Devil’s Tower & the Fountain of Youth
One of the many things learned on the road is that RV parks are either like neighborhoods from the fifties populated by people who are generally happy, with kids riding bikes, people… Read More
End of the Trail for South Dakota
Today was a get-it-done day. Ronan and I prepped the truck for travel – refueled, added DEF, aired up the tires, and reconfigured the bed. The boys and I did a little… Read More
Wind Cave National Park & Custer State Park
By Friday morning a lot of our fellow campers had packed and headed out, with a fresh batch likely to arrive in the afternoon. Although Hill City is a good hour or… Read More
Mount Rushmore & the Black Hills
The first three nights in Hill City were pretty low key – in other words, we slept in, re-organized the truck and coach, caught up on emails and hit the grocery. The… Read More
Interior to Hill City
The trade-off of a short travel day is that loading up the truck and driving that first mile isn’t nearly as attractive as languishing in bed. Inertia is a warm, confortable bed… Read More
Off the Beaten Path in the Badlands
The weather in the Badlands is notorious for being very, very hot in the summer – and unpredictable. We lucked out as our journey followed a cool front from Canada that gave us… Read More
Medora to Badlands National Park
It was a pleasant drive from Theodore Roosevelt National Park near Medora, North Dakota to Badlands National Park, about an hour southeast of Rapid City, South Dakota. The countryside was a living… Read More
Work Day in Medora
Because it was going to be hot and humid and we had a fair amount of travel planning to do, we headed into Medora to find good connectivity for phones and Internet.… Read More