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Day 315 – Duluth, MN

  There's a strange cosmic connection between Seattle, WA and Duluth, MN or at least Minnesota generally. A large contingent…

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Day 314 – The SPAM Museum (Austin, MN)

  Where I grew up, SPAM was considered a ghetto food. I mean I grew up poor on bologna sandwiches…

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Day 313 – The Grotto of Redemption (South Bend, IA)

  The Grotto of Redemption Believed to be the largest grotto in the world, Father Paul Dobberstein, a German immigrant,…

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Day 313 – Porter Sculpture Park (Montrose, SD)

  Porter Sculpture Park About 30 miles west of Sioux Falls in the middle of corn fields near Montrose, South…

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Day 313 – The Corn Palace (Mitchell, SD)

  The Corn Palace The Corn Palace is a concert hall / sports center in Mitchell, SD, that is decorated…

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Day 311 – The Badlands

  For over 11,000 years the badlands region of South Dakota has been inhabited by native people. The soft sedimentary…

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Day 310 – Wall Drug and Dinosaur Park

  There's not much to see on the drive across South Dakota. Fortunately enterprising folks have been constructing roadside kitsch…

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Day 304 to 309 – Driving through the Black Hills: Devil’s Tower, Deadwood, Mount Rushmore

  We drove into the Black Hills setting off from Little Big Horn. An island of Ponderosa pine covered granite…

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Day 301 – St. Xavier, Montana – “My lands are where my dead lie buried.”

  I'm sitting in a small hunting cabin in St. Xavier, Montana in the middle of the Crow reservation, population:…

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Day 295 – Grand Teton National Park

  [Mile 1,820 to 2,200 ]    Directly below Yellowstone National Park sits Grand Teton National Park. The two parks…

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Where am I now?

Eugene, OR

(We’ve reached the end of our trip.  Time to settle down for a bit and recharge our batteries and our bank accounts.  It’s been a good run.  Eugene had the right kind of vibe we were looking for.  Good people.  A good size.  Affordable.  We’re going to give it a go here.  But we’re open to what comes.)

 

Next up:

Nowhere for the moment

(For the first time in three years we don’t have the next adventure planned out.  That’s going to be a strange reality to adjust to.)