It's that time of year again, and a very momentous one at that. Thursday night has arrived and I should be packing, BUT, I thought I would get a head start on blogging about our impending trip to South Dakota. It was 2011 when I gave birth to this baby blog. Much like my attempts at maintaining photo albums (ask my kids), this endeavor has been hit and mostly miss. This time last year, our journey was uncertain. David, who I will only this once refer to as Dear Hubby Wubby, had just been released from the hospital. Two very long months of hospital stays, a 15 pound weight loss, unanswered questions, and finally a surgery to gut out the problem (pun intended), the evil pancreatitis had been slain. You wanna ride 1,500 long, hot, deserted
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