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| Truck Museum in Iowa |
What an adventure we are on! On Saturday, March 29, we packed up the apartment in Illinois where we've been staying for the past month and we began our journey. Our first destination was only 2 hours away in a small town called Dixon. There is a wonderful church in Dixon that supports us and we enjoyed spending the weekend with them.
After church on Sunday we decided to drive for a few hours to get a bit of a "head start" on our travels. We found a fun place to stop in Iowa - the world's largest truck stop. And across the street was a Trucking Museum which the boys loved!
For this part of our journey we are staying in motels along the way. Once we reach Montana we will have friends to stay with all along the way for the rest of the journey. Don't the boys look so cozy all snug in a bed together?
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| There is so much to see in South Dakota |
We spent Monday night in a small corn town called Mitchell, South Dakota. The boys were thrilled to find that our hotel had an indoor water slide and mini water park.
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| Even Josh braved the water slide |
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| Going down on a double inner tube |
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| Isaac |
Today we drove another 4 1/2 hours to Mt. Rushmore. After doing home school in the van (not as easy as I'd expected), and stopping at the famous Wall Drug mini town, we arrived at Mt. Rushmore. The boys were thrilled. Sadly, it was a cold 21 degrees and snowing for part of the day but Mt. Rushmore was beautiful nonetheless.
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| Great memories in the making! |
We enjoyed the cool museum that explained how it was built and we watched a 12 minute movie in the theater that showed its construction.
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| A picture I will treasure! |
Every day has definitely been an adventure. We're all realizing how crazy this is to drive for hours every day, not know what we'll eat for our next meal or what bed we'll sleep in next, but it's been fun. Even when we hit challenges I remind myself that these are memories we'll fondly remember as a family.
