Yesterday was a long day - longer than expected. Molly and I decided we really wanted to visit a Ghost Town so we made a detour south to Virginia City to visit the Alder Gulch ghost town. Virginia City used to be a "large" city (back in the 1800's) with 10,000 people. It was the place to be in Montana during the Gold Rush. Now only 132 people live there! They don't even have cell phone service!

It was really cool. We spent about 2 hours walking around and we ate a quick lunch there. We could have stayed all day. They have a ghost tour at night that I really would have liked to take. Someday I'm going to go back to Montana and see Yellowstone and spend more time in Virginia City. Very cool.

After that we drove for another 3-4 hours. Adam was feeling sick so Molly, Patrick and I took turns driving the two cars. It meant more driving and less rest, but it was okay. It's a little different driving through Montana than it is driving through Pennsylvania - there is far less traffic. I spent most of the afternoon in the car with Patrick. Molly wanted to ride with her brother to make sure he was feeling okay. Patrick's a really cool guy. I actually had a lot of fun talking to him.

We drove to Billings and stopped at the Cracker Barrel for dinner. I had intermittent cell phone reception all day so it wasn't until we stopped that I realized Josh had called me back. He just left me a message thanking me for my call. There wasn't much to it, but it set me back a little. Hearing his voice made me homesick all of a sudden and I started thinking about how the last time I was at Cracker Barrel, I was on my road trip with him to Tennessee.

I drove for a few hours with Molly, and the poor girl had to hear me go on and on about Josh. She looked relieved when she switched cars with Patrick midway between Billings and Keystone. That was actually our longest stretch of the day, but when it was just me and Patrick I was forced not to dwell on the whole Josh thing and I started to have a good time again.

We pulled into Keystone pretty late and we were all exhausted. Molly and I went to our room and fell asleep almost immediately. I slept like a rock. Now I'm up early again and ready for a fun day at Mount Rushmore!