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Sitting in a hotel room at the Dakotah Lodge in Sioux Falls, SD a mere 4 hours from home as our trip comes to a close tomorrow, returning home with a nice three+ day weekend to recover before I have to head back to work. We covered more than 2,500 miles and traveled in Minnesota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Utah over the last 13 days, spending nights in 3 different hotel rooms and 2 different condos. We saw Mount Rushmore, the black hills (freaking gorgeous), a bunch of cool Mountains and stuff, swam in 3 different pools, saw some dinosaurs, a moose, a bunch of antelope, and more cows and horses than you could ever want. We drove through a true ghost town (like, a bunch of buildings and nobody living there), Deadwood (Bill the Kid died there), went through the world's biggest drug store (Wall Drug in Wall, SD) and a town with a sign advertising population 15. I've drank vodka tonics out of a sports bottle at the pool, boxed wine out of a paper cup in a pitch black hotel room while the kids slept, and snuck beer in the garage at a mormon birthday party.

Best of all, my kids got to spend time with their grandparents and spent 9 full days with their cousins who are about the same age and whose mom is their mom's sister and best friend and they loved every minute of it. There were many tears when we left, and my daughter vowed to be pen pals with her cousin while my son wailed "but we can't leave cousin Ike is my best friend!!!!" I dreaded doing this before we started (even though I knew it was something we should do). Yes, there were moments where it got difficult (like when the bridge in Wyoming was washed out and we had to back track 50 miles, or when the road in Wyoming was washed out and we had to go out of our way by about 130 miles), but the kids held on and were troopers despite a couple 12 hour days in the car and it was a fantastic trip all around. We will definitely do it again in a few years. And I'm going to dread every moment leading up to it.

 
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Frostillicus said:
Sitting in a hotel room at the Dakotah Lodge in Sioux Falls, SD a mere 4 hours from home as our trip comes to a close tomorrow, returning home with a nice three+ day weekend to recover before I have to head back to work. We covered more than 2,500 miles and traveled in Minnesota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Utah over the last 13 days, spending nights in 3 different hotel rooms and 2 different condos. We saw Mount Rushmore, the black hills (freaking gorgeous), a bunch of cool Mountains and stuff, swam in 3 different pools, saw some dinosaurs, a moose, a bunch of antelope, and more cows and horses than you could ever want. We drove through a true ghost town (like, a bunch of buildings and nobody living there), Deadwood (Bill the Kid died there), went through the world's biggest drug store (Wall Drug in Wall, SD) and a town with a sign advertising population 15. I've drank vodka tonics out of a sports bottle at the pool, boxed wine out of a paper cup in a pitch black hotel room while the kids slept, and snuck beer in the garage at a mormon birthday party.

Best of all, my kids got to spend time with their grandparents and spent 9 full days with their cousins who are about the same age and whose mom is their mom's sister and best friend and they loved every minute of it. There were many tears when we left, and my daughter vowed to be pen pals with her cousin while my son wailed "but we can't leave cousin Ike is my best friend!!!!" I dreaded doing this before we started (even though I knew it was something we should do). Yes, there were moments where it got difficult (like when the bridge in Wyoming was washed out and we had to back track 50 miles, or when the road in Wyoming was washed out and we had to go out of our way by about 130 miles), but the kids held on and were troopers despite a couple 12 hour days in the car and it was a fantastic trip all around. We will definitely do it again in a few years. And I'm going to dread every moment leading up to it.
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Ok.

 
Did you go to the Corn Palace? In one of the Dakotas, IIRC.

Fantastic write up, btw. We're going to ocean city, md in a couple weeks for a similar but far less interesting trip. Wild horses at Assateaque and wild crankheads at OC.

 
Aaron Rudnicki said:
Isn't Yellowstone in Wyoming? Seemed pretty awesome to me.
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That's true. Grand Tetons, Jackson, prairie dogs, Brokeback. Some quality stuff no other state has. But I-80 cutting left to right or right to left is teh utmost suck. Spent a night in Kemmerer, WY once. Felt like I was being live blogged in a Stephen King novel.

 
General Malaise said:
Aaron Rudnicki said:
Isn't Yellowstone in Wyoming? Seemed pretty awesome to me.
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That's true. Grand Tetons, Jackson, prairie dogs, Brokeback. Some quality stuff no other state has. But I-80 cutting left to right or right to left is teh utmost suck. Spent a night in Kemmerer, WY once. Felt like I was being live blogged in a Stephen King novel.
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not sure there's a more awful, boring state to drive through than South Dakota or Nebraska.

