This Great American Drive will compel you to sing the Stars & Stripes and purchase a long, black duster. Be prepared. The Black Hills (Pahá Sápa in Lakota) are an isolated mountain range rising from the Great Plains of North America … [Read more...] about The Black Hills: 25 Memorable Sights
South Dakota’s Chocolate Mine
Just after exiting Highway 385 towards Deadwood, South Dakota on my meandering ten day SRT, a sign "Chocolates & Ice Cream" grabs my attention. An old gas-station-turned-grocery-store-turned-whatever over the years, there's a large, whimsical … [Read more...] about South Dakota’s Chocolate Mine
Road Trip North Dakota: Fargo
The desire to travel has no correlation with positive impressions despite the travel industry’s ardent efforts to convince us otherwise. I’m often moved to action by emotional responses that would have the experts gnashing their teeth (in which I … [Read more...] about Road Trip North Dakota: Fargo
L’heure Bleue “The Blue Hour”
The term has a lot of associations. From Guerlain's L'heure Bleue perfume created in 1912, to human disposition, as in "beating the wintertime blues", to a time of innocence, such as that used to describe Paris just prior to World War I, a definition … [Read more...] about L’heure Bleue “The Blue Hour”
The Enchanted Highway
North Dakota's Enchanted Highway is 32 miles of soaring, metal art sculpture that qualify as some of the largest in the world. They are as unusual as they are enjoyable, qualifying unequivocally as must-see Americana Road Art. But the highway isn't … [Read more...] about The Enchanted Highway