We woke up early, mostly because we are still on East Coast time, and were on the road before 8AM. The general plan for the day was to do the loop for the Badlands, stop in Wall and get ice cream at Wall Drug, get back on the loop, see the bison, stop at the ghost town of Scenic, and return to the Cedar Pass Campground. Sounds complicated, but it’s just driving a loop, half of which is on dirt roads. While I cleaned the front window of bug remains, Continue reading
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Grasslands to the Badlands
Our RV on the Prarie
We slept in because we could, for we reached the portion of the trip where all pressure is off. We have no schedule, no deadlines, no one to see, until we get word from my daughter that they are settled in, and ready for visiting grandparents. We have, at this time, only potential destinations in a limited time, but the duration is almost two months. As a strange twist, we didn’t realize until the end of the day that we had crossed into Mountain Time Zone and were actually an hour ahead. Early without realizing it, what a concept! Continue reading
St Louis to Omaha
It was a very tiring night at Horseshoe Lake Campground. Apparently the Illinois side of the river has become the rail center St Louis always hoped that it would be, and the trains on the nearby freight rail line wanted you to know it. I have always lived in close proximity to trains and am accustomed to train horns, but the engineers hereabouts really like to sound that horn, to the tune of six or eight seconds, which may not sound like too long. Try making your own horn noise for eight seconds repeatedly and you’ll have a hint of what we didn’t sleep through. Continue reading
St Louis
The fields in western Indiana show signs of spring, planting and new growth, compared to the western Ohio and Eastern Indiana fields. It was definitely spring in the east, and it’s definitely full blown summer in western Indiana. It was warm and buggy in the evening, but when we went to bed, we opened up the RV and slept quite comfortably. We slept so comfortably that we overslept. There were no birds chirping, no traffic noise, no people, no airplanes overhead, no whispering trees, no nothing. I think that it’s one of the quietest places that we’ve ever stayed. Continue reading
Motor Speedway and Campgrounds
It was a great morning, but a little cool. During the night I turned on the heater to warm the place up a bit. Having electricity is nice. After a quick breakfast of bananas and cereal and coffee and some organization, we were off. The dumps station was a surprise, as all the hardware there was either broken or leaked. During the process, I discovered that the tube for the dump hose, the new one, had its end sheared off during my exit from the Pittsburgh area. The hose can’t fall out of the sheared end, so all will be well until it’s replaced when the back is repaired. Continue reading