Wednesday, Aug. 13th, we headed out to see the Badlands of South Dakota. We stopped at Wall to visit the Wall Drug Store, the #1 roadside attraction in America with a frontier town, 26 retail departments, arcade, animated T-Rex, gem panning and lots more. It was too much to take in all at once so…
Category: 2014
Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming
Sunday, August 10th, we drove the 121 mile round trip to Devils Tower in Wyoming. In 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt created Devils Tower National Monument, the first national monument. It was established as our first national monument because of its scientific and geological importance. Geologists agree that “Devils Tower was formed by an intrusion, the…
Rapid City SD and Sturgis 2014
Saturday, Aug 9th, we drove into Rapid City to explore the town. We did the downtown walking tour of the Presidents. Bronze statues of our nations Presidents line the street corners of downtown Rapid City. Each depicts a president in different poses, emphasizing some unique aspect of their personality. Bob’s favorite was President Reagan wearing…
Mount Rushmore National Memorial and Crazy Horse Memorial
Monday, August 3rd, on our way to Rapid City, South Dakota, to get the Sherpa registered in our new home state. Unfortunately we are arriving the same week as the Sturgis Rally when almost 500,000 motorcyclists will move into Stugis and the surrounding area. We are staying for a week at the Americas Campground and…
Buffalo WY and Bighorn National Forest
Friday August 1st, we left Livingston and headed east to Buffalo, WY, where we are staying at the Indian Campground and RV Park for two nights. We arrived early so we had time to go into Buffalo and walk the Main Street. Buffalo’s Main Street has a curve in the street, most Main Street are…
Yellowstone National Park
July 28th, Monday, we left the Campground St Regis and continued east past Missoula, Butte, and Bozeman along I-90 arriving at Livingston, MT, to the Osen RV park where we are staying for four days. Livingston is a small Western town with a laid-back atmosphere and was the original entrance to Yellowstone National Park. We…
Riding the Route of the Hiawatha
We continued driving east to St Regis, MT, where we stayed at the Campground St Regis for two nights so we could ride our bikes on the Hiawatha Rail-Trail Mountain Bike Trail. Today we left early and drove back to the Lookout Pass Ski Area located just off I-90 on the Idaho-Montana border to pick up…
Grand Coulee Dam
After leaving Salt Spring Island we flew to San Diego to spend time with Kevin, Ericka and our sweet, adorable grand daughter Harper. When we returned to Canada we picked up our Sherpa and headed south back to the States on our way to Rapid City, SD. Our first stop was at the Suncrest Resort…
Chemainus and The Cowichan Valley Trail
On June 30th we took the Vesuvius Ferry over to Crofton and drove south to the town of Lake Cowichan. Here we rode our bikes on the Cowichan Valley Trail all the way to the south end of Shawnigan Lake. The trail follows the gentle grade of the former turn of the century CN railway…
Salt Spring Island
June 21st, Saturday, we left poor Sherpa at the Traveland in Langley to get repaired, and took the ferry over to Salt Spring Island to visit with my sister Sue and Denis at their charming place near Vesuvius on Salt Spring Island. It was like staying in a B&B for three weeks, eating fresh food…