After a spirit-lifting custom breakfast omelet we hit the road on day 4 with a big decision to make. Our schedule had a built-in additional travel day cushion, so we had a choice of two relatively easy days of motoring or one very long day on the road to get home....
We had developed a routine by day 3 of our return trip, rising as early as possible, grabbing a quick breakfast in the hotel, loading our stuff into the car and taking off on our next leg. However, this day would add a new wrinkle. We were going to deviate from our...
Our strategy to get as close to the Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse monuments as possible on our first travel day left us in Sioux Falls, SD, Sunday night, which was still 371 miles, or over 5 hours of driving time away. We killed the original itinerary that would have...
The big Homecoming car show and Saturday evening’s festivities were completed, so on Sunday morning we elected to head for home rather than return to Hickory Corners for another day of car shows, photos and a parade around the grounds. After a quick...
The eighth annual Lincoln Homecoming at the Lincoln Motor Car Heritage Museum began with a full day of activity starting with staging at the Gilmore property at HIckory Corners of a caravan for a scenic drive, followed by the 75-minute diving tour, winery visit with...
Day 4 of our epic journey was planned as the shortest of our outbound trip. But because we fell shy of our planned stopping points on days 2 and 3, it turned out to be the longest of the four legs covering more than 600 miles. The graphic below pretty much tells the...
