I could hardly believe it! I’ve never heard of any animal having the plague! As we drove through the Badlands National Park we saw signs all over that warned people to not get out of their cars because the prairie dogs have the actual bubonic plague! We asked the ranger about it and she said that the… Read More Prairie Dogs with the Plague!
Badlands National Park, South Dakota I wasn’t sure what to expect. We have been in the Badlands of New Mexico, but thought South Dakota’s Badlands would be different, and they sure are! We all thought they were a cross between the Grand Canyon and the Painted Desert, both in Arizona. It was beautiful, yet so… Read More The Badlands of South Dakota and Buffalo Gap Grasslands
The Smith family at Mt. Rushmore Mt. Rushmore – A place I had always dreamed to go. I guess it is one of those places that is so famous it just seems like everyone should see it once. So, I was telling my mom about how great it was to finally see it and she told me… Read More Mount Rushmore, Keystone, South Dakota
Custer State Park in South Dakota was an awesome experience that I highly recommend and cannot wait to go back to… It was such an incredible experience. Seeing the buffalo from inside the safety of our van was wonderful. They were all around our van. We couldn’t even move! The traffic was backed up for… Read More The Buffalo Around Our Vehicle at Custer State Park, South Dakota
DO NOT PULL A TRAILER ON NEEDLES HIGHWAY! Do you want to know why I say this, or how I know it should not be done? Yes, we were the dumb ones on Needles Highway in the Black Hills of South Dakota last week, pulling a trailer. We arrived in South Dakota on July 18th.… Read More Pulling a trailer on Needles Highway…big mistake!
Nebraska was beautiful! Who knew there was more than grass there? I wasn’t very impressed when we first drove across the border from Kansas to Nebraska on Hwy 281 north of Lebanon, where we stopped to see the geographic center of the United States, (see previous post). The second we crossed into Nebraska the roads… Read More Nebraska, Dawes County Museum, Hwy 2, and the Amazing Sandhills
It was one of those, “we are complete tourists” moments. We drove all the way to the geographical center of the continental U.S. It was in the middle of nowhere in Northwest Kansas. We had to go one mile north and then one mile west of Lebanon, Kansas. The guys at the gas station just before it said we… Read More Geographical Center of the United States, Lebanon Kansas and that Mean Rooster!
Yesterday, Tuesday the 14th of July, we stopped by a gas station here in Marysville, Kansas. After two hours on the road I was beat – I know, pretty wimpy. I was pretty tired so I had Cody run in and ask the attendant if there was a campground close by. She said we could… Read More An Unexpected Stop in an Awesome Little Town – Marysville, Kansas
Most people have heard of the Donner Party from 1846. They are the group of 87 pioneers heading west that got trapped in mountains in California. Their story is tragic and horrific. Not many people know this same group passed through Marysville, Kansas. We took the hike to Alcove Spring near the Big Blue River.… Read More Donner Party, Alcove Spring, Kansas and a Copperhead
7-12-09 Woke up early hoping to get off early this morning since we didn’t get off last night. Thank goodness my mom made us lunch and dinner yesterday and Meg made us biscuits and gravy this morning. Sure saved us a lot of time not having to clean the kitchen. We really appreciate their thoughtfulness.. It was… Read More First Few Hours Back on the Road! I Gotta Pee….
The Lemonade Digest 