This was a great place to spend a week and catch my breath. I stayed with my dear friends Alan and Becky, who took good care of me. Shana Tova! Good Year! I have attended synagogue before, but this was my first time participating in the Jewish High Holy Days. Rosh...
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Occasionally on this trip I have been in a lovely park – national, state or city – and find out that there used to be big industrial goings-on in that very spot decades ago. Sioux Falls is an example of that, writ large. The falls were once dominated by...
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This is a mantra of mine always, but let me especially state it here. Always make sure you have a full tank of gas before you go into any National Park! It’s not that I learned that lesson the hard way here. It’s because Badlands is not be a place...
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I hadn’t been in a cave for a good looooong while, and I really loved it! Such a different landscape! Not so easy to photograph, however. Wind Cave has 127 miles of passages. In the summer, there are five types of tours from the easy to very strenuous. Since it was...
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I haven’t seen the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind since it came out in theaters (yes, that’s a clue about how old I am!) but now I want to see it again. There is a 1.3 mile walk around the base of the tower which is lovely. These photos are...
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