We didn’t quite make Butte Montana as planned and stopped at Missoula instead for the night. Heavy traffic and road constructions in Washington.
Sort of worked out, as had we stayed in Butte we would have bolted for the freeway first thing. Drove a couple hours and reach Butte, did some touristy thing
Sorry for the sinewy pic, on iPad. (fixed ! )
Turns out the car is more of an attraction than the pit itself, which was already impressive, after they stopped mining in the pit 40 yrs ago, it got filled up with ground water, and the depth of water is over 1000 ft!
just as we left a tour bus arrived and all the people cared about was who is drive the 2mil Porsche. I had to answer questions from about 15 people.
The rest of the day was spent trying to cross Montana. Trying is the key word. I had no idea how big and vast Montana is. It’s a totally beautiful state. I90 isn’t a boring highway, curves, hills, and mostly empty! Heaven for the 918. Semis? Maybe one second total for the passing, well maybe 2. Did a pass on 4 semis in a train in no time.
Took hwy 212 instead of sticking to Interstate, that’s even more of a heavenly road, while only single lane, it is literally empty, we went on for 10 15 mins at a time without seeing another car. That route took us out of Montana, through a bit of Wyoming and then South Dakota. I too pics of each state but all of them looks pretty much the same. Same sort of landscape with yellow hayfields and hills on the background, but the road is definitely not flat.
we cut back to I90 eventually when in South Dakota, and we saw the sign for Sturgis, we literally made the exit last moment. We had to visit the biker town. Had dinner there and the ended up in Rapid City for the night.
Gonna take a slight back track to head to Mount Rushmore first in the morning. We are 20 mins away and had to go.
scheduled end point for tomorrow is Des Moines Iowa.
5 states done. 3 more to go.
Random gas station pic in the middle of nowhere.
And the 918 in Harley Mecca…..
And I am not even kidding about the same landscape for 3 states. First one is Montana, second is Wyoming, third is South Dakota. All along Hwy 212.
just under 1300 miles done, 1150 to go for the next couple days.
Right now, we are averaging 24 mpg. I dare anyone to find anything remotely comparable.And I haven’t even plug it in to charge up since I left home.
Talkning about charging, after we left Spokane, we haven’t seen a single Tesla, or EV for that matters. Not even charging spots. Towns in Montana are like 100 miles apart. No joke. In between it’s like absolutely nothing.
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