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Rapid City, SD
Leaving Devils Tower, we headed east toward Rapid City, which lies at the far west end of South Dakota where the western mountainous region of the state gives way to the eastern grassy prairie areas that dominate the remainder of the state. Turns out, Rapid City is the perfect home base for a thousand different…
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Badlands National Park
Badlands is a unique and oddly-shaped national park. Most of the experience is simply driving from one end to the other, although it offers a couple of decent hiking opportunities as well. The odd shape and driving-focused experience are owing to the harsh stretch of jagged rocks that separate the lower prairie from the upper…
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Custer State Park
The size of a national park, and with some of the features of a national park, Custer State Park in South Dakota is pretty incredible for a not-a-national-park destination. Mostly because of the animals. Ok it’s entirely because of the animals. This park has an 18-mile loop road that is dedicated to animal viewing and…
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Mount Rushmore National Memorial
Everybody knows Rushmore. No explanation or description required. It’s a bunch of old dudes carved in rock on the side of a hill, so let’s check this box and move on, right? Wrong. It was one of the best experience’s we’ve had on this trip. The overall impact, the history, and the presentation itself were…
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Cody and Devils Tower
We are still buzzing from our visit to Yellowstone, mostly because opportunities to see big game animals are nonexistent around the Portland area. We see the occasional deer and the rare cow elk, but the others are basically nonexistent for us outside Yellowstone. We’re grateful to have visited our favorite park once again. At the…
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Yellowstone!
Call us vain and picky, but despite the beauty of Glacier, we found ourselves yearning for the unique and familiar experience of Yellowstone. We did not originally plan to visit Yellowstone on this trip. We had instead planned to visit Lewis and Clark Caverns for a cave hike. But the animal-free Glacier experience cemented a…
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Glacier National Park!
This place is like something out of Lord of the Rings: desolate, inaccessible, and breathtaking. We knew very little beforehand, beyond anecdotal reports of its beauty. But such reports without context or explanation do not much capture my fascination. I have questions: Why did this area merit becoming a national park? Why is it called…
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The First Step of 2024’s Big Trip!
The Mouse House is loose!! Our 2024 big trip is officially under way. Micki spent all year planning, I’ve spent the last month tinkering with the electrical system, and we both have spent the last week packing the truck and trailer. Friday we rolled out, headed east. The trip is something of a combination affair,…
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Cultists Unite! Seaperch Airstream Rally 2024
It’s not a cult, but it’s not entirely not a cult. We are members of the Oregon chapter of the Airstream Club International, which means we hang out with plenty of other Airstream owners who are equally as proud of their travel trailers, sometimes more. At the member breakfasts we share travel stories, tips, warnings,…
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2024 Adventures
First an apology because I’ve slacked on these posts. The reasons are several, as are the motivations to write these entries, both of which will likely be the subject of a future post. But I do have partial entries for several of the adventures last year that followed our big Florida trip, so I’ll try…
Mouse House Adventures 