Due to various issues both at home and on the road, we have decided to call off the rest of our trip for this year. We will be riding into Rapid City today and leaving for Tallahassee on Greyhound tomorrow morning. When we resume the trip (hopefully in two years if my rich uncle can hurry up and croak - [...]

We woke up in Wall and figred that there was no way we would make hte 70+ miles to keystone in the 20kt headwinds we were experiencing, so we decided to see about getting a ride. The first person Stefan asked was aguy in a big diesel dually pulling a large gooseneck flatbed and going to Custer. It didn’t [...]

We woke up to a beautiful blazing sunrise over the cliffs of the Badlands and I managed to snap a couple of pictures of it before the sun came up completely and ruined the colors with it’s brightness. Sitting around the campstove, I invented a new breakfast food of trail mix boiled in coffee; it was actually quite good. Heading [...]

I am trying an experiment using Stefan’s Centro phone and the folding Bluetooth keyboard that we have carried all this way and have not used yet….primarily because he is usually on his phone talking or texting everyone between NY and SF with FL, OH, and a few other states thrown in; he acts like such a teenager, I Just [...]

Some days just seem to start off on an odd note. I woke up before Stefan (as usual) in Pierre city park and was busy figuring out mileage and the halfway point when these 3 Indians (American Indians, not Indian Indians) came by. Stefan had been so tired the night before that he had decided to sleep on the [...]

We left Fort Thompson late due to wanting to catch the powerhouse tour at the dam. It was cancelled, so we headed on into the DakotaMart for some water (the tap water’s not that great) and more food. We’re getting used to stocking up a few days ahead of time out here because there’s not much else to be [...]

Fri morning, we woke up to howling winds out of the West. Wunderground was calling for 45mph gusts and had been issuing wind warnings the last few days, but called for a easing of the winds the following day and a tailwind for Sat and Sunday, so we decided to call it a day and explore town. Woonsocket is [...]

We woke up at Ed and Edith’s house with the wind still blowing out of the South. I took some time trying to get pictures of their house as it was difficult showing all of their huge antennas….like I told Ed on the rdaio, I’ll probably end up in downtown Sioux Falls before I get the whole shot. Incidentally, [...]

We got Joshua into Sioux falls on Monday night (I’m a little confused on the dates I put on my past journals, so just bear with me while I figure that out - the date listed on this subject is correct regardless of what hte last email said) and onto the Greyhound. Just to prove that nothing is as [...]

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