It's been a while since I've had a chance to post cause we've been hoofing our way back east. Right now we're in a campground near Dayton Ohio, and surprisingly, it has wifi, which we haven't had for a while. How did we get here?
Saturday, July 11, we left Custer, SD after Rick picked up his truck in Rapid City after routine maintenance nearly turned into a disaster. I'll leave that story for another time. Anyway, as we headed east, we stopped and toured the South Dakota Badlands. Now, North Dakota has badlands, Montana has badlands and Wyoming has badlands, but South Dakota's Badlands are THE baddest. We've seen them before, but they still leave you in awe everytime we see them. Took MANY pics and will post probably after we get home this coming Saturday.
After leaving the badlands, we found a campground in Kennebec, SD for the night. In the morning, Sunday, July 12, we were on our way to Bloomington, MN and the Mall of America. Now Barb and I had stopped there on our way west, but Rick and Kathy and the kids had not been there. We found a nice campground about 8 miles from the mall. Samantha's birthday is on Tuesday, July 14 and they decided to do the mall on that day for her birthday. Anyway, Monday, July 13, we visited the Minnesota Zoo, which was just a few blocks from or campground. It is a VERY nice zoo with most exhibits somewhat under cover, and we had a fun day there. (More about that later)
Tuesday, July 14,we went to the Mall of America where the kids rode many of the rides in the amusement park. We had a fun birthday lunch at the Rainforest Cafe and Samantha shopped till we left around 4:00. We drove into the night across Iowa and stayed at a Walmart in Cedar Rapids.
That brings us to today. We travelled across Illinois, Indiana and ended up here near Dayton, Ohio. We didn't make any stops for sight-seeing, just fuel and food. Tomorrow we go to Wright-Patterson Air Force Museum before continuing our trek east tomorrow afternoon. We plan to overnight one more time and be home sometime Saturday.
That's all I have time for, so till I get a chance to update my post, take care, have fun and be safe.
Ron & Barb
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Glad to hear that you weren't lost somewhere. It's been fun and educational following you. I hope you will put the pictures on a CD for us to have. I know that's the closest I'll ever get to Alaska.
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