The best beach of the journey was easily Panama City Beach, Florida: The best sunset was in Albuquerque, New Mexico: The best drive of the trip is a three way tie between driving down the Florida Keys: Driving down Florida’s Atlantic Coast from…
Regional Roundup 2: The Midwest
The Midwest includes everything between North Dakota and Michigan and then down to Kansas and across to Ohio. Pluses for the Midwest include the relatively low cost of living. The Northern Midwest in particular is generally very well run in terms…
Day 6: Mount Rushmore and Eastern Wyoming
Friday morning we finally made it to Mount Rushmore, which Chris had really wanted to see since we recently re-watched Superman 2. It did not disappoint. Sure, the parking feels like a bit of a rip off, but the actual…
Day 5: The Badlands
We left Kadoka bright and early since we had changed time zone and getting up was easy. We headed off to Badlands National Park. From Native Americans to French fur traders, everyone has considered these lands ‘bad’. I assume what they…
Day 4: More SD – Corn, God and Time
We got our first rainy day so far in Mitchell. We went to see the Corn Palace anyway. There isn’t a lot to it, but it is fairly unique (and full of corn related products and humour): There was a…
Day 3: South Dakota and One of the World’s Weirdest Sculpture Parks
Windom, MN was extremely small and rural. We didn’t really speak to anyone there since we had arrived so late the night before and left first thing in the morning. Fortunately on the way out of town the next day, we…