DMR: day 7-8, ND —> MN
Highway I-94 through North Dakota and Minnesota is lined with “biggest”, either in the world or the USA. Karlien and I try to see most of them, but the early nightfall this far North prevented a few. Look at what … Continued
DMR: day 7, Theodore Roosevelt NP
Theodore Roosevelt NP The park was beautiful, cold and windy. The animals were close, the Little Missouri River frozen and the flowers don’t bloom in winter. Still it was breathtaking…. I will return some day in spring or summer. There … Continued
DMR: day 6, SD-WY-MT-> ND
335 miles, from South Dakota to North Dakota, but to be able to add 2 more states we took a little western detour on our detour. Backroads, wide prairies, and fields all covered with the beige winter look filled our … Continued
Detour MOUNT RUSHMORE on day 5
This is what we are here for: the Mount Rushmore National Memorial and our goal is to do our “Live @5” from the monument. But we had not counted on the overly displayed… Closed for the Season The pictures will … Continued
DMR: day 4, Badlands NP
For the next 3 nights we are done driving, well, driving long distance. Because with these low temperatures we will be sightseeing while driving. LOL. We are exploring the Badlands National Park and we start the day with a 2 … Continued
DMR: day 3, KS —> SD
In the spirit of: “We just want to get to the Dakotas and do things there”, we had another driving day of about 600 miles. We drove the second half of Kansas and all of Nebraska…. and it is amazingly … Continued
DMR : day 2, TX —>KS
So this road trip we planned around Mount Rushmore, and you actually never get there by accident. So today and tomorrow we will cover a lot of miles, with just a few fun photo-ops and curiosities along the way. We … Continued
Detour Mount Rushmore (DMR): day 0 & 1
The first 24 hours Friday Night: I started driving after work, a bit later then 6 PM (hum, 8 PM) and didn’t, even make it out of Florida. The biggest challenge of the evening was finding a gas station at … Continued