Travel Blogs from Interior, United States
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PPP (People Taking Pictures of Pictures)
Today was a big day. In the morning,we took a look at some of the places that Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote about. I liked the house that Pa built the best. It was in really good condition considering it was 125 years old. Then we drove to Mitchell SD to ...
Driving Day
... it to the Badlands. It was so cool at night because it looked like we were on Mars or something! We found a campsite in Interior which was a nice type of ranch and most importantly had warm showers :] We wish we could've stayed longer because ...
A Stay in the Badlands
The Badlands are an interesting place; it reminds me of the Grand Canyon in a way. The northern part appears to have larger, taller buttes while the southern side has mostly small buttes. Stripes of orange run across the middle of the buttes. We arrived ...
Day 3 - Whew! What a day . . .
Today we crossed the great state of Minnesota. There was more corn to see today but this became less and less as we headed west. One thing that did strike us was the constant strong wind and this was taken advantage of by the erecting of many wind ...
Badlands
The Badlands were awesome! Every direction you looked there was an amazing view and it seemed like it just kept on going. When we got into Badlands National Park, we got out and climbed some of the cliffs. From far away they look like solid rock but ...
Day 5 - Hey, this aint so bad
Since we had no car it was decided today would be a mental health day and we would do absolutely nothing. So, that's what we did. We sat in and around the pool, I worked on my sunburn (Wendi told to goop up my upper body but I thought that the shade ...
Day 4 - Hey Wendi, I hope you like the Badlands
As planned we are here in the Badlands for our second day. As not planned - the fuel pump in the van has packed up. It happened just as Wendi was pulling out of the information centre parking lot. We were ascending a small hill on the way to the ...
Badlands National Park
... made with fried indian bread and buffalo meat - yum! Other than the park there really is NOTHING here. The "town" of Interior consists of one gas station, 2 bars and an Indian owned small grocery/liquor store.. It is peaceful for ...
Badlands National Park
Before entering the park we hat a short stop at the Minuteman Missle National Historic Site. These facility used to controll 150 minuteman missles, that protected the US from the bad Soviet Uninon. Flying over the northpole these missles could reach ...
A good evening at Badlands
Today brought a little bit of clouds and rain, but overall it was a good driving day. I logged about 660 miles (almost all interstate). I set up my tent, and drove to the Cedar Pass Lodge to find WiFi. Right now, it's 6:15pm ...
Sturgis, etc.
I stayed 2 nights in a campground outside of Badlands Nat'l Park. The ride here was my first departure from I 80. Rode north through the Sandhills, which was beautiful - rolling hills of grassland, like a huge seascape. I'll upload pics ...
Bad Lands
... way we were please we went. Onward to the badlands,we set up camp at a very nice campground in the small town of Interior, there is a national park campground nearby, which looked real nice, but we wanted internet to plan our next few days. I will let ...
Mt. Rushmore on the 4th
... the monument at 1:00p.m., finally heading East toward home (in 8 days!) and toward our destination for the evening, Interior, South Dakota, via Badlands National Park. Badlands National Park was about another two hours from Mt. Rushmore. Originally, I ...
Day 6 The Van Gets Fixed
Happy Days!! I phoned the shop in Wall and they had a fuel pump in for us. Now came the scary part. We had to drive the van with a dodgey fuel pump with a history of stalling on inclines 30 to the shop. No big deal but the road to the smooth and level ...
So good to finally make it to the Badlands
... wasn't any protection from it, and the sun woke me up good and early. I packed up and headed towards the town of Interior, which I thought was real far away but turns out it was only 15 miles, pleasant surprise. It was simply amazing to slowly ...
Doomsday at the Push of a Button???
... enough we found out that only half of the missiles have been deactivated over the years. There are still 450 active missile sites in the states in region we are in. Kind of makes you think. This was a busy day as you will see by the rest of the entries ...
Badlands National Park
On our drive to the Badlands we stopped at Wall SD. Now Wall was a little hole in the wall town. In December 1931 Dorothy and Ted Hustead bought the only drugstore in this little town. They ...
Badlands
We got up fairly early but didn't have as much on the agenda. We took down camp, then went to Wall Drug. We were going to get a homemade donut but they were cake donuts, yuck! We went to look at the "backyard" which included an animated ...
Rapid City - Wall - the Badlands
The next day we headed to the Badlands, but we made a few stops before we headed out of town. We first visited the alpine slide again...I am getting good at this now. Then we went to Old MacDonald's farm. It was a nice little petting zoo. They had ...
Bad Weather in the Badlands
Spent the majority of the last two days in the Badlands of South Dakota. It started raining as we broke camp on the Missouri. We'd just packed everything up as the first drops fell. We got back on the road around 10, and headed west on ...
What is the noise?
Ben was awakened by a strange grinding noise at 6:45a.m. It appears to be a 7 year old guest riding a tike back in forth in front of his window. That was made up for by a supper awesome breakfast. We had whole wheat blueberry pancakes, ...
Beautiful Falls and the Beginning of the Bandlands
... corn. My new goal for the trip: to find two cool cowboy hats, and an huge amber ring. 10:45pm, Mountain Time. Interior, SD We stopped at a great rest area along I-90, overlooking the Missouri River. It us a beautiful view and landscape! I ...
The Great Burro Search
We arrived at the Circle View Ranch, our B and B for the night, around 7:30p.m. We turned into the long driveway that went straight up a Butte and Jacob wondered aloud, "Will the van make it up that hill?" John assured him that it would but I ...
Newton, Iowa to Interior, SD
We got off to a good start this morning. Left camp at 6:15 which was about 1.5 hours ahead of schedule. The kids were able to move to their seats still in PJs and wedge themselves in and go right back to sleep. We woke them up about 4 hrs later as we got ...
Last day in the Badlands
Today was my last day in the Badlands, and I decided to cap off this park visit with a nice long hike. I took the Castle/Medicine Root trail, which is about 7 miles through fairly flat terrain. While it is relatively flat and therefore lacks ...
Exploring the badlands!
... drop off the RV and have lucnh before heading out to explore. The campground is nice but in the middle of nowhere!. The town, Interior, SD has a population of 67!. I have more family members than that! There is no cell service but thankfully there is ...
Badlands and Mt Rushmore
Badlands & Mt Rushmore After leaving Jerry's we drove all day and arrived at our campsite in Interiior SD by 7 pm. Within 20 minutes I had dinner on the table - tuna, rice and tomato casserole made in the electric skillet. We declined the 7 o'clock ...
"Dont orderme about I'ma Outlaw From the Badlands"
The Badlands are beautiful beyond words. We rolled into the park and set-up our camping gear. Two members remembered to pack their poles, but no tent, I tried hard not to laugh. After the group was squared away we mosey on over to the ...
Hanging in the Badlands
... through an impressive lightning storm, winding through the park down rte 240 i take a left onto rte 44 towards the town of interior, i pull into the parking lot of the budget host inn and continue to watch the lightning strike off in the distance before ...
Minnesota, South Dakota, and the Badlands.
The Econo Lodge wasn't classy by any means, but I slept good through the night and got going around eight in the morning. I had heard that there was a nice view of the town from a bluff nearby. I found it and drove to the top. ...
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