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Driving out of the Badlands on Sage Creek Road there were fields of grasshoppers everywhere…..sounding like rocks hitting the car. Read more →

Containing the world’s richest Oligocene epoch fossil beds, dating 37-28 million years old, the evolutionary stories of mammals such as the horse and rhinoceros arise from the 244,000 acres of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires. Bison, bighorn sheep, endangered black-footed ferrets, and swift fox roam one of the largest, protected mixed-grass prairies in the United States. Read more →

Eating breakfast in Mitchell SD. Today's agenda: Badlands, Black Hills, and Deadwood. Read more →

About 20 miles after we crossed into Minnesota, the low fuel chime went off. It was super remote (making Iowa look normal). If we flipped around at the next exit, the nearest gas station was about 16miles behind us…and if we went on, the next one was about 26miles ahead. We decided not to turn back…and, on fumes, made it… Read more →

The American Heartland….heart of the corn belt. Beautiful day for a LONG drive. Read more →

Casey's general store :) Read more →

Woke up at 7:00 this morning and went onto the University of Illinois campus for a workout. Gates were locked, but we made it inside. By 9 ‘o’clock the surrounding fields were filled with tennis practice and an Illinois/Michigan baseball scrimmage. Back on the road now, heading for South Dakota & the Badlands. But first, we’re gonna look at corn… Read more →

Route 74 Indiana/Illinois border…field fog. 1 more hour to go to total 13.Hoping Murphey's is still surving burgers when we arrive for the night in Champaign,IL.Crushing fireflies on the windshield. Read more →