Originally I intended our return trip to be more or less a duplicate of the trip out -- only more driving and much less fun every day. When I thought about it, if I thought about it at all, I felt nothing much more than dread. Here we would be, tired of vacation, really to go home, and staring down the barrel of seven days of hard driving broken up only by a visit to J's Mom and Dad, who we love, but who, each in their own special way, are not easy people to visit. And then on Sunday I had something of an epiphany. I had been thinking of adding a visit to Yellowstone to our trip, but it seemed like such a huge extra addition that I just dismissed it. Until I realized that, except for the drive to Yellowstone itself, going there wouldn't add that much to our cross-country timetable while allowing us to take a completely different route home. 
So now, instead of just a boring drive home, our return trip will include Yellowstone, a stop at Mt. Rushmore, an overnight visit in DeSmet, South Dakota, where Laura Ingalls Wilder, of Little House fame, lived as a teenager and married her husband and where her parents both died. Then, as if that weren't fun enough, we're going to take another small detour to have lunch with my best friend from jr. high school. We'll be camping in Yellowstone and at Mt. Rushmore and in Wisconsin. Suddenly our return trip seems as exciting as the trip out to Utah is going to be, plus we'll have Jay with us, so twice as fun. Yippee!
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