Sunday, 6/17, headed out of the Mitchell, S Dakota Walmart parking lot about 6:40 AM. We stopped downtown to see the Corn Palace, a well known landmark in the state! The edifice is covered with corn cobs and wheat! Different. Then headed down the interstate toward the Badlands. The scenery in S. Dakota is rolling hills with some crops, but lots of prairie grass. Sweet yellow clover, a non native plant, grows plentiful on the roadside and in the fields giving the scenery some color. Small ponds and creeks dot the landscape. It looks very similar to the scenery in [View Full Entry]

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Thursday June 14th the Cozy Turtle hit the road bound for Alaska. We left at 7:15 am. The second time we left at 7:45 am. We hadn’t gone far before we found we had forgotten our favorite CD’s! So back we went to retrieve our music. When we left home it was cool and cloudy with off and on rain.(sort of like Alaska, I think). Our route took us west. The rolling hills of the Virginia piedmont turned into the foothills of the Shenandoah Mountains. We drove on through the Shenandoah Valley toward the Appalachian mountains of West Virginia. I noticed [View Full Entry]

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GETTING READY Retirement is almost here and are we ready! Frank has worked for over 30 years as an engineer and I was an administrator with a school system for 32 years. The Lord blessed us with good jobs and great opportunities and now we are excited about what lies ahead. To fully get into the swing of retirement we are packing our RV, The Cozy Turtle (CT for short), taking our 2 small poodles, Martie (white) and Regan (black and blind), and heading to Alaska for the summer. We talked about visiting Alaska several years ago, but the time [View Full Entry]

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