*whew*

[kickaha]

We're back. No time for a decent write-up right now, but here are some quick stats to tide you over:

Days: 23
Miles: 8110.1
Longest single day (miles): 1054
Longest single day (hours): 18.25
Gallons of gas: (fill in later)
National/state parks visited: 9
Open pit mines visited: 1
States traversed: 17
Oceans visited: 2
Highest altitude (Jeep): 11,992ft
Highest altitude (foot): 12,020 ft
Time taken to recover breath after running those last 28ft: don't ask
Lowest altitude: sea level (twice)
Brakes set on fire: 2
Wildfires seen: 5
Campers burned to frame seen on side of interstate: 1
Bugs killed on front of Jeep: innumerable
Rainstorms: 4
Rainstorms hard enough to bring traffic to a near-halt on the interstate: 4
Mudslides blocking interstate: 1
Sunburns: 0
Farmer tans: 2
Times "Jane Says" played on the radio: too damned much for comfort
Meals eaten at *any* major fast food chain: **0**
Geysers seen: more than 20
Geysers seen erupting: 4
Dead rodents in very very hot springs: 2
Dead rodents on road: 2
Dead bunnies on road: 1
Dead cows on road: 1 (extra points for extreme state of bloating, in my opinion)
Photos taken: 580
Photos taken of dead things: 5
Passes driven over: 12
Worth mentioning: 7
"What pass?": 5

And finally....

Times gingko thought she was reenacting a Kafka text: 1