 
Aaron Rudnicki said:
General Malaise said:
Aaron Rudnicki said:
Isn't Yellowstone in Wyoming? Seemed pretty awesome to me.
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That's true. Grand Tetons, Jackson, prairie dogs, Brokeback. Some quality stuff no other state has. But I-80 cutting left to right or right to left is teh utmost suck. Spent a night in Kemmerer, WY once. Felt like I was being live blogged in a Stephen King novel.
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not sure there's a more awful, boring state to drive through than South Dakota or Nebraska.
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Never been through them but Ohio Is pretty terrible, especially now that Big Butter Jesus burned down

 
Aaron Rudnicki said:
General Malaise said:
Aaron Rudnicki said:
Isn't Yellowstone in Wyoming? Seemed pretty awesome to me.
Click to expand...
That's true. Grand Tetons, Jackson, prairie dogs, Brokeback. Some quality stuff no other state has. But I-80 cutting left to right or right to left is teh utmost suck. Spent a night in Kemmerer, WY once. Felt like I was being live blogged in a Stephen King novel.
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not sure there's a more awful, boring state to drive through than South Dakota or Nebraska.
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North Dakota is pretty awful, though I have never sampled South Dakota or Nebraska.

 
Nebraska, S Dakota and 2/3 of Colorado are absolutely flat wastelands. We drove from Mpls to CO to go skiing. 12.5 of the 14 hours looked like this...

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mr roboto said:
Nebraska, S Dakota and 2/3 of Colorado are absolutely flat wastelands. We drove from Mpls to CO to go skiing. 12.5 of the 14 hours looked like this...

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Did the Nebraska(and some of Kansas) portion of that trip once on a cross country trip from to CA. I think I could have straight up fallen asleep at the wheel and the car would have made it through the dust bowl on its own. Don't recall having to move at all.

 
Aaron Rudnicki said:
General Malaise said:
Aaron Rudnicki said:
Isn't Yellowstone in Wyoming? Seemed pretty awesome to me.
Click to expand...
That's true. Grand Tetons, Jackson, prairie dogs, Brokeback. Some quality stuff no other state has. But I-80 cutting left to right or right to left is teh utmost suck. Spent a night in Kemmerer, WY once. Felt like I was being live blogged in a Stephen King novel.
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not sure there's a more awful, boring state to drive through than South Dakota or Nebraska.
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Bore off?

 
Dan Lambskin said:
Aaron Rudnicki said:
General Malaise said:
Aaron Rudnicki said:
Isn't Yellowstone in Wyoming? Seemed pretty awesome to me.
Click to expand...
That's true. Grand Tetons, Jackson, prairie dogs, Brokeback. Some quality stuff no other state has. But I-80 cutting left to right or right to left is teh utmost suck. Spent a night in Kemmerer, WY once. Felt like I was being live blogged in a Stephen King novel.
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not sure there's a more awful, boring state to drive through than South Dakota or Nebraska.
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Never been through them but Ohio Is pretty terrible, especially now that Big Butter Jesus burned down
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:tipsgrail:

 
I've been through Ohio numerous times. No trip to Hollywood, but at least there's trees and some hills and some green. That's better than flat, brown desolation where nothingness is pervasive.

 
So this is happening 3 blocks down from us:

An Upper West Side co-op board, in true Upper West Side co-op board fashion, has informed residents that it is going to start requiring dogs of unknown breed to take a DNA test, DNAinfo reports (really living up to their name), so that they may be kicked out of the building if they are discovered to be made up of more than 50 percent of something undesirable. The building's entire list of 27 banned breeds is not available, but apparently ranges "from large dogs like St. Bernards and German shepherds to medium-sized pooches like pit bulls and basset hounds to toy breeds like a shih tzu." Dogs can only get out of the testing if their owner is able to provide a letter from a veterinarian confirming what breed the dog is.
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Chicago to Louisville is 250

Wyoming is 400 miles, east to west

Nebraska is 450 miles, east to west

I10,'through Texas is 880

maybe Indiana isn't so bad

 
Limp Ditka said:
Chicago to Louisville is 250

Wyoming is 400 miles, east to west

Nebraska is 450 miles, east to west

I10,'through Texas is 880

maybe Indiana isn't so bad
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I went to school in Jackson, MS and traveled back to Dallas numerous times on I-20. It was a straight shot. Northern Louisiana sucks pretty bad, but you could roll into a drive-thru Daiquiri hut upon entering the state, get a giant beverage to go in a huge styrofoam cup and chew through the state in less than 3 hours, right to left.

And yes, I know that was irresponsible, but damn it...so is serving booze off the highway in a drive-thru. Twas different then.

 
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