Day 1~ We made it!

Saturday ~ June 18, 2011

Road Rash 2011 got off to a great start! We left home at 6:15 am on Saturday morning! Our itinerary called for a 14 hour drive with our destination being Tower Campground in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Jim started off and drove a marathon 7 hour shift! Dave did some driving too!


What did the women do, you may be asking? Well, not a whole lot!! They had a lovely time watching the scenery fly by, reading, napping, looking up future stops on the internet and talking...
well, by the pictures it looks like Diana did a lot of the talking! Was Kathy listening?
Not so much.

How about Dave and Jim...
Don't think they were either!

Lunch time was a blast trying to maneuver while the rv was moving at 70 miles an hour! Ha! Bet they are all listening now! That's a big knife!


We stopped at places like this...
to get stuff like that...
and to check that these were still hanging there!

We found our way to Minnesota!

We saw many wind turbines~

We were very excited to see this sign go flying by... South Dakota!

We arrived at campsite at 9:15 central time and we had traveled 975 miles! Great job guys!
CHEERS!

Morning Day 2, brings us Sunday June 19th. Father's Day!

We have a couple of those aboard!

Kathy and Diana treated them to a fabulous breakfast!
Happy Father's Day!

Tower Campgrounds...
We have been on the road about an hour today and plan to drive to Rapid City, South Dakota. Our camp tonight will be The Horse Thief Campsite and Resort! We have taken beautiful pictures on the road this morning and plan on visiting Mount Rushmore today!

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation. ~Elizabeth Drew


4 comments:

  1. Holy Cow.....you sure did make it a long way on day 1!!! Glad your girls had a chance to relax a bit!!! Thanks for the update....checked 3 times before I actually saw one...was wondering, ok... what the heck!!!
    Dave and Jim.......Happy Father's DAy!!!!!! You are great dads!!

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  2. Hahaha! Meigan - I did the same thing! For some reason, I figured the blog would be like a 24 hour webcam... WHAT THE HECK?!
    Glad to see all four of you still alive... I fear with all of your talking (mom), some of you may not make it!
    Keep on truckin'! See ya tomorrow :)

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  3. Was there some reason WHY you went so far and nearly killed yourselves on the first day?

    Well - - - I speak for myself - - - that long of a day would nearly kill me.

    I see smiles all around, which is a GREAT sign.

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  4. This is just so much fun! : ) Seriously. SO. Much. Fun! I want to do this some day.

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