Archive for June, 2004
Wednesday, June 30th, 2004
Rapid City, SD – Storybook Island
3275 miles Cool park. Wish it were smaller. I’m tired.
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Wednesday, June 30th, 2004
Rapid City, SD – Storybook Island
3275 miles Cool park. Wish we had one.
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Tuesday, June 29th, 2004
I-90, SD – Rest Stop
3590 miles Bug are so thick it sounds like rain. Should have packed a squegee.
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Tuesday, June 29th, 2004
BFE, SD – Hwy 83
3446 miles There are definate advatanges of getting off the interstate now and then. More scenic, more leisurely, more disruptive road construction.
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Tuesday, June 29th, 2004
Strasburg, ND – Passing Thru
3376 miles Birthplace of Lawrence Welk
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Tuesday, June 29th, 2004
Linton, ND – Gas Station
3368 miles They dispensed glow in the dark condoms in the rest room even farmers like to kink it up now and again (or maybe it’s to confuse the sheep). The slogan was “Slip it on and watch the glow grow and grow”. Apart from the logistics of such an operation, it’s a pretty catchy [...]
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Tuesday, June 29th, 2004
Crookston. MN – Heading Out
3071 miles Standard leaving protocol. We always leave with more stuff that we came with, causing the logistics engineer (me) a headache. This time we’re heading back with a great kitchen table we found at Big Lots in Grand Forks. Yes, we’re travelling another 2000 miles with 2 adults, 2 kids, all our gear and [...]
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Monday, June 28th, 2004
Grand Forks, ND
3036 miles Behold the power of marketing. Most people don’t hesitate to eat a Slim Jim, the tasty meatish travel food. But buy a big package of the generically named and considerably cheaper “beef and pork bits and pieces” and it seems a little strange.
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Saturday, June 26th, 2004
Crookston, MN
It’s not a real vacation until there’s a trip to the E.R. After 12 hours of agony I finally caved and headed to the emergency room to attend to my gastric distress. By then I was sure surgery was in my future, maybe a gal bladder, maybe an appendix. But it was just heart burn. [...]
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Thursday, June 24th, 2004
Ada, MN – Passing Thru
2553 miles I really want to male a joke about a town sharing a name with a programming language, maybe wondering if pascal and fortran are right around the bend. But the joke just isn’t there. Ada isn’t close to the best town name in the area anyway. That honor belongs to Climax, which I [...]