Greetings from Wyoming! It sure is windy here today, we’re a few hours from Yellowstone (in the town of Sheridan) waiting until tomorrow to drive on to the park once the winds die down.
Since our last post, we’ve been to quite a few places. We left the Upper Peninsula and enjoyed driving along Lake Michigan. Once in Wisconsin we saw lots of big fields of corn and soy, and stopped at the lovely Necedah Wildlife Refuge to see birds, butterflies, etc. Then on to Minnesota, which had more corn and soy as well as some large fields of wind turbines. We checked out the wind project in the small town of Grand Meadow, Minnesota. The turbines were pretty ominous when we stood right under them, I was scared! We had lunch in town at the local diner which was packed, and had the pleasure of sharing a table with a local 101-year-old woman and her niece.
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Next came South Dakota, and our first national park of the trip. We made it to Badlands National Park one afternoon, just in time to snag a site at the park campground. We set up house with a view of the amazing rock formations, and enjoyed an evening program presented by park rangers. Next morning we visited the nearby Minuteman Missile National Historic Site, and toured inside a missile launch center that was manned during the Cold War. Thankfully no missiles were ever launched! We then visited the nearby and famous Wall Drug for doughnuts, coffee, ice water, and postcards. We continued our day trip towards Rapid City, SD and noticed that we had a flat tire- luckily we didn’t have the house in tow and we made it safely to a tire shop. A couple hours later we were on our way with 7 new tires…! We visited Crazy Horse Memorial, which is quite an amazing and huge sculpture project honoring the native people that have been killed and displaced from their homelands. Definitely worth a visit. Then we drove by Mount Rushmore, and called it a day.
The next morning we left the Badlands via a beautiful loop drive through the park, with great views of the rocks and some cute prairie dogs. Like the windy day that we entered South Dakota, the forecast was windy once we got into Wyoming. We pushed on to Sheridan, WY and hunkered down for a blustery night. This morning we visited a local dealership and had them do some work on the truck, since hill climbs were heating the truck up yesterday. Hopefully we’ll be in good shape to cross the Bighorn and Rocky Mountains! Now we’re just waiting out the winds, and looking forward to spending some time in Yellowstone soon.
We continue to meet lots of interesting folks along the way, especially with the tiny house as a conversation starter. We even met some folks in Badlands who are considering their own tiny house and had visited our blog before- shoutout to Britney and family! We’ve also had lots of folks snap photos of the house, and we’re hoping that someday we’ll see some of those pics… send them to us via this blog if you’ve seen us on the road!
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