Category: 2024

Written by Kim Deadwood is a quirky little place. It was named by early settlers after the dead trees were found in its gulch. The city had its heyday from 1876 to 1879, after gold deposits had been discovered there, leading to the Black Hills Gold Rush. At its height, the city had a population […]

Written by Kim Today was quite a busy day so this will be a bit of a long post but I organized it in sections so you can skip around if you’d like. We left Deadwood early this morning and looped to all the beautiful sites in SD returning to Deadwood which I’ll put in […]

Written by Kim Well…..last night I said we were going to take a drive and rest day but we decided to change that based on input from a friend (thanks Bob!) encouraging us to check out Badlands. We drove west about 4 hours from Sioux Falls. The drive was mostly prairie until we crossed the […]

Written by Kim Our drive today was a little over four hours and took us to another new state for both of us – South Dakota. The drive was mostly through prairies again with more hay bales but some windmills too. We’re starting to see a little more cattle as we get further south where […]

Written by Kim Our trip from Duluth to Fargo was a little over 5 hours. North Dakota is another new state for both of us. The drive was very rural with some small towns here and there. We know we’re now in the west because we crossed the Mississippi River. We passed lots of farms […]

Written by Kim The drive today took us west from the Upper Peninsula on part of Highway 2 into Wisconsin on our way to Duluth. We drove about 5 hours through areas of very spotty cell service which meant we also didn’t have Sirius radio. We learned that we have to restrict our fluid intake […]

Written by Kim We took the Mackinaw Bridge to head further northwest to the upper peninsula in MI. Driving over the bridge we had Lake Huron on one side and Lake Michigan on the other. It was a clear drive of about 2 1/2 hours to get to our next destination, Munising, MI. It was […]

Written by Kim We left Elkhart, IN on Sunday morning to head north through Michigan to Mackinaw City. I got a chance to get my own picture of the Indiana sign because I missed the Michigan sign so we had to turn around to get it. My photo skills are abysmal. Our drive was a […]

Written by Kim As we travel we look a few days out to plan our next stop. We knew we would be in Indiana on Friday and Alex realized that Notre Dame had a home game and it was against a smaller school, NIU – Northern Illinois, so there were tickets available at a reasonable […]

Written by Kim It’s a little cooler this morning as we leave Toledo heading to Indiana. Rain came in overnight so we needed to get some pants out to wear. The weather is a bit iffy so we didn’t rush to get started today. We again took no toll roads for a $12 savings in […]