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Roadtrip Day 9: Devil’s Tower, Buffalo, Bighorn, Cody
My alarm went off at 7:30 and, miraculously, I woke up feeling relatively good. By which I mean I was more sore from “sleeping” scrunched up in my back seat than I was hungover or tired. Camping (even in cars) and being close to nature really does unlock something deeper in human nature, I believe,…
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Roadtrip Day 8: Rushmore, Black Hills, Wind Cave, Hulett
Upon waking up on this 8th day of my trip, anxiety was my dominant emotion. I was worried about keeping up with writing down all that I’d been experiencing; I was bothered by issues I’d been having with my web host; I was anticiparanxious because I was coming up on the end of what I…
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Roadtrip Day 7: Sioux Falls, Minuteman, Badlands, Wall
I left my Airbnb early, seeing no sign of my fascinating hosts, and unsure if I should try to lock the door on my way out. Airbnb has a lot of issues that are currently being legislated in many locales due to abuse, reducing housing supply, and bypassing hotel regulations…But the original idea—of strangers sharing…
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Roadtrip Day 6: Kasson, Pipestone, and Sioux Falls
My first thought upon waking up in Rochester, MN was that I couldn’t wait to get out of town. There weren’t really even any non-chain coffee shops that I could find in the city, so I did a quick drivethrough pass of “downtown” Rochester just to make sure I wasn’t missing anything cool in the…
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Roadtrip Day 5: Taliesin, Effigy Mounds, Toppling Goliath, and Rochester
It may have only been day number 5 (of who knows how many to come), but I was already starting to question my pace. I felt right at home in Madison and wanted no more but to spend a few days here walking around more of the city between the two lakes and seeing what…
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Roadtrip Day 4: Indiana Dunes, Pullman, Rockford, and Madison
It had been a clear night, so I didn’t bother with the rainfly and was able to watch the stars through lightly shifting trees as I fell asleep. In fact I slept quite well…Until I was awoken at 4am by truck noise, since I-94 was only a mile away from the campground.