Days 33-35: Teddy R’s Badass Badlands & Buttes, and a Monk Gets Getzoff (North Dakota) Days 33-35: Teddy R’s Badass Badlands & Buttes, and a Monk Gets Getzoff (North Dakota) “Hello, butte-iful!” I am giddy. “I’m in fucking North Dakota!” How crazy is this?
Days 31 & 32: TheRealBonk, I’mNotGerman, ManCaved (S-Dak, 3) Days 31 & 32: TheRealBonk, I’mNotGerman, ManCaved (S-Dak, 3) Refreshed! Enlivened! Abloom with openness and curiosity! Dying to move on! That’s how three nights at the Econo Lodge and two 8-hour days toiling away at the Rawlins Municipal Library in Pierre, S-Dak affect you.
Days 27-30: Buddies! City Life Musings! (S-Dak, 2) Days 27-30: Buddies! City Life Musings! (S-Dak, 2) No more rabbit-hole pop-philosophizing – let’s get down to the (wet) business of riding in the not-exactly-raining rain!
Days 24-26: Let’s Talk About the Buffalo in the Room (South Dakota, 1) Days 24-26: Let’s Talk About the Buffalo in the Room (South Dakota, 1) I have a cursory late-20th-century public-school skim-over knowledge of the Lewis & Clark expedition. Pretty much Schoolhouse Rock’s “Elbow Room.”
DAY 23: Life’s in Session, Baby! (Iowa, Part 3) DAY 23: Life’s in Session, Baby! (Iowa, Part 3) It took 23 days to have that moment in the dirt. 23 days to have that moment that will NEVER be funny in retrospect. NEVER!
Days 20-22: Getting Some Love and Care from Iowan Parents (Iowa, Part 2) Days 20-22: Getting Some Love and Care from Iowan Parents (Iowa, Part 2) I follow the “Detour” signs…right onto Interstate 80!