Badlands National Park caught us by surprise. Most of South Dakota is rolling hills and prairie, and out of nowhere the Badlands show up in the middle with impressive geologic formations, fossils, and pinnacles. We took a daytrip from Rapid City. Daytime temps were expected […]
Month: July 2021
National Park Recap: Mount Rushmore National Memorial and Crazy Horse Memorial
Mount Rushmore National Memorial and Crazy Horse Memorial we visited in the same day. We have mixed feelings about Mount Rushmore because of the politics of taking sacred indigenous land and carving white dudes’ faces into it. Mount Rushmore apparently was conceived of, funded, and […]
National Park Recap: Wind Cave National Park
Wind Cave National Park is a very small park with only a few trails. The main attraction is the cave. The visitor center offers a couple different hour to hour and a half long guided tours in the cave. Wind Cave is a dry cave […]
Trailer Upgrade: Dimmer Lights
I get commissions for purchases made through links in this post. We recently noticed several of our OEM dome lights flickering or not coming on right away. We decided to replace the lights in the bunks and over the queen bed, as well as over […]
National Park Recap: Yellowstone and Grand Tetons National Parks
We booked a last minute 3 night stay (then got a consecutive 3 night stay the next day giving us 6 nights) at Grant Village campground which gave us 2 days to drive there from Glacier. So we drove all day to a BLM site […]
National Park Recap: Glacier National Park!
Andrew and I both have been DYING to visit Glacier NP. It has been on our bucket list for a while. Originally we had planned to combine visiting Glacier with a trip into Canada to Banff. Due to the ongoing pandemic, visiting Canada is not […]