583: Photos taken on the trip.
867: Number of dead bug bodies that are still blasted across the front of my car.
30+: Gas mileage for the trip.
6: States I covered during the trip, including Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota, and thanks to my GPS, Nebraska.
3: Fridge magnets I picked up to commemorate the trip.
2: National Parks I drove through (Yellowstone and Wind Cave).
5: Times I wondered if I should have ordered two burgers instead of just one at Maddox on the way up, because they're just so darn good.
15: Mph rate posted on the new speed limit signs along the dirt road by my family cabin.
1: Batch of fresh salsa I made at the family cabin, officially kicking off the fresh salsa season.
1,000: Number of people in attendance at the Island Park Ward sacrament meeting.
650: Pound-weight of the boulder my friends and I rolled into Quake Lake on Sunday afternoon because we got bored with skipping rocks.
1.5: Rainbows that showed up at Devils Tower the evening I arrived.
.42 Percentage of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" that I watched on my laptop inside the borrowed tent I had set up in the dark in a $12 camping spot under the tower while a windstorm tried to blow me away.
9: Deer I encountered at 5:45AM while driving in for some sunrise shots of Devils Tower.
17,000: Bikers I encountered on highways between Devils Tower, Wyoming and Custer, South Dakota, thanks to the annual biker rally in Sturgis which was taking place the same week.
17,000+: Bikers I encountered while cruising the main drag in Sturgis, which is located just off I-90 in-between Devils Tower and Mount Rushmore.
18: Length of the horns (in inches) that were sticking out of the helmet of one of the swarm of bikers that visited Mount Rushmore with me.
7: Times I encountered the Biker Mama of My Dreams at the Mount Rushmore Gift Shop, but failed to speak to hear out of fear that she would stick me with a shiv.
117: Extra miles tacked onto the total trip because my GPS told me to go south into Nebraska after Mount Rushmore instead of cut diagonally across Wyoming like the Google Maps thing suggested.
75: Times I had to hit the brakes, deactivate my cruise control and drop 20MPH because a clump of semis were trying to pass each other and blocking both highway lanes.
8: Times AT&T dropped my call home along I-80 while my parents were trying to help me research room prices for Wyoming motels.
0: Dead bodies under my motel bed in Rawlins, Wyoming. (If you'd been there, you'd have been excited, too.)
7: Times I wondered whether I should make an extra spin north to Maddox once I emerged from I-84 just south of Ogden before completing the journey home, because their burgers are just so darn good.
