MN, ND, SD, WY, MT

My first ever American road trip begins at 05:00 tomorrow morning. The map below shows the states we will be visiting. Final destination is Glacier National Park, Montana (LINK), a distance of more than 1,200 miles from our Minneapolis home. The Dunne camp is excited, having never been west of this here city. The trip will encompass so much more than our time spent in Montana. On route, we will be camping in the South Dakota Badlands (LINK) where I believe the opening sequence of Planet of the Apes was filmed, you know, the scene where Taylor stumbles out of his wrecked spaceship which has crash landed in a surreal desert/lunar type environment. Great movie.

Oh but the movie-locations-coincidentally-coinciding with our mid journey stop points don't end there. No sir. Interstate 90 sweeps into northeastern Wyoming after cutting across South Dakota leaving us close to Devils Tower National Park (LINK) where we'll pitch the old tent. Steven Spielberg made this place famous in his movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Not in my top ten films of all time but I'm sure it'll provide good meat for a story and a great photo opportunity.