Trip: Badlands & Black Hills
There are [19] stories from my trip: Badlands & Black Hills
USA | Sunday, 22 Jun 2008 | Views [344] | Comments [4]
4490 miles and 15 states. I feel like the Rolling Stones. I was in the car for 81 hours, used 226.9 gallons of regular unleaded and had a trip average 19.7 mpg. I figure my gas cost was about $885. I bought a dozen bags of ice, slept in three campgrounds ... Read more >
USA | Saturday, 21 Jun 2008 | Views [355]
From Limon, CO south and east through the Colorado, Oklahoma and Texas plains, the prairie was again vast, expansive. The difference was that the color had changed from green to various shades of brown. Drought was very apparent. The vistas are not the ... Read more >
USA | Friday, 20 Jun 2008 | Views [405] | Comments [1]
No bear last night after all. Oh well. This morning, Crayton and I went above Aspen to the Maroon Bells. This short ride took us up into a very picturesque valley below two 14ers. I have included some photos. We took a mile or so hike up the valley ... Read more >
USA | Friday, 20 Jun 2008 | Photo Gallery
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USA | Thursday, 19 Jun 2008 | Views [342] | Comments [2]
We pulled out of our relatively new Fairfield in Gillette, filled up on the only cheap gas I have seen up here, 3.79 (most has been 3.99-4.05) and went south on Hwy 59. As expected, the terrain was vast and mostly grasslands. Between Gillette and Douglas ... Read more >
USA | Thursday, 19 Jun 2008 | Photo Gallery
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USA | Tuesday, 17 Jun 2008 | Views [423] | Comments [2]
The answer to Crayton’s question of what did the buffalo hunters want the tongue for? To eat of course. Bison tongue is considered a delicacy. I’ll stick with sushi. Crayton is a trooper. He is hanging in pretty good. He was understandably timid about ... Read more >
USA | Tuesday, 17 Jun 2008 | Photo Gallery
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USA | Tuesday, 17 Jun 2008 | Views [329] | Comments [2]
Another Great Day started out at 6AM with a thunderstorm and waking to the patter of rain on the tent fly. Crayton snoozed until 7AM when the rain turned to hail. We stayed warm and dry though. We did try to take a picture of the pea size hail and I ... Read more >
USA | Tuesday, 17 Jun 2008 | Photo Gallery
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USA | Monday, 16 Jun 2008 | Views [257] | Comments [2]
I have fallen for the Black Hills. Yes, Crockett this is as good or better than BWCA. You will have to come with me sometime. Crayton and I started off with a hearty breakfast from the 3 day old Holiday Inn Express in Custer. We then went to Jewel ... Read more >
USA | Monday, 16 Jun 2008 | Photo Gallery
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USA | Saturday, 14 Jun 2008 | Views [279] | Comments [7]
We took off from Sioux Falls around 8-8:30 and headed west on I-90. Wall Drug in Wall, SD must be the Rock City of the north. If they had one billboard, they must have had 100s. Of course, over the 290 miles to Badlands, Wall Drug wasn't the only oddity.... Read more >
USA | Saturday, 14 Jun 2008 | Photo Gallery
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USA | Friday, 13 Jun 2008 | Views [263] | Comments [2]
600 miles -- Yow-za! We left out of K-1 around 10:30 and pulled into Sioux Falls, SD just before 8:00. It stormed on us from Branson past Springfield to around Bolivar, MO. By the time we reached KC around 2:00, the sun was out. At KC we caught I-29 ... Read more >
USA | Thursday, 12 Jun 2008 | Views [255] | Comments [2]
Wow. What a day. Batesville to Branson takes about 7 hours. Cheap gas by the way at Winona Pilot (3.75) Senatobia (3.79) West Memphis (3.79 but the Pilot immediately across the river was 3.69) Moutain Grove (3.72 where I filled up) and Branson is ... Read more >
USA | Thursday, 12 Jun 2008 | Views [205] | Comments [3]
I've made it to the cracker barrel in Batesville. 10 àm and 86.
USA | Monday, 9 Jun 2008 | Photo Gallery
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USA | Monday, 9 Jun 2008 | Views [512] | Comments [5]
Well, Crayton and I have been talking about this trip for several years. We almost pulled it off in 2006. It didn't work out but we are ready now. Or getting ready .... I've been packing and making lists, things I like to do. Wait, let me back ... Read more >
