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The Land of Tack

Saturday, September 24th, 2005

Well, before the trip around the US a bunch of our friends in Houston were giving us a hard time asking if we were going to visit the world’s largest ball of twine, etc. Up until we hit North Dakota we hadn’t visited any dodgy tourist attractions. I guess the Midwest is where you need to come for giant cows and museums dedicated to canned meat.
Don’t get me wrong, we’ve seen some nice things too, but how many over-sized statues can you look at before it just gets boring?
Click below to see the attractions from Eastern North Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, both tacky and nice.
We also visited Voyaguers National Park and canoed in the Boundary Waters in Minnesota but I don’t have any photos to put up as it was pretty rainy the whole time. It was still really beautiful but I kept waiting for a nice day to take photos…
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North Dakota

Wednesday, September 14th, 2005

Click below to see the photos and hear what we did in North Dakota.

Another cool thing we saw in North Dakota but didn’t get any pictures of was a really impressive northern lights display. According to Brice usually a show as good as what we saw would not occur until December or January. Apparently we were very lucky to a display like that, and neither Dave nor I had ever seen the northern lights before. It was awesome!
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South Dakota

Monday, September 12th, 2005
Well, in South Dakota we got to see and do a lot. There are two caves there that are National Parks, so we visited both Wind and Jewel Caves. We visited Mt. Rushmore of course, and the Crazy Horse memorial ... [Continue reading this entry]

More mountains, mountains, mountains

Monday, September 12th, 2005
These are pictures from all the other mountains we climbed in Colorado. Click below to check them out! There are pictures from La Plata Mountain, Mt. Huron, Mt. Evans, Gray's and Torrey's Peaks and Mt. Beirstat. la plata1.jpg[Continue reading this entry]

Colorado Springs and Denver

Monday, September 12th, 2005
We were lucky enough to get to see Hank and Kirsten before Hank left for Afghanistan and visit some friends in Denver. Hank and Kirsten took us to our fist biker ralley (not as crazy as it sounds) and we ... [Continue reading this entry]