to civilization, I was actually surprised we survived.  On the plus side, we were so far out in the middle of nowhere, we saw 25 deer!  They were just everywhere.  All this, and we didn't even get to see the waterfall.  Fail.

These pictures are from my phone, because of the dead camera.  This needed to be documented, and these photos don't even do the situation justice.

"Civilization" ... there was pavement ahead!!!