by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Travel
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce Today we drove from Canistota, SD to Le Claire, IA. One way or another, we had to go South to get around the Great Lakes, but it was fun driving through Minnesota first, since my dad was there closing on his new house (he is nearing...
by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Travel
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce Today, we drove to De Smet to see the Laura Ingalls Wilder homestead. I must admit, I felt like this was a bit of an indulgence for our youngest daughter, who has read and re-read the Little House on the Prairie books at least twice, was...
by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Travel
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce We have now been on the road for a month. We left June 27 and it is July 27. Believe it or not, none of us are really ready for it to end. We really could, I think, do a two-month road trip and manage just fine. What really amazes me is...
by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Travel
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce Today we drove an hour outside of Gillette to see Devils Tower. It’s Devils, not Devil’s, because of a typo on the application form for designating the geologic formation as a national monument. It was something Dave had...
by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Travel
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce What looks good on the map doesn’t always come out the way you expect, but the fact that the roads are “seasonally closed” should have been a clue. I don’t regret the path we took, but then, so far, Dave has done...
by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Travel
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce I’ve driven through Wyoming a number of times and thought the experience was boring to the point of surreal. Flat landscape marked only by shadows of oil wells and the occasional deer munching on sweet greens on the side of the...
