We have spent the last two weeks in Colorado. We have avoided the eastern half of the state (Denver and the plains) and instead have been exploring the “West Slope.” We tripped over a brochure called Colorado – The Official…
20 gallons is NOT enough!
This is one of those “don’t do what we did” blog posts. We traveled from Douglas, Wyoming to Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Diesel fuel in Colorado is about 50 cents a gallon cheaper than in Wyoming. So it made sense to…
Two more stops in Wyoming
If you recall from the last blog post, we stopped in Gillette to get a new toilet (love it!!!). We took time to see a couple of sights before we left the area. On the town’s tourism website, they list…
Devil’s Tower
Devil’s Tower is this hunk of hard rock sticking up from the Wyoming plains. We were here in 2006 for a quick (1 hour) visit. This time we wanted to do it justice. First, we were able to get into…
Riding a UTV out of Deadwood
Deadwood We prolonged our visit to the Black Hills a few more days because…we wanted to rent a UTV! A UTV is a Utility Task Vehicle. It should be called a Let’s-use-up-fossil-fuels-to-tour-the-Black-Hills-National-Forest Vehicle. There were so many of these around,…
Black Hills of South Dakota
Black Hills At this point, we wanted to sit still for more than 2 days. Plus Labor Day was coming up and you don’t want to be caught without a campground reservation over Labor Day. Thus, we found the Rafter…
Fort Robinson, Nebraska
This is the first of three posts about our recent travels. I tried doing it in one post, but it was too big! Fort Robinson State Park, Nebraska Now that the solar eclipse is past, we don’t have a firm…
Nebraska to the Black Hills of South Dakota
Fort Robinson State Park, Nebraska Now that the solar eclipse is past, we don’t have a firm date to be anywhere until early October. It’s time to wander the country! We left Stapleton in eastern Nebraska and set out for…