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We’ve already sung the praises of eastern and central South Dakota. If you’ve read our previous posts, you know that we had a great time in Sioux Falls and the Badlands area. Well, I’m here to tell ya that the western part of the state is even better! We spent three nights camping at Custer …
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A complete recap of our adventures in the Black Hills, Wyoming, and Denver is coming (eventually). But for now, here’s a brief traffic report from Custer State Park in South Dakota.
So far, South Dakota is pretty great. I mean, sure, there’s a lot of nothing here. Grassy prairies stretching as far as the eye can see, without even a tree or ramshackle old barn to break the horizon between land and sky. But we’ve also discovered a lot of something here… and some of that …
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For the part of this trip when we weren’t supposed to be doing much, we sure did a lot. We spent a full week in Iowa, and I do mean a full week. Honestly, at this point I can’t even remember what happened when—so rather than trying to sum it all up chronologically (in what …
On the afternoon that a bunch of white supremacist idiots marched in Virginia and murdered a young woman named Heather Heyer, I found myself crossing from New Mexico into Oklahoma, the state where a smaller group of white supremacist idiots killed 168 people in 1995. From a forensic perspective, there’s no direct connection between these …
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