Month: July 2016

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Day 7–Badlands and bad flies

The Badlands were an unexpected, awe-inspiring sight. Not a single picture could or has ever done it justice although we certainly tried through a myriad of lenses yesterday. Exploring that grandeur was not only a highlight of this trip, but certainly one of all my travels. Surprises like a field of wild prairie dogs and […]

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Day 6–The Dads Land in the Badlands

We are almost to the one week mark of our adventure and today we met up with the Dads in the Badlands of South Dakota! This amazing landscape will be thoroughly explored and enjoyed all day tomorrow. Yay! However, we weren’t all together an hour before the kids started to recognize the difference between the […]

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Day 5 and the Strange Beauty that is Sioux Falls

Walmart Cashier: Welcome to Walmart! Did you find everything you were looking for? Thelma: Yes, thank you. We don’t need a bag for the Venus Flytrap. Cashier: (Scanning eclectic mixture of consumer goods.) That is sure a lot of Band-Aids and Neosporin you’ve got there. Thelma: Four-square accident. And I’m still healing from sticking my […]

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Day 4–Sioux Falls

We committed no felonies today. However, if looking this good after four days with campground hair and a glowing sheen from perspiration and bugspray is a crime, then we are guilty as charged, my friends. We traveled due north today through hundreds of miles of Iowa corn fields and farmland to the next pit stop […]

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Day 3 (and almost my last)

I thought it might take a little longer, but Day 3 was the moment Louise tried to kill me. I should have known something was amiss when she returned to the campsite with a trail of cheap wine from Walgreen’s that led to the back of a rented white U-Haul cargo van. The fact that […]

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Day 2–St. Louis/KC

The first question people usually ask when they hear about this trip is whether or not we ever burn ourselves on the crack pipe we surely must be smoking to attempt this. The second most frequently asked is if the RV is hard to drive. The answer to that (and the first question, of course) […]

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Day 1-St. Louis

We gave new meaning to the concept of Western Expansion today as Thelma and Louise safely crossed the Mississippi with 8 kids in tow on Day 1 of the Crazy Tour. So far, so good. While the 5 hour trip took closer to 8, I blame that on an extra lunch stop in the parking […]

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The Trip

We are firing up the ol’ blog today in an effort to chronicle the epic road trip in which 13 people—9 of them kids—load up in an RV and attempt to navigate the next 5000 western miles and still remain coherent, contributing members of society when we pull back into the driveway a month from […]