Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Tried Again.

Thought I'd give the pic upload another try while Chrissy was showering.

And it workS!!!


One of many antelope. Custer State Park.

Freindly Burros.

Giant cows. (Custer State Park)

We bonded and I'm bringing him home in the mini.

Pics



Will be spectacular when they get George W. up there.

Crazy Horse Rocks.

Badlands.

For John!

Monday, August 18, 2008

Too Tired to Blog

But was going to post some better pics.....but this hotel's internet won't let upload anything.

Not sure when we'll get another chance.

Yellowstone tomorrow!

Sunday, August 17, 2008

On the Road...

OK...OK...I get the point. Nobody likes my iPhone pics. Those are the only ones I can send immediately from the road!!

Day one was leaving work at 3:16 and driving to Madison Wisconsin. Not much to see in the dark and driving through Chicago sucks.
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Day 2 we started our drive through the Wisconsin Dells...which was pretty cool, then through Southern Minnesota, and South Dakota to our Hotel in Rapid City.

Yeah it was a loooooooonnnngggg day. But we are here and we have internet Access. So some highlights.

On the road we saw Wisconsin Dells, Weiner Mobiles, Giant Cows on trailers, corn (Minnesota), bison, Antelope, Mule Deer, corn (Minnesota), prairies, corn (Minnesota), Petrified wood, Petrified dave and Christina (when the trailer wheel blew up in front of us), bad lands...I'm sure I missed other things...but last night we crashed with too much for one day stimulis


We also Stopped at the Petrified forest and drove through the Badlands (way cool). Unfortunately it got dark before seeing all the Badlands so we hope to go back tonight or tomorrow, plus go to Wall Drug.


A Pretty girl at the Petrified wood place.


Twilight mini in the Badlands.




Mini in Front of the Spam Museum (we didn't actually go inside).





Weiner Mobile in one of three states. We don't remember which?






Giant Cow. Seems like it SHOULD be in Wisconsin....but I think it was Minnesota. The lovely Christina Deming says Wisc.

Have tons more pics. Too many maybe. So this is all I'm posting today.

We also had a tire indicator light come on in the Mini, so stopped immediately and all the tires were fine....but maybe too much air pressure (did it according to owners manual and bigger loads), so backed them off to 35 lbs and everything is good. Otherwise the car is doing great. I love this car. Doesn't even seem to breath hard at 85 mph for 14 hours.

Tires are a big concern when you don't have a spare. I check them a lot.

We've killed lot's of bugs with the mini. I'm guessing 100 lbs worth on the bonnet. It was clean briefly. Will be finding a car wash today.

Today we are off to Mt Rushmore and Crazy Horse. Maybe back to Badlands or cruise around the Black Hills. We are not anxious to drive a ton.

More to follow....

Friday, August 15, 2008