We'll be staying put here for the next couple days…some work, some exploring of the Black Hills, and some giving of thanks. For our Thanksgiving dinner we're planning a nice menu: a duck (smoked on the Traeger), sauteed green beans, savory bread pudding with italian sausage and mushrooms, and pumpkin…
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Yesterday, as we were leaving the Badlands, we pulled over at a viewpoint so Kevin could stress me out for five solid minutes while he flew the hexacopter and camera out over some of the craziest, jaggiest parts of the Badlands…the part where if there's any malfunction and the thing…
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This morning before we left our quiet spot in the completely empty campground in the Badlands National Park, we drove over to the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site to get a tour of their Delta-01 launch control facility. (Only 6 people can take the tour at a time because that's…
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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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We seem to be continuing the barbeque smackdown. Last night we went over to Oklahoma Joe's. Oklahoma Joe's is a barbeque joint inside a gas station in Kansas City, KS on the corner of Mission and 47th. It's not quite as gritty as it sounds, though it really is a…
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