The past few days have just been a blur. Before I get too far behind and forget the order of things, I wanted to document what has happened so far.
After some sad goodbyes, we headed out from my parents’ house on Tuesday the 14th:
We drove to St. Louis and stayed in a downtown RV park that had all the charm of a fenced in parking lot:
Of course, we visited the arch:
..and went up in the arch (can you tell which daughter is the worrier?)
We also spent an afternoon at the City Museum. If you ever go to St. Louis and DON’T visit the City Museum, you’ve wasted a trip.
After we left St. Louis, we had to take several detours as we continued West due to the Missouri river flooding many areas:
…and many other areas expecting to flood:
After 4 days and almost 1000 miles of scenery that looked largely indistinguishable from Indiana, we hit the South Dakota prairie, which was very cool. John-Dunbar-Dances-with-Wolves kind of cool:
And then, out of nowhere, the Badlands appeared. This is our spot for the week:
