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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”

*South Padre Island We checked the weather in the AM, thunderstorms and even possible tornados on our route so we chose to drive north, through St Louis then south to avoid them. Added 1.5 hrs. Roadfood.com is our go to site for out of the way local places, this was our first roadfood meal ofContinue reading “Driving To SPI* 02/15/2023 to 02/17/2023”

Sunday and Monday, July 24 and 25. Ate lunch with Will and Colleen at the Buttery, in south Boston, loaded up Will’s bike and hit the road, with no idea where we would sleep. Got as far as Middletown, NY. Boondocked in a Sam’s/Loews parking lot. The only noteworthy encounter was a stop for foodContinue reading “Home”

July 23, 2022 Woke up in the Walmart parking lot, started the day with a visit to a Tim Horton’s then to the dog park, and still got to The Cat by 8:00 AM. Although we arrived fairly early we were the very last vehicle allowed to drive on. But they had us back offContinue reading “Back to the States”