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Debbie's Log: After a good nights sleep in Albert Lee, we took off in the RAIN with Grandma and Grandpa Utpadel and headed to Blue Earth, MN for a stop at the Jolly Green Giant Statue. We arrived around 10:00AM. WOW this guy is tall. We took some great shots and toured the gift shop. It was...

permalink written by  Teambobcats on June 12, 2010 from Blue Earth, United States
from the travel blog: Mt. Rushmore, 2010



Smallest Church

Debbie's Log: so our Second Stop of day two brings us to Luverne, Mn to visit the Tiny Church. The rain kept falling and the longest drive of the day was entirely in the rain. I checked the radar on line and was glad to see that we were heading into the front so that by the time we reached...

permalink written by  Teambobcats on June 12, 2010 from Luverne, United States
from the travel blog: Mt. Rushmore, 2010



Third stop, day 2

Debbie's Log: Our third stop of the day brings us to Garretson, SD around 12:30 for a visit to Devils Gulch to see where Jesse James jumped to escape capture. The rain has stopped and the sun is out. WOW what a cool site. We walked the bridge across the site Jesse James jumped on his horse...

permalink written by  Teambobcats on June 12, 2010 from Garretson, United States
from the travel blog: Mt. Rushmore, 2010



Drawing the battle lines

Debbie's Blog: Our next stop brings us to Sioux Falls, SD to see the concrete outline of the USS South Dakota. The couldn't bring to entire ship into land locked SD so the only brought some parts and then laid a concrete outline of the ship to create a memorial to the ship. We geocached, of...

permalink written by  Teambobcats on June 12, 2010 from Sioux Falls, United States
from the travel blog: Mt. Rushmore, 2010



Scultures galore

gunners blog-It was sooooooo cool to see all of those diffrent kinds of scuptures and there was this one sulpture that was made of railroad plates that was a HUGE bull head and had real (and metal) bats on the outside and alot of scary stuff inside (like the devil, snakes, eyes, and...

permalink written by  Teambobcats on June 12, 2010 from Montrose, United States
from the travel blog: Mt. Rushmore, 2010



Corn Palace

Debbie's Blog: so we arrived at the famous Jackalope who no longer is a Jackalope. What do you call a Jackalope with no Antlers? A Rabbit? A Jackaless? Who knows. Anyway photo op taken, gnome got his too, and off to the corn palace. We arrived at the famous corn Palace a few minutes later...

permalink written by  Teambobcats on June 12, 2010 from Mitchell, United States
from the travel blog: Mt. Rushmore, 2010



Wow, thats a big Buffalo

Debbie's Blog: so this is actually the start of day three. We ended up spending too much time at the Corn Palace thus we did not do the Al's Oasis-Big Buffalo until the morning of June 13, 2010. We spent a cold, rainy, muddy night at the Cedar Shore Campground, which is right on the edge of the...

permalink written by  Teambobcats on June 12, 2010 from Oacoma, United States
from the travel blog: Mt. Rushmore, 2010



Day 1

Its is 5:00 PM the night before the big trip starts. Just picked up the RV and have it almost loaded. Debbie and Gunner posing next to our House for the next 10 days. Leaving Columbus at 5:00 AM so we can get a head start on the traffic.

permalink written by  Teambobcats on June 11, 2010 from Columbus, United States
from the travel blog: Mt. Rushmore, 2010



First Stop

First stop on our journey is in Iowa City, IA to visit the worlds largest wooden nickel. Approximate arrival time, 1:30 PM CST http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/18697 Departure time 2:00PM CST Just to send an update, we arrived an hour ahead of schedule, we think it was because we...

permalink written by  Teambobcats on June 11, 2010 from Iowa City, United States
from the travel blog: Mt. Rushmore, 2010



Tomorrow, it begins...

Pretty unreal. Tomorrow this thing actually kicks off. I'll be at the bar at 8:30 to watch the first game before coming home to do any final packing/cleaning items. Finally bought my US Jersey tonight, but I'm a little disappointed that the Nike store didn't have any with players names and...

permalink written by  nucappy on June 10, 2010 from Chicago, United States
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