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Travel Stats for Tuesday/Wednesday
Continuing this week’s whirlwind travelogue… Time in Missouri with family for Dad Cook’s funeral: not quite 21 hours. Departed Missouri Military Cemetery at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri: 1:45 p.m. CDT on Tuesday. Hours driven: 27.5 Hours slept: 3.5 Miles driven: 1,783 miles [I drove twice coming home for a total of about 200 miles while Lyle slept a little more.…
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Travel Stats for Monday
Departed Sioux Falls, South Dakota: 7:30 a.m. CDT Hours driven: 9.5 Miles driven: 592 Average speed: 62.3 mph Fuel mileage: 35.2 mpg States: South Dakota, Iowa, Missouri (also within spitting distance of Nebraska and Kansas) Time zones: 1 Wildlife spotted: rabbit… cows, horses… oh, wait! Those aren’t wildlife. Never mind. Weather: rain, sunshine Audio book: continuing The Racketeer until the battery…
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Travel Stats for Sunday
Here’s a map of our route for the first part of this week. And because these are the kinds of stats Lyle likes to have a record of… Departed Post Falls, Idaho: 9:00 p.m. PDT Hours driven: 18 Hours slept: 4 Miles driven: 1,200 Average speed (not counting sleep time): 66.7 mph Fuel (not gas) mileage: 34.8 mpg States: Idaho,…
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It’s Snowing…
…near Livingston, Montana. Just flurries. The road is clear and dry. Making good time.
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On the Road Again
My travel season is getting ready to ramp up with several homeschool convention trips in the next two months. Additionally, we have an extra, unexpected trip this week. My father-in-law passed away, so we are getting ready to make a very fast trip to Missouri for the funeral. As usual, I’ll be blogging about our travels along the way, but…
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Sea, Sand, and Sky
We stayed at Turtle Rock RV Park. We practically had the beach to ourselves. Becky turning cartwheels on the soft sand. “Log Henge” constructed by our kids. Rainbow — Monday morning. Sunset — Tuesday evening. Sunset — Wednesday evening. Sunset — Thursday evening.
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Wiener Roast on the Beach
Something we’ve always wanted to do is build a campfire on the beach. The weather was really nice in the middle of the week, so I suggested we take an armful of firewood down to the beach one evening to have a wiener roast and watch the sunset. The wind was pretty brisk, so the kids dug a hole in…
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Redwood Forests
It’s rainy and damp today here on the coast. It’s supposed to clear off tomorrow, I think. Rather than spending the day cooped up in the trailer, we decided to drive south about 50 miles to see the redwoods of northern California. As always, the trees are majestic and beautiful. I loved driving through the misty forests in the off-season.…
