It's Monday night. We made great time today! We drove about 600 miles. We have now driven just over 1,000 miles so far. The weather was good, for the most part, except when Heidi was driving. It was really foggy, we could hardly see in front of us. But...whenever I was driving, it was sunny skies!!! Who has the black cloud over them now???? We drove in three states today: Wisconsin, Minnesota, and South Dakota. We took a lot of pictures. My glove box is stuck, so we can't get to our eating utensils, or my cell phone car charger. Oh [View Full Entry]

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Well, as you can read on Cindy's posting, we are in South Dakota. We crossed the Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers today. We are about 75 miles away from the time zone change. Hopefully, we can get an earlier start tommorrow and maybe drive about 650 miles into the mountains........ We are staying at a Comfort Inn again. We have a suite room and it is nice with a microwave and fridge, but no couch. We do sorta feel like we are in "The Shining" movie cause I think we are the only hotel guests !!!! It feels real deserted and [View Full Entry]

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Now the pictures from Day 2 [View Full Entry]

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Adding the rest of Day 2 pictures [View Full Entry]

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Posting Map MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE It is snowing here......... [View Full Entry]

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So it turns out I live in the U.S. and travel here as well! This is another domestic entry. Over fall break (Oct. 19-23), a group of student photographers and myself along with our professor traveled to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in Shannon County, South Dakota. Our focus was to do a series of photo essays on women who are leaders in the Lakota community, because we decided that the whole drugs and alcohol and violence thing was way overdone. It was a wonderful experience. Our first night on the "Rez," we went Red Cloud school where a reservation-wide pow [View Full Entry]

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Countdown to Departure Well, only 10 days until I fly out of Denver International Airport. I have been busy reading about what to bring/not bring and taking care of the things that I need to get done before I leave. I have found lots of websites that document other peoples travels around this region and the more I read, the more I get excited about my trip. For a while I was questioning whether or not I should take my bike for my mode of transportation, however, the more I read other peoples accounts, the more I became convinced that biking [View Full Entry]

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Not a whole lot to report from the time I left Rapid City. Other than the Badlands, South Dakota is pretty boring. As is most of Iowa and Illinois. The only bright spot was stopping to see my cousin and her family in Newton, IA before I got to my parents' house. Congrats to my brother's football team for their 10-7 playoff victory on Friday night. Next week it's the big rival St. Joe! Well, I'm off for a few days before my dad and I head to Niaga Falls and then Boston. I'll have more to report in a few [View Full Entry]

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You wouldn't think there is a whole lot to do in South Dakota near Rapid City, but I could have spent a lot of time exploring the area. On my way to Mt. Rushmore, I decided to stop at "Bear Country USA." Bear Country is a privately owned wildlife area that you can drive through viewing all kinds of wildlife. There were elk, reindeer, mountain goats, arctic wolves, mountain lions, and brown bears, among others. The animals were all out in the open so you were not supposed to get out of your car. As the animals were walking around I [View Full Entry]

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Obfuscator writes: After sleeping on a pinecone for most of the night, we woke up and took a walk down to Lake Pactola to see the dawn. The lake level was extraordinarily low, and so on our way to where the lake actually is, we got to walk on a lot of ground where the lake actually was. This was evidenced by the concrete bucket anchors we found littering the ground we were walking on. There were also some tall and mysterious plants (mainly mysterious because we're willfully ignorant of plants) and cool shale formations all over the place. It was [View Full Entry]

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