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Altitude Adjustment
As I said at the end of my last post, I found out at the last minute that Wind Cave National Park’s main attraction, Wind Cave, is closed this year because they are redoing the elevator shaft that leads down into the cave. That’s a bummer, and I definitely want to come back sometime when…
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Not-So-Bad Lands
On Tuesday I made it to Badlands National Park in southwest South Dakota. This is actually my second visit to a “badlands” park, as I went in 2021 to Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota with a similar kind of terrain. The badlands got their name because they are certainly inhospitable to travelers, with…
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Little RV on the Prairie
My National Parks tour called for me to move on from Voyageurs in Minnesota to Badlands in South Dakota, but the town of De Smet, South Dakota was more or less right on my path, so of course I had to plan a stop there. For those who don’t know, De Smet was the home…
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Voyageuing
Once again I have fallen behind on blogging. I am already juggling to keep up with sightseeing, full-time self-employment with strict deadlines, and grad school. When push comes to shove, blogging becomes a low priority. But I’m going to try to get caught up now. I’ve decided that rather than do one mega-entry, I’ll break…
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Barns and Baseball and Breton
You may not be shocked to hear that the most outstanding feature of rural northern Illinois is corn. Yes, it’s a stereotype, and yes, it’s true. It’s pretty different from the Appalachians, but believe it or not, I find it beautiful too in its own way. The land is such a vibrant green and the…
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From the mountains to the prairies…
Summer of ’24 is underway! I launched my travels with a drive to eastern Tennessee. The start was a little rough as I found I had lost one of the safety clips for my flat tow hitch pin to pull my truck, and the bolt I tried to substitute didn’t do the job and got…
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Back in the Saddle
Well, here I am resuming my blog (and my travels) after an almost ten-month hiatus. I didn’t mean for last year’s entries to end so abruptly, and I didn’t even realize how much I had left unwritten about the unexpected end of last year’s journey. I had an extremely stressful month between when I wrote…
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Waterfalls, Cannons, and Caves
I spent much of my Fourth of July exploring Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Ohio. Cuyahoga is one of those parks that blends in with the surrounding community, without gates or admission booths or fees. I passed through one part that looked like an ordinary municipal park, with people grilling out around picnic tables and…
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Oh, Hi, Ohio
When I left Prince Edward Island, I crossed back into Maine (a frustrating experience with GPS directing me into the dead-end of a closed border crossing…). Since then I’ve stayed in Maine, New Hampshire, Canada again (Quebec/ Ontario), and now Ohio, so it’s past time for me to catch up here. Back in Maine, I…
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Ingleside
Today I went and checked out some of the Lucy Maud Montgomery-related sites that aren’t right in Cavendish. Out of curiosity (and a hunger for a fast-food burger that doesn’t cost $20) I drove over to Summerside, scene of “Anne of Windy Poplars,” one of the few major place names she didn’t bother to disguise.…
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