Author: Kevin

Just down the road from Craters of the Moon was this little gem.  It is a building on the outskirts of the land that is sectioned off for Idaho National Laboratory (which is HUGE.)  EBR-1 was the first nuclear reactor in the world to generate electricity, way back in 1951.  It was decommissioned in 1964…

We spent two separate days visiting Yellowstone with L and A. C and I had visited it once before, and I’d already been through it one time before that, but the most geothermally active place on the planet never really gets boring since it is a little different every time you visit it. The park…

For one of the days we spent in the Custer area of South Dakota we decided to head about 40 minutes south to Hot Springs and see what was there, hoping it would be more interesting than Hot Springs, AR…  Sure enough, it turned out to be another resort town where the local businesses have…

As we packed up and left our campsite in ND, the weather had actually cleared up and made for a very nice drive down to SD.  Once we were setup in our new location, we went to bed early so we could meet our climbing guide in Custer State Park first thing in the morning….

The next day we awoke to an even stormier day than the last.  Having dried out our rain gear from the previous day, we packed up and hit the road for an hour long trip to the northern unit of the park.  The heavy rain kept our hiking to a minimum, but the scenery was…

At the end of our stay in Arkansas, we hitched up for what will probably end up being our longest stretch of solid traveling.  Two days to the eastern edge of North Dakota, and one more day to travel to the western side of the same state.  Goodbye shorts and t-shirts, hello long pants and…

While still setup at Devil’s Den in Arkansas, we decided to drive an hour and a half to visit Natural Falls State Park in Oklahoma.  The park itself is surprisingly small, but you can quickly see why it was turned into a state park via a 2 minute walk down a paved trail: Dripping Springs…

After leaving Petit Jean State Park, we headed NW for about 3 hours to Devil’s Den State Park.  We stopped along the way for supplies and splurged on a lunch at Arbys.  That turned out to be a mistake…not because the food was bad, but because we ran into the creepiest fast food employee ever. …