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We visited Pipestone National Monument today. Though we'd not known about the park, we've known about it's product and a bit about it's significance in Native American culture. The peace pipe is carved from stone found only here. This is sacred land where these...
We remembered this eatery from our 2008 trip and set the GPS to lead us to Al's Oasis. At's an iconic restaurant just off I-90 at Oacoma SD. I's a pretty comprehensive travelers rest stop: fuel, groceries, souvenirs, lodging, camping, and restaurant. Been there nearly...
After a fun evening in the City of Presidents and a delightful visit with our campground neighbors, we are eastbound on I-90. We traveled this stretch in '73 on our honeymoon and in '08 on our three month ramble. Both times we were westbound and both times we stayed...
Thanks to Jana we've finally, on our third visit to the Black Hills, visited downtown Rapid City, City of Presidents! It was a delightful evening. She met us at the KOA where we got to show her our T@B then on to a delicious meal at Tally's Silver Spoon, a trip to the...
See Park Video Agate Fossil Beds National Monument is out in the middle of the prairie many miles from any sizable city, in fact the closest town is Harrison, Nebraska 25 miles to the north, a community of less than three hundred people. What was once the Agate...
See Park Video This morning we visited Chimney Rock. It was an iconic landmark on the Overland Trails. It's amazing to gaze on a bit of geology was was a much anticipated site for folks traveling west a hundred and fifty years ago!
See Park Video Rising 4659 feet above sea level, Scotts Bluff was a landmark on the Overland Trail, this huge rock rising out of the prairie. We stopped at the Scotts Bluff National Monument near Gering, Nebraska. At the Visitor Center we were the only visitors! When...
150th Anniv Ft Laramie Treaty Video See Park Video Another opportunity at Fort Laramie is to talk with a costumed interpreter at a covered wagon. We talked with her about the Mormon Migration. Our family connection is to a woman named Charity who left Karen's...
At Fort Laramie we were treated to an interpretive talk about the Mountain Howitzer and it's role, actually it's uselessness in the wide open spaces of Wyoming. But the fascinating thing is that it is the little baby brother of the Twelve Pound Napoleons that were...
Listened last night to the sounds of the nearby train switching yard. This morning saw a line of railroad coal cars as far as the eye can see. And everywhere we look it seems the scenery goes on as far as the eye can see.
Planning a trip? Dreaming of travel? Perhaps some of our adventures could inspire yours! Over the last several years we’ve had the distinct pleasure of many cross country journeys traveling though the Lower 48 in tents and our various teardrop campers as well as an amazing Alaska adventure that did not involve a camper.
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Tonight is our tenth night of driveway camping in Bell@ at our mountain house. This has given us the chance to bring home some items that we'd used in Sc@rlett that we do not currently need as we continue to get settled into Bell@. And we had just a few things to do...
Up to this point we have reveled in unstructured trip planning but these are not ordinary times and we are behaving in an out of the ordinary manner. We are making campsite reservations. With the exception of two one night mid-week stays, we have reservations for the...
What a delight to go hang out for a couple of hours in a winery knowing that the trek home is walking just a few yards to our camper. That's just what Mike and Shelly offered us at The Rusty Nail in Martinsburg, West Virginia last night. Lucky for us they joined...