Monthly Archives: July 2016

We delayed our departure this morning to let some of the remnants of last night’s storm pass.  As we headed south along US-89, the clouds which just hours earlier had completely hidden the mountains had begun to lift committed fishermen … Continue reading →

We woke this morning to a sunny day with much cooler temperatures and lower humidity.  Leaving our campground, we spotted another in the ever lengthening list of things which are in a state of disrepair and decay. The landscape became … Continue reading →

Continuing our trek west, I-94 took us past the southern section of Theodore Roosevelt National Park and on into the Badlands and seemingly endless miles of wastelands of western North Dakota and eastern Montana. Eventually these desolate stretches began to … Continue reading →

Leaving Pierre, we resumed our journey on US Route 83 is the fifth longest north-south highway in the country, running 1,885 miles from Brownsville, TX on the Mexican border to the Canadian border, just north of West Hope, North Dakota.  … Continue reading →

Two Hundred and Forty years ago today, a group of men assembled in Philadelphia and jointly adopted a Declaration of Independence from Great Britain, then the most powerful nation on earth.  I was fortunate enough to hear it read on … Continue reading →

We continued our westward trek across I-80 and then north in I-29.  Aside from the predictable silos, barns, and fields of corn and hay, wind turbine farms , While the blades look modest in size when mounted … the actually … Continue reading →