Month: July 2020

Sorry, Toothie, but we’ve got a last minute callout to North Dakota! Fly safe!

Today was our last full day in Medora and as fun as this town is, there is only so much to do, especially when it is hot and the town pool opted to stay closed for the season. We had a couple of things left on our to-do list and then we planned to make…

Today we had a lot to fit in! We started off with a drive through Theodore Roosevelt National Park. We went into the Visitor Center to get our Junior Ranger booklets, and due to a shortage, they only gave us one for the family. When we got in the car, the kids immediately started fighting…

This morning we set out to explore this tiny down in the daylight!  At the beginning of our exploration, there is a bridge we have to drive over and it has a very distinct road noise when cars drive over it.  Levi hated it!  Once we were across, we realized we had gone just a…

Trista started singing the title of this post to the tune of “LIMU EMUUUU and Doug!” ad for Liberty Mutual on TV. We managed to get everything packed up and loaded.  We drove “up top” to be reunited with our tow dolly.  I went into the office and noticed that they had a bucket of…

Woke up this morning at 840, our online church starts at 830, missed the first part of the worship set, but caught the message and the last song.  It was fun to be able to living room church from South Dakota! In case you are wondering about John’s back injury, it still looks horrifying and…

Usual.  Got up. Breakfast, pack a lunch, head out for the Badlands.  Before we left, Trista and I packed some car games for the trip east.  We started out with some camping related Mad Libs, and Levi tried to plug in something from Minecraft every chance he got.  Trista did NOT want Minecraft answers, so…

Today we ventured to Mount Rushmore.  Got up and fixed some breakfast, packed a picnic, drove a lovely drive through Custer State Park and headed to Mount Rushmore.  John and I had been here before and while it is really something to see, it isn’t a place that we felt we needed to spend a…

INJURY REPORT: Goodness gracious… can’t win for losing!  Today was a travel day and luckily it was a short one!  Last night, just before bed, Levi fell off the bunk (he was up there for story time and kept screwing around and I kept telling him to get back and finally he fell between the…

Walmart. ‘nuff said. Today we went to Sheridan to hit Walmart and stock up on the groceries to carry us through our Dakota Adventure.  Let me just say this about that…  When I was in 3rd grade, we had to make an acrostic poem with our name.  I remember mine started with, “Tonya is my…

And we are off again!  Our goal for today was to be out by noon.  For those of you paying attention, that should mean a best case scenario 2pm departure… HA!  We were on the road at 10 AM!  10 AM ON THE RIGHT DAY!!!!  See what we can do? Yeah, well, good thing, because…

It is amazing to me how my happiness factor can increase so drastically by going from a 2500 sq ft 5 bed/4 bath home with it’s own laundry room to a 250 sq ft, 1 stinky bath mobile dwelling using a less than pristine laundromat, but here we are… I seriously wondered today why I…