Alex and Kim’s Adventures

Written by Kim Utah is the 45th state and became a state in 1848. Salt Lake City is the capital. Utah is called the Beehive State because early settlers, who were primarily members of the Church of Jesus Christ saw the beehive as the perfect metaphor for their industriousness and hard work. Ironically, the seagull […]

Written by Kim We left Boise about 8 am to take our 5 hour drive to Salt Lake City. It wasn’t a very exciting day today just a drive. Did I tell you I really like Love’s. It’s like Wawa with some healthy snacks like fruit, cheese and hard boiled eggs that are really fresh. […]

Written by Kim Well part of the reason we came to Boise was to be able to take a short drive over the border to check off Oregon. We know we’re not seeing the coast of Oregon which is amazing but I’m sure we have a trip to Bandon Dunes in the future so just […]

Written by Kim Wow just wow! We left our hotel in Montana at o dark thirty (6:20 am) that’s a saying my good friend, Kathryn, always used! We had a 2 1/2 hour drive to the North East entrance of Yellowstone. We read the drive over Beartooth Pass was spectacular and they were correct. Yellowstone […]

Written by Kim Today was a bit of a long drive as we left Deadwood heading west to Montana, We drove a little over 5 hours excluding stops. Not much to write about today so I’ll include some fun facts of our trip so far. We left home 18 days ago and have driven 4,523 […]

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 […]