Sunday, October 5, 2008

North Dakota Trip Conclusion

Our trip to North Dakota was awesome. In all we drove 3,230 miles in nine days. 853 miles on the last day. Quite a lot of driving in a short amount of time.. We drove through eight states, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Iowa. Most importantly Jack has now been to North Dakota and has visited all 50 states. He is happy about that. The weather was perfect for almost the whole trip. There was only one day at the start of the trip of poor weather but after that it was sunny and pretty much cloudless the whole trip. We could not have asked for better weather.

The highlights of the trip were arriving in North Dakota, Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota, and the Black Hills of South Dakota. It would be nice to spend more time in both the Theodore Roosevelt National Park area and the Black Hills area. There are a lot more things to do that we just did not have time to do. I would have liked to had time to do more hiking. The black hills of SD could be a vacation destination in itself. A two week trip would have been ideal.

All in all it was a successful trip and we are glad we went.


Now Jack is talking about a trip back to Yellow Stone National park....

Today we are cleaning up and recovering from all the driving. I will sort through the gazillion pictures we took. I will post any more interesting ones I find. This was my first attempt at blogging. I think it worked out ok.

Just curious who (if anyone) is viewing this blog?

Thanks for reading.


Dave

Here is one more picture of Jack and I in Theodore Roosevelt National Park.



6 comments:

Unknown said...

Dave,

Loved the blog! Followed you and Jack the whole time. I believe you have a future in blogging.
Andrew and Anabelle want to see the giant Bison!
Take Care,

Kenny
(kfkunz@pol.net)

Michelle said...

Hi! The blog was awesome. Loved all the pictures. So when are you going to Yellowstone? I can't believe how much driving you guys did. I'm glad you had a good time.

Anonymous said...

Glad you had a great time and are home safe! Sure enjoyed the blog and pictures. Larry

Anonymous said...

What a trip! Followed your blog the whole time as well as your route via my Road Atlas.

Pictures were great--keep them coming.

Dave, if you ever change careers you might try journaling--great stories.

Your envious mom,
Marilyn

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the comments. Kenny in a few years you should take Anabelle and Andrew to see the big bison. Or maybe just the black hills probably more kid friendly.

Now if I could just get Jack to read the blog. He says he has been to busy though. His chair was lonely while he was gone.

Dave

Anonymous said...

Awesome blog Dave. I have made a similar trip several times - lots of good memories. Glad you had a good time.

Jim