The Badlands Nat'l Park

The scenery here is amazing. Such beauty. We are being treated here at the Badland and on our drives but beautiful wildflowers. They really dress up the already spectacular views. The first day here was rainy, but that was fine as we were so tired from the 4 long driving days to get here. We enjoyed a day to nap!

We had a nice sunny day the second day of our Badlands stay. Les and I hiked a trail to an overlook. See the ladder that was part of our trial? My thighs are going to be talking to me the next couple days.

I then dropped Les off at a trailhead to walk another 2 1/2 miles on a different trail. He enjoyed that trail although it was getting hot by then.

We drove 10 1/2 hours today (Wednesday) to go to our next destination, Yellowstone. We stopped in the town of Grey Bull which is still about 3 hours from our first campground in Yellowstone! Things are so far apart here. But we are seeing some amazing sights. We plan 5 nights in Yellowstone in three differents areas of the park. I'm afraid that we will not have cell or wifi there so we will post again later.

Aug 28 Storm in South Dakota

This only shows a small bit of what we drove into today. It is strange to voluntarily enter a storm looking like that! Thank the good Lord, there was no hail in it. Just a session of strong winds. Once we drove through this front we were back to sunny skys and 80o temps.

We were hoping to camp in a Corp cg or a State park along the Missouri River tonight but most of them are still closed from the bad flooding they had this summer. So we are in a KOA.

Tomorrow we should be in The Badlands and camping in a Nat'l Park cg. We are looking forward to slowing down now and doing some exploring.

Glad to hear that the hurricane did not do what they had predicted to the east. Fair skies ahead for us all?

August 27th Iowa Rest Stop

Here we are at a rest stop in western Iowa. They have wifi and dumping facilities at there RA's. Wow! Little things please us. ;-)

We stopped last night in Elderidge to visit with our friends John and Geralyn Osen. They treated us to a wonderful meal, we then slept in the camper parked in front of their home (they offered their guest room but we declined) and then they fed us a wonderful breakfast before we headed west.

The weather is in the 80's and sunny here in the midwest. Hope there is not bad flooding in PA.

We will post again when we can.

Northwest Adventure

We are off for a fall trip in our new Itasca Navion purchased this summer for trips west. No we are not selling our Pegasus, it is perfect for our FL winters right now and allows us to take our "toys" (kayaks and bikes) in the bed of the truck. But this motorhome will be more compact and powerful for the terrain of the west.

We will try to blog our trip but that is dependent on the access of wifi. Check us out periodically to see if we were able to update.

Our plan: leave Aug 25th, drive to Seattle, WA to visit with Chris and Lori. While there we will join up with them to spend a week on Vancouver Island. Sept 11th head down RT 1 and the Oregon coast to visit with Aaron in Eureka, CA. After leaving Aaron we will continue in the Northwest to work our way home, hoping to hit Yellowstone if the weather there is OK and no snow?? We should return around Oct 10th.

The Good Lord sure has blessed us and I am grateful.