If you have been keeping track, you will notice that we are retracing many of our stops 20 years ago on our first cross country. Chris loves Lander, WY so of course we had to stop here again. We both remember visiting a ghost town during that trip and I bought a quilt from a […]
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We have spent the past two days exploring our corner of Wyoming around our base of Douglas. Yesterday we headed to Ft Laramie and the town of Guernsey. We packed a picnic lunch for Ft Laramie and enjoyed their picnic area before heading into the actual fort. While walking to the Visitor’s Center we were
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Another early morning for us resulted in sweeping view of the Black Hills. We started the day with a wildlife drive through Custer State Park. If yesterday was the day to see ALL the bighorn sheep, then today was the day of the Pronghorn. Along with lots of pronghorn, we happened upon a small herd
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Nebraska has amazed me. We are camped at Lake McConaughey in Ogallala, Nebraska for the week. It is beautiful. This lake is the largest in Nebraska and has over 1500 camping spots! It also has beautiful white sand beaches. Nebraska’s soil in this area (known as the Sandhills) is only sand. No topsoil in sight.
The RV has a decent, small shower. However, because of the size of the holding tank for waste water and our limited hot water, we need to take sea showers. A sea shower is a shower in which you turn off the water when you are not actively wetting down or rinsing off. Our shower
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A friend told us that if we were going to Nebraska we had to plan a stop at the Ashfall Fossil Beds. We are really glad he reached out to us! The fossil beds were discovered in 1971 when the jaw bone of a prehistoric rhino was discovered by a Paleontologist studying the geology in
Before arriving at the Ingalls Homestead in DeSmet, SD, we read By the Shores of Silver Lake as a family. It was wonderful to have that story fresh in our heads as we toured the town, but we quickly realized that we needed to start reading The Long Winter to understand some of the stories
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We didn’t make it in time to nab a spot at our planned First Come First Serve campground in Omaha, so we kept heading north while making some phone calls. We finally decided on a family run creamery in Larchwood, IA. A bonus of this stop is definitely the fact that now we get to
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While in Kansas City we have been finding fun mini adventures to fill our days. Today we headed into the city to visit the Steamship Arabia museum. This museum is dedicated to displaying the artifacts found when the Steamship Arabia was uncovered from its grave in a Kansas cornfield. The ship had sunk in 1856
Today’s adventure took place at the boyhood home of Samuel Clemens. We headed to Hannibal, MO, a small town located on the banks of the Mississippi River, to see the town he renamed St. Petersburg, MO for his books Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. We enjoyed learning about the real life people that inspired characters
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