Chamberlain, United States Travel Blogs

Love the Spam
Jul 26, 2008 (3 photos)

... in corn. Supposedly they change the design each ear. (hehehe) We finally made our destination for this leg of the trip. Chamberlain, SD. Not much going on in the hotel. Just a room in which they pride themselves in the soundproofing, and the fact ...

First day
Apr 29, 2008 (10 photos)

     Much of today was driving. While on the road we got a little history as we went. Did you know that the largest mass execution in the U.S. occured in Minnesota? Mankato to be exact. 300 native americans were set to be executed but ...

Day 12 - 510 Miles - Almost there!
Aug 7, 2008 (11 photos)

  We got a late start today as usual. It was for good reason though. I had to get pictures uploaded and update the blog. It was colder today and looked like it was going to rain. As we moved north toward Minnesota it cleared up. Still was a bit ...

Tenting - much still to do
May 14, 2007 (5 photos)

Woke to a very warm morning and headed for the local L&C Centre just off the Interstate. It was more of a rest area but had a few things in it like a full scale mock up of a keelboat. We then went to the local camping site right next to the river to ...

A lovely lazy day in the sun
May 13, 2007

Both had a great nights sleep in this large BW room. Breakfast was OK and then we set off for the nearby Lakota Sioux Centre by foot along the riverside path. It was a lovely walk - the Missouri is dammed 20 miles downstream and is more like a lake at ...

Ride a horse cowboy!!
Jun 9, 2009 (14 photos)

Reluctantly I have started on the trek home. I had one more place on my list to visit and I did that today and the place was Wall Drug a historic (1931 ->) tourist trap. I had fun visiting the 'Drug' store and looking at all of the tourist shops on the ...

Chamberlain, South Dakota
Oct 2, 2006

So we never quite made it to Mount Rushmore tonight. We ended up leaving Chicago a little later than we thought cause of last night's festivities and some sight seeing Sunday afternoon. We ended up driving about 13 hours out of a 16 hour trip to Mount ...

Walleye, anyone?
Sep 7, 2009 (2 photos)

... combined with many strong gusts from semis and rvs. Lots of fun so not a surprise that I chose the first motel in Chamberlain. All eyes in the little office looked up from the weather channel to take in a biker sharing their fishing headquarters. Walleye ...

We reach South Dakota
May 12, 2007 (10 photos)

... in blazing sun. Speaking to the check-out lady it seems that not much happens - "we're pretty laid back". We got to Chamberlain - which is in the middle of South Dakota, the hotel is rather dated but on the river. We managed to get an upgrade to a ...