We left Rapid City, SD after finding the first Starbucks® in memory and enjoying every single pricey drop of beverage. It reminded us of home. And we’re headed in that direction.

Via Rapid City near the western part of

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I love snakes, alligators, crocodiles, and tarantulas . . . as long as there is plate glass between them and me. So, after leaving Mount Rushmore, what better place to spend the afternoon than Reptile Gardens?

Yeah, Earl didn’t think

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Today we went from the ridiculous to the sublime. Only in reverse order. We started the morning by driving to the Crazy Horse Monument and learning all about the largest sculpture in the world. That is, when it is completed.

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On the advice of the proprietress of our cabin home, we headed to Jewel Cave this morning. It is purported to be the second largest underground cave in the world; and it was only thirteen miles away.

I’d been to

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We left Hardin, MT this morning without a single tear and headed eastward. We’d already been to the farthermost Western point of our trip in Yellowstone National Park and were now embarking on new territory in South Dakota. There is

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As a child, I learned about the Battle of Little Bighorn; only it was more commonly referred to as Custer’s Last Stand. Custer himself was portrayed as an American military hero who was unjustly annihilated by a group of several

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Today we drove north from Cody, WY into Montana so that we could visit the Little Bighorn Battlefield. On the way, the first town in Montana we came to was named Belfry, just miles over the border. We looked for

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We’ve been on the road two weeks, with two more to go. Along the way, we’ve learned a tip or two to enhance our travels. I suspect those pioneers who started from St. Louis, Missouri, in the late 1880s said

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