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Roadtrip Stop #5: The World’s ONLY Corn Palace

The best part of Friday (Aug 11) was AC’s unscheduled pit stop at the one and only Corn Palace in Mitchell, SD! AC saw billboards from the highway and, as you should when you pass signs for “the world’s only [anything]”, knew that we had to take a quick detour to see this gem. The Corn Palace was wonderfully gaudy! It’s a combination of corn history museum and multi-purpose arena. The arena part can host…

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Roadtrip Stop #4: Dutch Ovens…Not the Farting Kind

Kicking Off Yesterday, we made our way from St. Louis, MO to Sioux Falls, SD. Since our bodies were still on eastern time, we were up nice and early. We cooked some of the fresh eggs from our Hipcamp hosts, then we packed up and hit the road again. The drive was fairly uneventful. We did swing through Kansas City and grab photos with a couple fun murals and accidentally took a short detour into…

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Roadtrip Stops #2 & 3: Louisville and St. Louis

Louisville The adventure continues! The longest legs of our trip took us from Washington, DC to Louisville, KY to St. Louis, MO. We got to Louisville pretty late, but we still made pit stops at Churchill Downs and the Louisville Slugger Museum to snap some quick pics. We grabbed dinner on Whiskey Row where AC enjoyed Louisville’s signature drink (and one of her favorites), an Old Fashioned. For desert, we did some dusky scooting around…

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Roadtrip Stop #1: Washington, DC

TL:DR We began our grand adventure on Sunday and our first stop was two nights in Washington, DC. Was this stop out of the way? A bit. Did we have tickets to see P!nk in concert in DC? We sure did! I’ve been wanting to see P!nk in concert for years and AC surprised me with tickets last Christmas. That show was everything I hoped for and more! Details are coming, I promise, but first……

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Road Trip!

AC has finished the itinerary for our road trip from the east coast of the USA to the west coast of Canada and we leave in 3 days! I’m sure you all are dying to know more about our route (or at least my mom is). Here you go! I’m not going to share full details now for safety purposes. But I will post an update on each stop–including where we were and what we…

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