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…

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,…

… on the South Dakota prairie. Still driving…

…near Livingston, Montana. Just flurries. The road is clear and dry. Making good time.

Breakfast time! Today's destination: Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

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…

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…

 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.…

In the summer when we came to Oregon we weren’t able to stop at Multnomah Falls because the parking lot was full. That was disappointing, but probably just as well, because no doubt the observation deck and trail was as crowded as the parking lot. Yesterday when we stopped we practically had the whole place to ourselves. It was a…