A day’s drive west. We did a good job pacing the trip north. Lots of stopping. Multiple days in each place before moving on. The drive back south was different. We pretty much just drove. Stopping a lot makes a better trip. Life gets a little cluttered if you drive all day… and try to get anything else done as well. St Vrain State Park. 5,240 trip miles. Dinner with Becky and the gang.
Along the way
Wednesday – Nebraska
South on highway 83. More sharp tailed grouse along the road. We loved the wide open spaces of North Dakota and South Dakota. Northern Nebraska; more of the same. Rolling grassland. Rolling cropland. Lakes. Ponds. Swamps. The occasional forest. More water than one would expect in Nebraska. Horses and cows in fields of grass up to their bellies. Nice place to be. Stopped at Holiday RV Park in North Platte. 4990 trip miles. http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=107013362562471418011.00046ff7cac9ae98ff560&z=4
Badlands
Hung out. Got some work done. Took a walk in the Badlands.
Monday – Dakota Badlands
A rough weather night last night…. On the weather channel anyway. A strange looking sky overhead. Tornado warning from the national weather service. Heavy thunderstorms to our north. For us… a quiet night. South to South Dakota. East to the Badlands. Camping in the National Park is primitive. We didn’t want that so we’re in the KOA right outside. The sun sets at a more civilized time here. It was down by 7:30 and dark by a little after 8. http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=107013362562471418011.00046ff7cac9ae98ff560&z=4 4,735 trip miles.