the roadtrip

• yellowstone national park, wy June 20, 2021
  Like Yellowstone KOA, Yellowstone National Park is absolutely beautiful and absolutely commercial. It’s hard to blame Wyoming for taking advantage to help their GNP, however, we are simply put off by the commercialization of it all. To help the Wyoming and Yellowstone economy we did buy ice cream, cowboy hats, and paid our yearly fee […]
• buffalo, wy June 19, 2021
  We drove through Deadwood, following a challenged SUV from Oklahoma just for fun. The Buffalo KOA is kinda dusty, not as nice as usual, really just a stop over to Yellowstone. Good shower and laundry. Honestly, we’re tired of the road and are longing our own beds. Devil’s Tower was cool, but again ___ America’s […]
• mount rushmore, sd June 18, 2021
  So there’s no way to clean this up. What we saw at Mt Rushmore was “A lot of ___ people all lining up for ice cream.” I’m ashamed to single out groups for shaming, I can’t even write the word I’m so ashamed. However, there are groups of people who visit places like this to […]
• bismarck, nd June 17, 2021
  WW”M CERORTH Dakota is a lovely place, however if you’re just driving through on the way to somewhere else, be prepared to see a whole lot of nothing. We did have in interesting encounter at a gas station where the worker there lamented having to wear a mask because she wasn’t vaccinated. “I don’t like […]
• minneapolis, mn June 16, 2021
  Today was a travel day with a sobering stop in Minneapolis to visit and pay our respects to George Floyd, the man murdered by police officer Derrick Chauvin. The site is filled with messages of love and respect and justice. It was a sad and ironically also hopeful in a way. We’re staying at a […]
• madison, wi June 15, 2021
  Home to the Badgers, UW Madison turned out to be an awesome stop and has also made the will-apply cut. We took a campus tour with enthusiastic students leaders who told us a bit about the history and goings on. The campus is pretty much in the city center and while Madison has a population […]
• stevens point, wi June 14, 2021
  Wisconsin is known for Cheese, Beer, and Liquor, as the sign said, and for us it is a focus of the trip. Not for beer and liquor, but for cheese and colleges and a visit to our good friends in Stevens Point, Mark and Holly. UW Milwaukee was the first visit and it is a […]
• chicago, il June 14, 2021
  Ok, Chicago, IL. There is only one reason to go to Chicago and that’s to visit Wrigley Field, home of the Cubs of the NL MLB. Many would argue it is baseball’s Mecca and we cannot argue. Finghin remarked that he had never felt as much passion from a crowd as the fans at Wrigley, […]
• columbus, oh June 11, 2021
  The turnaround point! Halfway through our trip we land at my niece Julie’s house, home to her husband Bill, my sister Sherry, Julie’s granddaughter’s Kayleigh and Kyleigh, and 5 dogs and 6 cats (5 kittens!). What a busy place! Julie organized a BBQ where my nephew’s Lonnie and Pat and niece Shannon joined along with […]
• casey, il June 10, 2021
  We decided not to stay in St Louis but we still saw the Mississippi River, and instead headed to a KOA in Casey, IL where we met Antonina, Papu, and her son Serge, the owb=wers of the KOA. Antonina is from Ukraine and Finghin was able to practice some Russian with here and she said […]