The Black Hills / Sturgis, Deadwood, Spearfish & Devils Tower
The Black Hills are just an incredible panorama of high plains, stunning canyons, significant historical landmarks, and small towns. Yesterday’s post covered some of the sights south of Rapid City. Today, I want to write about some of the areas to the north. If you’re heading west, you’ll hit them in this order: Sturgis, Deadwood, [...]
Continue ReadingThe Black Hills / Custer State Park
A short drive west of Badlands National Park is the Black Hills National Forest. Sprawling over 1.25 million acres, the Black Hills are so named for the color of the Forest’s Ponderosa Pines when seen from a distance. As a bit of trivia, within the forest is Harney Peak – and at about 7,200 feet, [...]
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Sioux Falls and The Badlands
As we drove across the border from Minnesota to South Dakota, I entered unchartered territory. For the first time since Amy and I started road tripping I was in a state that I never set foot in before. Not to worry, the “Welcome to South Dakota” sign made me feel at home. Sioux Falls Sioux [...]
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A Dog Friendly Lakewalk in Duluth, MN
We first visited Duluth in August 2008. Two weeks ago, we again found ourselves in the city. We put ourselves on hold for a few days because the weather was blessedly cool, we needed to add pet friendly content to the web site, and the laundry bag was bursting at the seams. And I am [...]
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Doggone Good Time in Charlevoix, Michigan
It all started on Twitter. One day I got a tweet from @K9cusine asking if we were going to be traveling through northern Michigan. If so, we were welcome to visit the Holloway family at their summer hideout in Charlevoix. Well, when you don’t have a plan you can travel anywhere you want. So a [...]
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Picture Postcard Door County
As I wrote on Tuesday, we spent the first half of our 4th of July weekend in Milwaukee. The second half was spent in Door County. Imagine the state of Wisconsin as a left-handed mitten – Door County would be the thumb. We left Milwaukee on Interstate 43 and then cut over to Route 42 [...]
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