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Today's "Top of the Blog" Comment

We left Rocky Mountain National Park for home today shortly before Noon after getting a phone call that Ellen Foyle passed away this (Saturday) morning.
We were just ready to start a 5 day camping stay inside the park but in no way could we enjoy that special event knowing we would not be there for Ellen and her family.
Within 90 minutes of getting the phone call we were on the road heading home.
We drove 400 of the 1200 miles to get home today and will be home on Monday.
This is probably the end of the blog.

From within we can only say that Ellen Foyle holds a very special place in our hearts and she will be deeply missed.
Love, Ellen & Jim

Monday, August 31, 2009

Monday - Mirror Lake to Palisades State Park, SD

Decided to move on today and Go West.

Long drive of 400 miles to Palisades State Park just inside the South Dakota state border.
Nice drive on good, recently repaved roads.  It's normal to think of the US Interstate road system to be perfect, when in  fact a lot of it is in need of repair.  It's a great time for the Government to put a lot of unemployed people to work improving our infrastructure.  Most of today was on "repaired" road and a pleasant experience.  Most of I-90 appeared to be "under construction".  Anyway, point is the drive was smooth and comfortable.

Arrived around 5:00pm and settled in for the night.
Very clean park but probably not of enough interest to keep us here longer than one night. This is the site of Jessie James's leap on horseback from the cliffs into the river to avoid capture.  We might explore the area a little before moving on.

Less than 300 miles to the Badlands so I am certain we will get there tomorrow.

We are driving too far and not staying long enough in one spot to make the time to post pictures.  We'll spent two or three days in the Badlands and promise to have pictures by then.

Got to go, just got a knock on the door.  Mike and Cindy are having an electrical issue.  I'll post this in the morning.

2 comments:

  1. I hope you can get the Notre Dame game on TV this Saturday!!!

    Nephew Dan

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  2. Okay... I'm dying to see the 1-800-RENT-ME moterhome!!! Hope the trip is going well, looking forward to following along on the blog!! ROLL ON!!!

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