My Adventures Living Daily Life & Traveling the World

I woke up freezing my ass off in the middle of the night; I’d guess it was 4 A.M. It was probably 40 degrees outside and 55 in the cabin, which is way too cold for me. It was so cold that I was dreaming about hiking up a snowy mountain, NAKED, and getting sick along the way. That’s so weird. Plus, just the day before in Montana, the temperature was around 100 degrees. The disparity was huge and I wasn’t sure my body could adjust that fast. I guess we’ll see in a few hours if I get sick.

Anyway, I put a heavy blanket on top of the thin one I was using and went back to sleep. Two hours later I was awake again from the cold. But surprisingly, the crisp mountain air felt really nice. That is, until I had to get out of bed. We had been stupid and not noticed that there was a heater in the room. So I got up and got dressed in the freezing cold… discovered the heater, got mad at myself, and turned that thing on. For the next 30 minutes I sat next to the heater and enjoyed every moment of it.

The restaurant was expensive but actually quite good. We only ordered one salad and one entrée, but the total price came out to be over $25. The waitress was very nice, though, and let both my mom and I get some salad for the price of one. At 11:30 P.M. we finally finished dinner and got back to the cabin.

Speaking of the cabin, it’s probably the most overpriced and least acceptable hotel I’ve stayed at so far on this trip. The room had no TV, no telephone, no wireless internet, no coffee maker, the list goes on. These are quite basic amenities nowadays for even motels, and this place costs $100 per night per room! My phone also gets no signal here, not even roaming signal. It hasn’t gotten signal since about 3 P.M. this afternoon. My hatred for T-Mobile and my phone’s battery life just gets worse and worse everyday.

Basically all there is to do in this shitty cabin is to write in this journal and sleep! So since I’ve completed this entry, good night! I’m exhausted.

Happy August! Today was mostly a traveling day, as explained by George, the tour guide. We only had one real destination, and that was Devil’s Tower. Our other two scheduled destinations were Wal-Mart and some agriculture museum.

Yes, that’s right. I said Wal-Mart. So apparently a lot of the tourists were unhappy with the food selections and prices on the way, and they wanted to shop for food at Wal-Mart. We’re stopping there for one whole hour. I wasn’t too pleased with the food choices, either. Nothing but shitty Chinese buffets, McDonald’s, and overpriced local no name restaurants. Although honestly, this is what I would expect if I’m traveling to places I haven’t been to before. It’s much better to just experience what it’s like in each of these places than rush to the nearest place we’re comfortable with. In this case, it’s Wal-Mart.