This is the continuation of our Out West 2022 summer vacation. Catch up on our first post here. July 8, 2022 – Wind Cave and Mount Rushmore This is our second time visiting South Dakota as a family and we missed a few activities at Wind Cave and Mount Rushmore last time (check out the last trip here). Wind Cave National Park On our last trip, the elevator at Wind Cave Natl Park was broken, so we didn’t get to visit…
This is the continuation of our Out West 2022 summer vacation. Catch up on our first post here. In this post we leave Yellowstone and head towards South Dakota. July 5, 2022 (Yellowstone to Bighorn National Forest) This was a sad day to leave Yellowstone. Our eventual destination was Custer SP, but 12 hours in the truck wasn’t happening. So a halfway point in Bighorn National Forest was the compromise. We packed up and got on the road by 8…
Hey everyone. This is Leg 4 of our #ptparadsummer2019 trip. In our last post on Leg 3, we spent several days in the Black Hills of South Dakota enjoying all scenery and nearly getting head butted by some bison! (catch up on Leg 2 and Leg 1). On this leg of our vacation we decided to leave the Black Hills a day early to avoid a large storm (and completely failed) and travel to Devil’s Tower National Monument and spend…
Badlands National Park This post covers our second leg of our #ptparadsummer2019 adventure (catch up on Leg 1 here). We spent a few days in and around Badlands National Park. Day 3 – 30 June 2019 – Badlands National Park It rained all night. This will become a theme for a few days unfortunately. The sky was overcast but the temperature was quite comfortable. After some quick breakfast, we got in the truck and drove to the parking lot for…
Part-Time Paradise Summer 2019! What a trip we had. We traveled for 16 days across South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and back through Kansas to home base. This post takes us through the first two days of the trip from home to our campground at Badlands National Park. Day 1 – 28 June 2019 – Kansas City to Missouri National Recreational River to Valentine, Nebraska We had Patty all packed and ready to rock the night before. We set…
