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July 14, 2014
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Today, Tuesday, 8 July is the last day before I start my drive down the Great River Road. I’m staying at the wonderfully named C’Mon Inn in Park Rapids tonight where I will be about 20 miles south of Itasca …
July 11, 2014
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The second carved mountain. Mount Rushmore is 16 miles or so northeast from the site of the Crazy Horse Memorial – about a 25-to-35 minute-drive – depending on the vehicles ahead of you once you get onto road 244. Coming …
July 11, 2014
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I expected Monday would be one of the more ambitious days of the trip and it proved to be just that. I started a bit later than I’d planned because I miscalculated the impact of the time change when I’d …