Category: Adventure

Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse Monuments

August 22

We spent the day exploring the KOA, Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse Monument.

I didn’t take any photos, but the KOA is not your normal Campground. It’s price should have given that away, but we all were in shock when we rolled into the resort and saw swimming pools, a water slide, a splash park, bouncing area, playground, 3 or 4 restaurants and horses!

Kids both took advantage of the water slide, and Addy spent extra time at the bounce area, pool and mini golf.

We headed into the mountains further to visit Mount Rushmore. Being closer to the rocky formations was even better than the previous days far away viewing!

When we made it around to the front side of the Monument, it was clear that this place was going to be way more awesome than originally expected. I caught these pictures just from the car!

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Trail to Rushmore

AUGUST 20-21

After a long night freaking out about going over Teton Pass with our rig, I awoke early to verify I had found a much better route that only added about 45 minutes to our drive.

Going south on 31 from Victor to the 26 took us through much lower grades (6% rather than the 10% Teton requires). Though the pass was not as steep, it was still beautiful.

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Yellowstone and Grand Tetons

AUGUST 19th

First off, let me say that if you even think you will have time to visit some National Parks, you must get the annual pass. It has paid for itself in three park visits alone! So basically the rest of our park visits are now free until June next year, which is pretty cool!

Now, we spent our last full day at Murray’s in Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons. A full day was not enough to see it all, and the abundance of tourists kept us focused on the less beaten paths, which we like better anyway!

We started in West Yellowstone again, but this time headed north around the upper part of the park after crossing back into Wyoming!

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Well after an almost flat tire and great save by Shawnda we were headed out to adventure once more.

Now you should know other than a very few destinations none of our wandering has been planned to even the day we are going to be somewhere or planned at all for that matter. There are of course places and people we want to visit but the in between is where adventure lies.

Now we were headed to the great Teton mountains but in doing so you have to go where no Gallup has gone before.

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Enough With The “Bumps” In The Road!

We made it to Idaho! Woo Hoo!

Burns, Oregon was a booming metropolis, and the only thing we can figure is it is a central hub for travelers and commercial vehicles transiting from coast to coast or north to south. The campground was well laid out with large sites and beautiful grassy lawns with the sound of frogs in the background!

After our overnight stop in Burns, we moved our way further East through more rolling hills, farmland and ranches.

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Though I feel like we have been sitting for too long here in Klamath Falls, OR we have not really been idle.

We have been taking care of a few things we have planned to do for some time and others that have come up since starting our adventure.

We installed a fence at our house here in Klamath which was in our plans from the start. Of course we did not plan on 90 deg temps while doing it but ahh what’s a little heat.

The Klamath County fair has been going on the past week so that warranted a visit.

They had a great shuttle from the parking lot to the main entrance to the fair. To be honest it was only a few hundred feet to walk but who could turn down a ride on this bad boy.

Now you should all know that Shawnda is not much for carnival rides, the spinning kind any way. So in good form I went off to ride the Ferris wheel with Addy and Alex wrangled Shawnda into going to ride the Rampage

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Rivers, Streams and Lakes

The last couple of days have found us back in the interior, headed east through Oregon. We spent a night at this great hidden gem of a campground called Casey’s Riverside RV Park.

The park runs parallel to the Willamette River and is hidden behind a well kept Mobil home park. At first we weren’t too sure, but as we drove in we quickly realized how well kept the place was. The kids wanted to hit the pool right away after we checked in and got set up; which I can say is down to taking about 10 minutes flat. The pool was not cold (it was mid 80’s outside), and the water was clean with very little chemical smell to it. John even took a splash and I sat poolside and dipped my legs in. It was refreshing.

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“Toto, I don’t think we are in Kansas any longer”

The last few days of our journey back onto US soil have been doused with amazing scenery and family time.

An easy AM breakfast on a day when we were out of water (3 days of camping in provincial parks) followed by vast farmlands and rolling mountainsides that reminded me of many trips through central California with my parents and sister to go camping.

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I Cannot Believe My Eyes

I thought the prior days were amazing when it came to scenery and wildlife viewing. After leaving Muncho Lake, we continued out of the Northern Rockies and ran across more wildlife and differing scenery.

This caribou was so busy doing his thing that it let us drive right up to it. We weren’t harassing it by any means, it was just right on the side of the highway next to the passenger side of the truck. It did not give a lick that we were there. So we took some pictures and continued down the road, and what a beautiful road it was!

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