For our first full day in Colorado, we hung out with a friend of mine who is studying there. She showed us around town and drove us up to a more scenic area, which looked oddly Scottish due to what…
Day 7: Cheyenne, WY and Fort Collins, CO
After spending the night in Douglas, we attempted to leave. This was a challenge. Some setting on our navigation system made it want to give us a detour 70 miles out of our way starting off going north instead of…
Minor Differences: Where The Streets Have Two Names
The video editing has become a bit overwhelming as our days have become very densely packed. While that’s going on, here’s a video on the street system in the US: England generally doesn’t organise cities into ‘blocks’ as they mostly evolved…
Day 6: Mount Rushmore and Eastern Wyoming
Friday morning we finally made it to Mount Rushmore, which Chris had really wanted to see since we recently re-watched Superman 2. It did not disappoint. Sure, the parking feels like a bit of a rip off, but the actual…
Day 5: The Badlands
We left Kadoka bright and early since we had changed time zone and getting up was easy. We headed off to Badlands National Park. From Native Americans to French fur traders, everyone has considered these lands ‘bad’. I assume what they…
Day 4: More SD – Corn, God and Time
We got our first rainy day so far in Mitchell. We went to see the Corn Palace anyway. There isn’t a lot to it, but it is fairly unique (and full of corn related products and humour): There was a…
Day 3: South Dakota and One of the World’s Weirdest Sculpture Parks
Windom, MN was extremely small and rural. We didn’t really speak to anyone there since we had arrived so late the night before and left first thing in the morning. Fortunately on the way out of town the next day, we…
Day 2: Merrier Minnesota in Mankato
We spent the first half of the second day in Mankato, MN. Mankato is a pretty chilled out place, which was refreshing after the events of day 1. We went to their local museum, BECHS. We saw several items and…
Day 1: Minnesota
We have finally started traveling! This has been a mixed bag so far. It is good to finally be on the road, but we had to start off attempting to deal with Chris’s on going social security issue. We had…
Minor Differences Extra: Lynx and Minstrels
We are now on the road and it’s a bit manic. In the meantime, here’s a snippet from the Minor Differences: Around the Home post that we didn’t include: Tomorrow, we’ll have a bigger update on the start of our…