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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Normally we only stop occasionally on the way to our campsite to get fuel and go to the bathroom, but today we stopped no less than three times to look at famous landmarks and monuments. The first place we stopped was Chimney Rock. Chimney Rock is the most mentioned landmark in journals made by migrants
This week we went on a boat 🚤 ride. We rented a Pontoon boat and a raft and some water skis. Bother and I rafted until our fingers felt like falling off. We both also tried waterskiing, neither of us were very good but we did try. We also saw a bunch of dark brown
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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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We were at the Stevens’s house for the Fourth of July weekend. The house is right on a lake, it’s so close that instead of a backyard there is a beach. The lake gets super deep really quick, which is nice because I can dive off of the dock. There’s also a boat which I
🐠A few days ago, Bother and I learned how to Wakeboard. We fell a few times but we did get up and Wakeboard. Yesterday I went fishing/diving. Fishing and diving were done at the same time. Fishing required a net, diving required some goggles 🥽. I have caught ten and a half fish so far.
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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There are a lot of things to do in the rv. My favorite thing to do is play blackjack, but not everyone is a big fan of the game, so I don’t get to play it very much. We also play DnD (Dungeons and Dragons) quite often. It is a very fun game. I play
