23,500 miles and 93 days later, I finally made it to one of the top places on my list. Rapid City, South Dakota. It's the "hub" of southwest SD. There is just so much to experience here, it is one of those places where you can spend weeks and still not see everything....

Bismarck, like everywhere else, was nothing like I expected. It's a nice little city, only three exits along the highway. The only thing I really knew about North Dakota was from the movie, Fargo, and from a television show, The West Wing. In the show, someone attends...

It was just a beautiful day for a long drive, and nothing like what I expected this far north in October. 80 degrees and the day bathed in sunlight. It was something that I needed, refreshing and revitalizing. I finally made it to Montana and then turned east along...

Everybody knows about western Wyoming. Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Tetons are heavyweights, so they tilt the state west. I had never had any intention of stopping there. Maybe another trip, when they are not in season. And then there is the whole fire...

It was just one of those "blah" days. Confusing. Where do I go from here? Green River, Wyoming. A bunch of things, I think, are starting to catch up to me. Almost 90 days of hotel rooms. One and two day stops. My trip picked up speed in Alaska and I can't seem to slow...

Just simply gorgeous. Moab and the vicinity are one of my favorites of the trip. I was happy to pass back by going the other way, even though it is now in season with temperatures dropping and crowds increasing. I'm really trying to get the video going here because I...

Feel Good Pit Stop "I feel like a kid," the older man said while his wife was positioning him for just the right shot in front of the flatbed ford in Winslow, Arizona. His wife just gave him a look. I tried being helpful while waiting for my turn. "We're all kids...

Through my travels, I'm finding the oddest similarities between places that should not be. Sedona is appropriately beautiful as expected. Just driving through the town, you can stop every 50 yards for a photo opportunity. I found it interesting in that it is much like...

Well, I didn't mean to drive through two national parks, but there you have it. It got confusing. Utah, Arizona and I am pretty sure I was briefly in California? --that's what my GPS said. That's three different time zones. I also think I entered Utah three times. My...

The day did not start off well. First stop, Shoshone Falls, was easy to find. It just a ten minute drive from where I was at. It was a beautiful park with an overlook to the falls and a lake. The falls, though you cannot tell, are called the Niagara Falls of the West....

There and back again: a coffee addicts story? A story of Covid hibernation boredom gone horribly wrong? A story of a well deserved mid life crisis? Or maybe just a journey of miles, memories and thoughts as 50 approaches as explicitly as the consequences to changes I...

Fall in Fairbanks A question was nagging me about Alaska and it was finally answered when I went to meet a friend and her family at a nearby park. I arrived early and chatted with a guy who had lived here for decades. A Brit, his father had worked on the pipeline and...