The Great Gardner Black Hills Adventure
Day 1:

Date Miles Stops Destination Adventure
Tues 7/24/07 642 Omaha,NE
Kearny,NE
Sterling, CO
Greeley, CO Ride in Quest

Day 2:

Date Miles Stops Destination Adventure
Wed 7/25/07     Cheyenne, WY Air Force Thunderbirds Show
  623 Chugwater,WY
Hot Springs, SD
Rapid City, SD Drinking
07-07 Vacation 2.jpg (553717 bytes)Erin not so sure about vacation during a hot stop

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Ben's loving vacation

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Spent our first night in Greeley, CO

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Mom & Dad drinking on first night

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Just before Thunderbirds air show...

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...in Cheyenne, WY

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At a "rest area" in desolate eastern WY

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Mom and sissy on the prairie

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Mom and Ben cuddling

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Erin the bed hog

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Kids at Mt. Rushmore

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Ben's chopper ride around Crazy Horse

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Kids enjoying the Black Hills along Needles Hwy

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Mom working on her class during vacation

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Eating at the Firehouse Brew Pub in Rapid City

Day 5:

Date Miles Stops Destination Adventure
Thur 7/26/07     Rapid City, SD Mt. Rushmore
Crazy Horse
Helicopter Ride
Fri 7/27/07     Rapid City, SD Watiki Water Park
Mt. Rushmore Night Lighting
Sat 7/28/07 350 Murdo, SD Sioux Falls, SD Visit our friends - Hohlweiler's
Sun 7/29/07 285 Sioux City, IA Home Remembering why Sioux City still sucks

Day 6:

Vacation Highlights:

JellyBelly Semi in Waverly, NE
Jujyfruits Semi - Kearney, NE
Hot Springs, South Dakota was very quaint
We saw license plates from every state in the U.S. EXCEPT: Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Maryland, Mississippi, South Carolina, West Virginia
We DID see Alaska & Quebec
Erin toots VERY loudly during the evening lighting ceremony at Mt. Rushmore
We counted 73 Wall Drug Signs just from Rapid City to Wall...heading East
Need a new radar detector
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