Left before sunrise to get to Yellowstone before peak hours. The day was mostly spend making my way though the Park. Anything I could say about it wouldn’t really do it justice, so I’ll just post what I saw. If you have a chance, go check it out. Fall seems like the perfect time. Gardiner, …
Left the campsite around Bear Lake, UT as the sun was coming up. There was meant to be a solar eclipse this morning, so I hiked up into the hills to try get a good vantage point. Turns out cloud cover was too thick, but you could still see the crescent shape: Uneventful day’s drive …
Started off the day heading North towards Salt Lake City. Utah’s mountains are impressive. The landscape’s pretty desolate. Quick break in Provo, a nice town. The BYU kids I saw milling around seemed happy enough with it. Climbed up to the capitol building on the hill through some of SLC’s wealthier suburbs: Headed out to …
Drove through Western CO to Utah, stopping off to see if I could get into the Arches National Park to see more rocks. Got to Arches around 6PM to dodge crowds: Strongly recommend checking out Arches, it’s busy, but worth seeing. Spending the next day around Salt Lake City before heading up into Wyoming.
Started the day by checking out the Flatirons and Royal Arch in Boulder. The trails around here are really good. Royal Arch: View from the Arch: Flatirons: Downtown Boulder: Boulder Canyon on the way home: On to Utah tomorrow.
Left the reservoir campsite in Nebraska at sunrise to drive to Boulder, CO. Stopped off at a town called Scottsbluff, NE. These cliffs were used as landmarks on the Oregon Trail: After making it to Boulder CO, I had some time to kill so I drove up to the mountain town of Nederland (called “Ned” …
Spent the majority of the day in Western South Dakota. Went to Mt. Rushmore, Crazy Horse, the Badlands, and then drove down into rural Nebraska to find a campsite closer to Colorado, because I decided last-minute to add Boulder, CO to the itinerary. Overlook above Sturgis, SD just outside the campsite: Reservoir on the way …
Drove across ND today, stopped to camp in the Western part of SD around the Black Hills. Really nice area with a lot to see. Sunrise near Fort Ransom, ND (the campsite): There’s a road in ND with huge sculptures on either side: Rural ND, heading down towards SD. There is NOTHING out here: Small …
Left Mankato MN today, drove up through Minneapolis into North Dakota. Stopped over at a national park in western ND for the night. Minneapolis Passing through Fargo, ND after a day of driving: Through the ND backroads towards the state park:
Iowa: Omaha, NE: Omaha was pretty empty from what I could see. The most activity I saw was a white shirt + sleeveless Columbia puffer jacket PE guy outside a coffee shop talking loudly to his buddy about ‘carry’. Seems like a nice enough city though. Sioux Falls Not much going on here. The falls …
Left Chicago to drive West through Iowa. Not much to include here because thew whole of Iowa looks like this from the interstate: The worlds largest truckstop apparently. Was so big it had an on-site dentist so I’ll take their word for it. Campsite was pretty nice though:
Day 2 of 2 full days in Chicago. Willis Tower observation deck: Downtown, 12th Street Beach, Chinatown This thing was fenced off and surrounded by construction but I managed to get a shot by climbing up a fence nearby: Got a deep dish pizza just for the bit, but it’s not really worth it. This …
Day 1 of 2 full days in Chicago. Boat tour Navy Pier Other assorted stuff Did not know Nando’s had made it’s way out here. Killing some time late afternoon: Whoever wrote this was laughing:
On the way out of WI I drove through this area called the Wisconsin Dells for gas. I went in blind, turns out the whole town is a bizarre tourist trap with stuff like a giant Trojan horse, faux Greek temples, Transformer statues, all kinds of movie tie-in theme parks etc. Weird place. Drove through …
Left MI early to spend most of the day in Wisconsin. Had to refuel in some rest stop on Lake Michigan: Went through Green Bay, but looks like it’s heavily industrial. At least the parts I saw were, so here’s some random pier instead: Stopped off in Oshkosh, WI for lunch: Every place in WI …
Spent the whole day in Michigan. Drove up from just above Lansing, MI to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Park. From there, Traverse City, over the Mackinac bridge to the Upper Peninsula (UP), and around the coast of Lake Michigan. Sleeping Bear Dunes: Northern part of the lower peninsula: Mackinac Bridge and the Upper Peninsula: Michigan …
Drove up from Columbus through Detroit, Ann Arbor, and to a campsite around the middle of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula. Interstate driving through Ohio was grey skies and fields so I’m just going to leave that out. Detroit Ignore the logo: Ann Arbor I didn’t know this was an expensive big brain college town. Gets a …
Bardstown, KY -> Louisville -> Indianapolis -> Columbus, OH Continued the unevetful streak today by driving hundreds of miles through fields. I’ve been driving high mileage so far just to get some distance down, but I’ll be slowing it down significantly once I hit Chicago. IN: Maybe the weather put a damper on things but …
Broke camp in Monongahela pretty early, drove up to Spruce Knob, the highest point in WV. Got there and the fog had rolled in, so I saw nothing. I’m assuming this is what it’s meant to look like: Stopped in Elkins & Charleston, WV for quick breaks. Not much photo evidence – going to be …
Charlotte, NC -> Roanoke, VA -> Monongahela National Forest, WV Currently in the outskirts of Charleston, WV. Spent last night in the Monongahela National Forest. Heading to Louisville, KY for a drink. Sadly most of the pics are too big for my hotspot to cope with, so I’ll post properly when I get somewhere with …