A New Adventure - September 2024

     Jodi and I have been busy getting everything ready for our next adventure. We are loading the Pink Piggie and getting it ready for our trip starting 31AUG24. 

    We'll boondock somewhere in Alabama for our first night on our way to Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas. It's one of the few places in the world where the public is free to search for and keep natural diamonds. In a recent find a visitor from France found a 7.46 ct. wt. diamond (Visitor finds huge 7.46-carat diamond in Crater of Diamonds State Park | CNN). After a four days there we're headed to Golden CO for four days.

    Jodi has found a motorcycle ride from Golden CO that will take us to Breckenridge, Red Rocks and back to Golden through the Rockies. Then from there we're going to drive to Vernal, UT and stay for three days at Dinosaur National Park. This looks really cool and similar to the Bad Lands in SD that we stayed at last year. But with more fossils. From there we're going to make our way up to Montana.

    This trip we decided to Glacier National Park and stay for a few days. What not to love about that scenery? One of the things I'm looking forward to is a bike trip along Going to the Sun Road. As you can see from the map below it cuts right through the park and has some of the prettiest sights in the world.

Going to the Sun Road (red arrow points to road)

    After leaving Glacier National Park we are headed back down to Lewis and Clark Caverns State Park for a couple of days to explore. This is Montana's first and largest state park and gets its name from the limestone caverns that the Lewis and Clark expedition camped within sight of. After leaving the caverns we plan to head to Billings, MT and spend a few days exploring around there. Then down to Sheridan, WY to the KOA that we stayed at last year for a couple of more days before heading to Custer State Park in South Dakota. 

    Now if you go back to Jodi and I's motorcycle trip in 2020 to Mt. Rushmore, we went through Custer State Park. If you get a chance you should go back and read about our adventure then. So this time we thought we'd spend a bit more time exploring the area to see what else it has to offer.

    We don't have the last part of our trip planned out just yet and thought we'd wing it. We do know that we want to spend a few days in Memphis going to see the home of Elvis Presly, Graceland as well as Beal Street and to see if any of my old haunts at NATC Millington, NAS Memphis are still around. Then we thought we'd head down to Alabama to check on our property there before heading home. 

    So check back soon, as our adventure for 2024 starts and we see what interesting things we find this trip.