Wanna Help us?

By Lise.

Being on the road across a foreign country is a nice experience. And this experience becomes just awesome when it's time to interact with other people. So far we met a lot of wonderfull guys and always spent some real good moments with them. If, after...

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Fellow travellers

By Lise.

Fellow travellers we met during our trip Le Gaillard Galopère Claire & Alex We first met Claire and Alex online before our departures, and then we shared a meal in Montreal in mid august 2014. They drive a Toyota Land Cruiser HJ61 totally renewed, and...

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The US geographical center

By laurent_nc

Now let's go and discover another state, known for being home of great wilderness : Wyoming ! Don't forget that you can enlarge pictures by clicking.

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Crazy Horse, Mont Rushmore, Lead et Deadwood

By laurent_nc

The first stop after Wind Cave is Crazy Horse Monument. We will not see it from the inside but just from the nearby highway. This one is not finished, for two reason : it is hugely big, and it is not financed by public federal money. Second stop, still...

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Wind Cave National Park

By laurent_nc

This one will probably not stay in our top 10, but exploring one of the biggest cave network in the world is exciting enough to try the experience. So here we go for an one and a half hour ranger guided visit. The only natural entrance to the huge network...

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Custer state park: meet the bisons

By laurent_nc

Once a year, the buffalo roundup gather 1 400 bisons and not less than 14 000 curious. As the park is to small to feed so many bisons the park has to remove some of them and what was only a management measure is now a major event in South Dakota. 9.30...

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Badlands National Park

By Lise.

When you take the time to look around you realise that life is everywhere. Rodents (rabbits, mice, prairie dogs...), some predators (owls, coyotes...) and also some big herbivores (big horn sheeps, wapitis...). Some of them disturbed us that night : a...

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The Corn Palace

By Lise.

Our first stop in South Dakota is the Corn Palace in Mitchell. It's a kind of monument to celebrate corn. Everything is made of corn, from the building walls to the inside furniture. The building was first built in 1892 as a tourists attraction to bring...

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Wisconsin and Minnesota

By Lise.

Minnesota here we are ! Once again it's not a place we really planed to explore, no offence... The main interest as to visit another part of our US family. Doug, Joe's brother, lives close to Minneapolis .We will meet him and his family at a regular car...

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The UP : nature, nature and nature

By Lise.

After a little walk, we arrive at the lower falls viewpoint. Fist remarkable thing : the water is red brown, like mapple syrup.This is due to all the forest waste (mainly dead trees like ceidar and spruce) that forms the river bed. It's provides lots...

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