Our vacation has finally come to a close. We woke up Tuesday morning in La Crosse, Wisconsin and thought that depending on how the day went, we might try to drive home that day. We got on the road around 7:45AM and made our first stop outside of Chicago in Naperville, Illinois around noon for deep dish pizza. We had our pizza and it was pretty good although there is nothing better than a good thin crust pizza. After lunch we set our sights for home and kept driving. After about 1060 miles we made it home at about 3:15AM Tuesday [View Full Entry]

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I didn't have time to post anything yesterday because we were out late, but let me do a quick recap of the last two days for you. Yesterday we were still in South Dakota and we got up early to drive the Needles Highway, which is a scenic road throughout the Black Hills with some interesting rock formations along the way. After Needles Hwy we went to Mt. Rushmore and spent some time there staring at the mountain and going through the visitors center. It hasn't changed in 16 years (that's probably a good thing) but it was still very awe [View Full Entry]

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Today begins the slow journey back east. We were up early this morning and left Greybull, WY and headed east towards South Dakota. We drove for about 40 minutes until we found a town big enough to have a place open where we could buy breakfast. There really is very little in Wyoming. I think the largest town we passed through today had about 8000 people. The landscape is beautiful though. It reminded me a lot of Texas. Nothing but ranches and some oil wells as far as the eye can see. We drove most of the morning to Devils Tower [View Full Entry]

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Thursday morning Dad and I got up early from Gardiner, MT and went into Yellowstone for the day. We drove all through the park stopping at all the neat little places to see. We saw more hot springs, mud pits, Old Faithful, and all sorts of wildlife. We went down one road for a while where there was a herd of at least 200 bison (I counted 80 in just one little area) and we got some great close up photos. We spent most of the morning and afternoon driving south through the park and into Grand Teton National Park. We [View Full Entry]

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We did not have internet service in Glacier National Park the past two days so unfortunately I couldn't post anything. We are currently in Gardiner, Montana, just outside Yellowstone National Park. We spent Monday driving about 500 miles from Billings to Glacier. Monday we explored Glacier and drove the Highway to the Sun. Today we drove about 500 miles from Glacier down to Yellowstone National Park and we spent a few hours this evening driving around the park. Tomorrow we are spending the day in Yellowstone. I'm going to keep this short because it is late and I still have to [View Full Entry]

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Firstly, yesterday's blog has been updated with photos. That being said, we made it today into Billings, Montana. It was about a 715 mile drive from Alexandria, Minnesota this morning. Most of the drive was flat farmland throgh North Dakota, much like we had seen for the past two days. Once we near the last 30 miles of North Dakota and into Montana the landscape started to look a little nicer. There were rolling hills, some interesting looking rock formations, and still a whole lot of nothing. We still haven't turned the radio on and we gained another hour today so [View Full Entry]

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Firstly, I know I promised photos for this blog but they're not here. This computer is a POS (sorry, Mom, but this isn't anything new to you) and the program that is supposed to download the photos from the camera onto the computer is not working and I can't figure it out so unfortunately the photos are going to have to wait for tomorrow. We're going to buy some stuff tomorrow that will allow me to easily download the photos onto the computer and get them on here for everyone to see. That being said, today was another long, but good [View Full Entry]

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Day 1 of our great American adventure was a success. Unfortunately Dad's VW was unable to make the trip with us due to some electrical problems so we have my Mom's Ford instead. So now we can't drive to Montana on vegetable oil, which is slightly disappointing but I'm just happy to be going regardless of the car I'm in. We made it without incident to Goshen, Indiana, approximately 650 miles from home. We left this morning around 9 and got to our motel here a little before 9 this evening. It was nice to see that since we haven't changed [View Full Entry]

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It's been quite a while since I used this, being I only created it to document my trip to Thailand last year, but my Dad suggested it would be a good idea to wipe the dust off and use it again for our road trip this summer. Tomorrow my father and I are leaving on a 12 (13?) day cross country road trip to a place I've been bugging him to take me for about 16 years now: Glacier National Park. While that is the highlight of the trip we'll also be making various stops at some other famous landmarks along [View Full Entry]

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So I just spent about 20 minutes writing part of this blog only to accidentally leave the webpage thinking that it had saved itself, only to find out that it did not save and I had lost everything I wrote. So now for the second time, here comes my promised final blog. I've been putting off writing this all week because I really had no idea what I wanted to write and I still don't really know, but I'm going to try and hopefully give some perspective into my trip and hopefully some coherent thoughts will come out of it. I [View Full Entry]

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