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The only hard driving day so far. It was a beautiful drive especially through the Big Horn mountains. There was quite a bit of difficulty navigating w/o internet. Arrived at Yellowstone around 3 PM, set up, Will left to get Colleen at the Jackson Hole airport. We took the kids to see Old Faithful, hadContinue reading “Will’s B’day”

About a 4 hr drive from Mt. Rushmore, we picked this site in the Big Horn mountains simply because it was on the way to Yellowstone. There’s a beautiful stream behind the van and Rosie in this picture…. You can see the Volvo in the next campsite and our dog run on the left. TheContinue reading “Middle Fork CG”

After 3 nights at Horsethief lake we drove a mere 2 hours to Belle Fourche campground at the base of Devil’s Tower on June 21. A first come first serve campground we were worried about getting a spot but there were two or three open. Devil’s Tower is hard to believe. A massive column ofContinue reading “Devil’s Tower”

We were very pleased with the campsite at Horse Thief Lake, just a few miles from Mt. Rushmore. Here are some pics… The long walkway to the Mt Rushmore viewing site is lined with flags from each state in order of their admittance to the union. Territory flags are there too. We walked the loopContinue reading “Rushmore / Crazy Horse”

Stalled in Mitchel, S.D., the girls wanted to swim in the hotel pool and dad just couldn’t say no. We didn’t leave until a little after 11 AM. Noel and I counted the Wall Drug billboards, 93! Having the dogs complicates the trip. It was hot out and Wall, S.D. has no trees, well almostContinue reading “Drive to Horse Thief Lake CG”

We put Indiana, Illinois and Iowa in the rear view mirror. Driving was easy, the girls are good travelers. First day, Wednesday June 15 was from Bloomington to Hidden Hills Vineyard and Winery. A little south of the quad cities it was a convenient place to stop. We set up, bought a bottle of wineContinue reading “The 3 I’s behind us”

3/3/2023. Leaving tomorrow AM. We stayed at the Tiki, north end of SPI. Here’s Peggy and Sammy saying goodbye from the balcony pool side… The pool is heated. Peggy exercised in it nearly every day. And we walked at least 4 miles each day. Birding was the main activity for me, that and beach walkingContinue reading “Saying Goodbye to SPI”

Well after all he is a bird dog. Here he is with us while we bird the SPI birding center… That was Wednesday, 2/21. We tried to go to Sabal Palms yesterday, it was closed but we did see “The Wall”, and Space X … I’ve wondered how the wall was positioned relative to theContinue reading “Birder Sam”

Sammy really is the life of the party at the beach. As soon as he feels sand under his feet he starts prancing, and doing his army crawl. But its when he hits the water that the fun begins. This blog site doesn’t support videos so here are some pics to get the flavor ofContinue reading “Surfer Sam”

Chose this refuge for our first bird outing. Its 110,000 acres and more bird species have been recorded here than any other NWR. Ocelot are present here (we didn’t see one) and occasional bird species considered endemic to Mexico are sometimes sited. We did about 4 miles of hiking. These two are life birds forContinue reading “Birding Laguna Atascosa NWR”