Category: Personal
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Roadtrip Day 7: Sioux Falls, Minuteman, Badlands, Wall
I left my Airbnb early, seeing no sign of my fascinating hosts, and unsure if I should try to lock the door on my way out. Airbnb has a lot of issues that are currently being legislated in many locales due to abuse, reducing housing supply, and bypassing hotel regulations…But the original idea—of strangers sharing…
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Roadtrip Day 6: Kasson, Pipestone, and Sioux Falls
Wednesday, September 20, 2023Kasson, MinnesotaPipestone National Monument, Pipestone, South DakotaSioux Falls, South Dakota My first thought upon waking up in Rochester, MN was that I couldn’t wait to get out of town. There weren’t really even any non-chain coffee shops that I could find in the city, so I did a quick drivethrough pass of…
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Roadtrip Day 5: Taliesin, Effigy Mounds, Toppling Goliath, and Rochester
It may have only been day number 5 (of who knows how many to come), but I was already starting to question my pace. I felt right at home in Madison and wanted no more but to spend a few days here walking around more of the city between the two lakes and seeing what…
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Roadtrip Day 4: Indiana Dunes, Pullman, Rockford, and Madison
It had been a clear night, so I didn’t bother with the rainfly and was able to watch the stars through lightly shifting trees as I fell asleep. In fact I slept quite well…Until I was awoken at 4am by truck noise, since I-94 was only a mile away from the campground.
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Roadtrip Day 3: Toledo and Sunset at Indiana Dunes NP
This Sunday had a slow start. I spent most of the morning creating the Day 1 post while seated on an outdoor patio of a nice little coffee shop in Ohio City, Cleveland. A neurotic composer named Isaac who was dressed all in white was seated next to me writing a symphony in a nice,…
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Roadtrip Day 2: Cuyahoga Valley NP and Cleveland, OH
I had originally not given much thought to visiting National Parks, since the black & white part of my brain figured what would be the point if I couldn’t spend a week at every location, hiking every trail and seeing every sight? But thankfully my youngest sister, who has quite a bit of experience with…
