We walked over to the Visitor Center to get our National Park Pass this morning and Kevin asked the park ranger which hikes were good. The park ranger said, "I don't know. I'm not much of a hiker." That was it. He pushed her a little bit with more questions…
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Kevin got a nice shot of our surroundings this morning with the HexacopterCam. (Click image to enlarge…we're on the right) (Posted by Laura)
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Look where we woke up this morning! Lovely, isn't it? We went for a short drive up to the pass and snapped a few photos while the sun was still early and low. This is looking back down toward the campground: When we got in last night we were the…
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We got here right around sunset…just enough light to see how incredibly cool this place is going to look tomorrow. Our drive was easy (a bit long) and uneventful today from Le Mars, Iowa, to Luverne, Minnesota, and onto the Badlands National Park in South Dakota. Lots of this: What…
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Yesterday we drove from Kansas City to a little town called Le Mars, Iowa, just a ways past Sioux City. I chose this town because it was (1) the right amount of driving hours down the road from where we started and (2) they had a county park campground that…
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Today was museum day. We started at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. This is a fantastic museum that needs more than the hour and a half we were able to give it…but we do what we can do. We of course couldn't miss Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen's Shuttlecocks…
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This morning we got up early and worked until about 11:30am and then left St. Louis and headed for Kansas City (KS/MO). We stopped at a rest stop about halfway through the drive and made some lunch (Tom Yum soup with mushrooms, chicken, cilantro, lime, jalapeno), worked for a bit,…
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This afternoon's exploration brought to you by a late lunch at The Shaved Duck. We walked in the front door and the guy at the bar said "You just made it. The kitchen stops serving in 4 minutes." Whew! We found this place on Yelp and it had great reviews…
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We've successfully (accidentally, on both accounts) Nevada'd* New Mexico and Arkansas. We'll get there. * Nevada'd: Surrounding an unvisited state with visited states. Term c/o Tiffani and Deke. Also, we were wondering today (out loud) why Missouri is called the "show me" state. Kevin said "What's the deal? Don't they…
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