This little road trip my sister and I took during the first week of July 1997 started out so simple. We had planned for several weeks to go to New Braunfels for the 4th of July weekend and tube down the Guadalupe river. However, at the last minute, we found out the river had flooded, and hence tubing was closed. Not ready to give up and stay at home, we decided to look elsewhere for other places to go tubing. We finally decided on the Niobrara river in northern Nebraska, and while we were at it, we'd also go up to South Dakota and see Mt. Rushmore. Well, we did the tubing (although I don't have any pictures from that part of the trip). And on the day we went to South Dakota, we were in kind of an adventurous mood, so we decided since we were so close to both states, that we'd dip through a bit of Montana and Wyoming just to say we'd been there. The result is this collection of mostly "roadside" snapshots (hey, where I come from, deer don't normally just roam the side of the road like that! :) ).