We were too tired to do the service last night, and also way too far behind in the posts. We opted for the less physically taxing task of choosing and uploading images, writing the final day’s post, and putting images into old posts. It took a while, but finally, finally we were caught up. Dachary […]
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Day 12 – Mt. Rushmore, SD to Mitchell, SD
The Badlands awaited us, along with the burning sun. Determined to avoid her killing rays, we got up at five… much to the annoyance of the tent dweller in the next space, I’m sure. On the road at 6:30 through the touristy town of Keystone. No breakfast for us, as everything was still closed. In […]
Continue ReadingDay 11 – Wheatland, WY to Keystone, SD
In which we stumble across soe American history, and Dachary is uninspired by a national monument.
Continue ReadingDay 10 – Lake granby, CO to Wheatland, WY
The original plan was to leave Lake Granby, and the rest of the F650.com folks on Sunday, but then we realized that we’d set ourselves up to do 420 miles to the next campsite, just around the corner from Mt. Rushmore. On the F650s, without dogs, that wouldn’t be a problem, but the Ural is […]
Continue ReadingDay 9 – Lake Granby, Colorado to Lake Granby, Colorado
In which we ride for pleasure, not miles.
Continue ReadingDay 8 – Denver, Colorado to Lake Granby, Colorado
In which we finally arrive at our Colorado destination!
Continue ReadingDay 7 – Colby, KS to Denver, CO
The day started with a bit of extra sleep and some decent complimentary hotel breakfast of eggs, sausage, biscuits, and gravy. When I went out to walk the dogs it was eighty-something, but there was a cool moisture in the air. It was nice, almost refreshing. We got on the road at 8:30, somewhat later […]
Continue ReadingDay 6 – Holton, KS to Colby, KS
Yesterday involved entirely too much hair-dryer action. Today we would get up even earlier to avoid it. So, we got up at 4:45 which is actually 3:45 in our home time-zone, which we left less than a week ago. As I write this it’s 6:20 PM and Dachary and I just forced ourselves up from […]
Continue ReadingDay 5 – Keokuk, Iowa to Holton, KS
We adhered to our plan and got up at 5AM – Kay walked the dogs before it was even light outside, while I worked on packing stuff up. (Kay tends to wander around inefficiently when he’s doing an open-ended thing like packing, so it just works out better if he has a series of tasks, […]
Continue ReadingDay 4 – Anderson, IN to Keokuk, IA
Unsurprisingly, we got off to a late start. Kay was futzing with the Internet in the morning, and I was, too, and my grandpa showed up shortly before 8AM to see us off. We were still packing and I was still dealing with Internet stuff, so I sent Kay down to check on the “continental […]
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