Category Archives: 2017

I was supposed to write this last blog post on the day of the trip to Omaha from the Badlands… but the drive was so exhausting and uneventful (though we did visit Minuteman National Historic Park—very well done and sobering) that I thought I’d give myself some time to drive back to Asheville and getContinueContinue reading “Day 40 — The End”

First of all I’m sorry I put so much pictures in there I actually put 25 first we started at Mount Rushmore are first stop where there were four presidents: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln,  Theodore Roosevelt, and Thomas Jefferson.and then we went to wall drug are second stop we saw the first sign from 100ContinueContinue reading “Day 39 – Badlands and they’re really actually nice not bad”

part 1: waterpark. there is really no better way to wake up in the morning than riding a awesome waterslide.  part 2:mammoth after we went to the water park we went to a mammoth excavation site and saw some pretty cool mammoth skeletons part 3: wind cave after the mammoth site we went to windContinueContinue reading “Day 38 – My Last Blog Post on the Trip”

Today we had a close encounter with rocks. Lots of rocks. A wonderful field of boulders just waiting to be climbed on: The “foothill” of Devils Tower. After spending more than 8 hours on the road yesterday, it was wonderful to just roll out of the campsite and into a National Monument this morning, thoughContinueContinue reading “Day 37 – Devils Tower”

N.B.: out of consideration for some of our concerned readers, we are posting this list of dangers after leaving Yellowstone unscathed, rather than before entering the park. I picked up this book out of morbid curiosity and haven’t been able to put it down: Full of first-hand accounts filled with gory details, this book discussesContinueContinue reading “Day 36 – Four Days in Yellowstone – or, Dozens of Ways to Die, Averted”

first instead of going to Yellowstone we stayed at the campground but after the camp ground we went horse back riding and came right back to the rodeo at the horse back riding we did a hour long horse back ride are horses were named bullet my dads silver my moms boe mine and handsomeContinueContinue reading “Day 35 – Yellowstone KOA”

Yellowstone is more  beautiful than I ever imagined it (but a lot  more smelly!) today we went to Yellowstone National Park again, but first…we went to the town of West Yellowstone, Montana.  it was an old timey cowboy town. we went to a lot of weird gift shops well as ate at a very goodContinueContinue reading “Day 34 – Yellowstone (take 2)”

Despite getting plenty of exercise yesterday, I had a real problem falling asleep in our Jackson Lake Lodge Cabin (planned as a break from our RV). I actually wonder whether I am now completely adjusted to the RV and have a hard time sleeping elsewhere. Or maybe it’s just the altitude. In any case, IContinueContinue reading “Day 32 – Teton to Yellowstone”

This was our second day at Grand Tetons. first we went to the pool and did the totem pole we also did jousting on my dads shoulders and then we went to Jackson and went to the town square where there were these arches of elk horns and we also saw some buffalo. in JacksonContinueContinue reading “Day 31 – Jackson WY”