Friday, July 10, 2009

Wall Drug and beyond

First I need to thank Carmine for instructing me to download Firefox, for some unknown reason, Internet Explorer would not let me into Blogger! Can you believe that!
Anyway, we had a fun filled stop yesterday at Wall Drug. Some many photo ops! Afterward we pushed on to the Black Hills of South Dakota. We are FINALLY here. We are really far from home. Far enough that little squirrels (?) who live under our cabin are of a sub species that we have never seen before, far enough that we have had two nights of severe lightning and hail storms which cause us to respond with extreme alarm while everyone else just shrugs it off.
Our campground is large and sprawling with an endless amount of things for kids to do. There are horse stables, water slides and splash pads, a large bounce pillow, two pools, musical performances and three restaraunts.
There are people here from all over the world. We've met many people who are also on distance road trips. There is a large group of tourists here from Kyoto Japan and a really big group of backpackers from Belgium. I ran into a woman this morning who told me that her family had walked the ground on a license plate hunt and found 37 states. She also high-fived me (she was from Pennsylvania and felt a regional bond???).
We checked out Mt Rushmore this morning briefly and are heading back for the night time lighting ceremony.
In our little cabin cluster we have a very friendly group. Kids are all making friends.

4 comments:

  1. I wonder if Izzy is still as so-so about this trip as she was when it began (I bet not!)
    -El Dee Dee Toe

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  2. Congratulations on making it to Mt. Rushmore!!!! No sight of Green Peace activists lurking about?

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  3. HI IZZY and VINNY I miss you guys and hope your having a great time. I'm so jealous that you went to the SPAM museum, jk.
    Joanna

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  4. Hey gang -loving the pictures of travelogue USA!
    We had DFM at camp this week and the place went wild!this is the first peaceful moment that I've had for a while to tak in the full glory of the blog.
    Brian and I are impressed.We miss you guys though!!
    Tiki

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