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Day 16 - Drive Home and Recap
Hard to believe that Saturday was our 16th day out on the road. We had a long drive ahead of us, but we were all excited to get back...
mearsbenjamin
Aug 4, 20245 min read
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Days 14 and 15 - St. Louis
Our last stop on the trip before heading home to Cleveland was St. Louis. We pulled out of Tulsa nice and early on Thursday morning and...
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Aug 4, 20245 min read
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Days 12 and 13 - Amarillo and Tulsa
We are starting to make our way home and to break up the extensive driving we are going to make a couple extra stops along the way. The...
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Aug 1, 20247 min read
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Day 11 - Great Sand Dunes and New Mexico
On Monday we were leaving Colorado and heading south to New Mexico. Along the way we were going to stop at the Great Sand Dunes National...
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Jul 30, 20246 min read
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Day 10 - Garden of the Gods
We had three nights in Colorado Springs which means we had two full days. There was a lot of stuff we wanted to see here, but we were...
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Jul 30, 20243 min read
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Day 9 - Pikes Peak
Today we were headed up to Pikes Peak, which is something I have been very excited to do. You can get to Pikes Peak a few ways: driving...
mearsbenjamin
Jul 28, 20246 min read
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Day 8 - Drive to Colorado Springs
Friday was a drive day as we were done in Estes Park and heading down to Colorado Springs. The drive to Colorado Springs from Estes Park...
mearsbenjamin
Jul 27, 20245 min read
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Days 6 and 7 - Rocky Mountain National Park
I'm falling behind on blog posts, and with over a week left on our trip I can't afford to do that. So I am combining both days in the...
mearsbenjamin
Jul 26, 20245 min read
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Day 5 - Drive to Estes Park, CO
On Tuesday we were off for Colorado. We packed up early and left the campsite by 6:15am. Looking back on them, these early morning...
mearsbenjamin
Jul 24, 20244 min read
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Day 4 - Mount Rushmore and Black Hills
Monday was our most exciting day yet on the trip as we had a number of cool things planned. It was really tough to filter through all our...
mearsbenjamin
Jul 24, 20246 min read
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Day 3 - Badlands National Park
After two days of extensive driving we were finally in good shape to spend most of a day seeing some main sites. The first one was...
mearsbenjamin
Jul 22, 20244 min read
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Day 2 - Drive to South Dakota
After a long day of driving we made it to our campground in Kennebec, SD. The total drive time today was the same as yesterday which was...
mearsbenjamin
Jul 21, 20244 min read
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Day 1 - Drive to Wisconsin
Day 1 is in the books, and it has been pretty successful. There was some whining and crying here and there, but given how much time we...
mearsbenjamin
Jul 19, 20243 min read
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Prepping to Leave
After a long day a packing, we are ready to shove off bright and early tomorrow. This is the biggest trip we've taken, and thus it's by...
mearsbenjamin
Jul 18, 20242 min read
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Planning Our Trip
After several made, and then unmade, plans to go out west this year, we are now committed and leaving next week. Going on trips out west...
mearsbenjamin
Jul 9, 20243 min read
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How KeepQuietBackThere.com Died
Enough time has passed that I can now comfortably talk about the end of KeepQuietBackThere.com (KQBT). KQBT was a website I put together...
mearsbenjamin
Jul 8, 20244 min read
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