RV park internet stinks!

OMG! I hate RV parks Internet service! We had heard how sketchy it is but I had no idea! So, my blog will be intermittent at best until we get a handle on this Internet thing.

I just want to comment here, this blog is to keep friends and family up on our travels but also as a way for us to log/diary our travels. So, this being said, I will need to go back and try to remember a few things, add dates, etc. to get me back up to speed. I have decided to log onto word perfect or an ipad notepad every day so that I don’t have to go back and re create all of this. My memory aint’ what it use to be!

So, on June 15 we finished our driving lessons and headed on our way. They were very helpful and answered many questions though we both think just time and experience will be our best teacher. Needless to say we left feeling a lot better about our knowledge of how to pull this huge rig.  From Sanger TX, we went on to Guthrie, OK on June 15. Oklahoma was way nicer then we thought! Green, pretty but very hot and humid! This photo is from our morning walk before we hit the road. We also went through Moore and saw a bit of the devastation from the last tornado right of f the freeway. Very weird and scary!

We stayed one night in OK and then went on our way to Kansas and spent one night on June 16. My thoughts on Kansas….not very pretty, flat and they don’t sell alcohol on Sunday, even if it is fathers day. Boo!!  And it is still hot. Kansas was flat but a little prettier and they still had weird beer selling rules. I think we could have done a few more days in Kansas and saw Dodge City and a few other places but we were on a mission.

The highlight of our trip to Kansas was the world’s largest ball of twine in Cawker, Kansas on June 17. My personal thought is they could have done much to increase tourism but they didn’t ask me.  I have always wanted to see this large ball of twine after seeing one of my favorite movies, Michael with John Travolta. I was a little disappointed to see that the movie was not really filmed at the actual site but on some Hollywood movie studio.

From Kansas we went to Nebraska on June 18.  Not many thoughts on Nebraska….more flatness and corn fields.  We left quickly and got to South Dakota on June 19 and went to the great Corn Palace! It was really fun and Sean got to remember some great trip memories of having gone here with his mom and three younger siblings.  We spent the night in the middle of nowhere South Dakota that night but did see a nice sunset.

Yesterday, June 20, we got to Wall Drug Store pretty early before the crowds. Again, very cute and I talked Sean into the Jackalope photos plus they had great homemade donuts for a $1 and a $.05 cups of coffee. I am not a big donut person but I gotta tell you, these were delicious! It was probably the 500 hundred signs leading up to it that made them so good.  One sort of sad note….many signs read that if you were a Veteran you got a free donut.  While we were waiting to pay for our donuts and coffee an older gentleman stepped up with his military ID and asked about the free donut. His donut was chocolate iced and the young man informed him that only plain donuts could be given out with that deal. The veteran was disgusted and said forget it and left. I felt really bad about the whole thing. Really, a tablespoon of chocolate icing is deal breaker?!  The poor kid serving him looked so sad about it but I guess he felt he didn’t have a choice.  I wish I had been a quicker thinker and offered to pay for his chocolate donut but I didn’t.

Wall Drug had many shops to look at but we aren’t big shoppers but some of the stuff was fun to look at.  We stayed an hour or so and left.  After a few short hours we finally made it to our destination, Custer South Dakota! It is beautiful here. Lots of pine trees and nice and cool.  We set up the rig to stay for a week. We will see the sights before we head to Gillette Wyoming where we will be attending the Escapade and attending our full timer boot camp.

As a side bar, Sean and I don’t intend to travel like this all the time. We are on “vacation” and doing many miles a day. We are trying to attend a seminar with an organization we belong to call Escappees.  This is a huge gathering of their members and we are hoping to learn much about our new full time RV lifestyle. Eventually we will travel very slowly and also work camp along the way.   We are spending a $100 a day just in fuel!

Today we are off to see Mt. Rushmore!