Outside the parks there are some winners and losers on our trip. Here they are:
Best Meal - Wyoming's Rib and Chop House. It happens to be a chain, but the food and service were the best on the trip.
Best Server - Marissa at Wyoming's Rib and Chop House. Points awarded for the ability to write your name upside down. She was attentive and efficient. Also pleasant. Her manager did a great job too.
Worst Meal - Badlands Pizza Parlor. The food was lousy. Using frozen crust doesn't work in a restaurant that brags about their pizza. The nachos were horrible. Cheese Whiz on stale chips. Bad!
Worst Server - We don't know his name. That's how infrequently we saw our waiter at Badlands Pizza Parlor.
Biggest Surprise - Town wide, superfast, wifi in Medora North Dakota thanks to the Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation. Runner up goes to the discovery that the man who made and marketed Mr. Bubble was the TRMF's largest benefactor.
Best Road Systems - Nebraska. We were only passing through but the roads were well maintained, wide and were governed with sane speed limits.
Worst Road Systems - Wyoming. Narrow back roads with unrepaired frost heaves sometimes carried a speed limit of 70. Their interstates were 80. They also display little crosses at the spot of each traffic death. There were many.
Scariest Potential Disaster - Wyoming and their hydrofracking. I just don't see how burying the toxic sludge will end well. Runner up is North Dakota.
Friendliest State - Colorado. Everyone greets you. Even strangers.
Unfriendliest (or most introverted) State - South Dakota. People were either afraid to say hello or did not want to greet strangers. Actual bumper sticker: Now you've seen our state. Go home.
Next adventure: Hawaii. Coming January 2019.
Welcome back to Albany....we've turned off the bad weather while you were gone. CB
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