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A small portion of Horicon Marsh, Wisconsin. The vastness of this place just didn't transfer well in my photos. This was my first time at the marsh and it is amazing even though it was mostly frozen over with only a few birds. I will return in spring when the migratory birds come through...

Gibraltar Rock, Wisconsin. Parfrey's Glen, Wisconsin.

Frozen marsh at Lapham Peak SP, Wisconsin.

Unfortunately nearly all of the sandhill region of Nebraska is privately owned. There are some national wildlife refuges up near Valentine, NE and 2 national forest tracts but for the most part it's no trespassing. At the western edge of the state there is Fort Robinson State Park which has a...

This morning at Glacial Park, Illinois.

Kettle bogs along the John Muir Trails, Wisconsin.

Wyalusing State Park, Wisconsin. Barge on the Mississippi River from the bluffs at Effigy Mounds National Monument, Iowa. The forest along the Mississippi River, Iowa.

Nice report. It's neat to see someone else travelling in an older vehicle. I like the pictures of the old churches. There is another really good one, an old Catholic church, in Petersburg, Iowa. The town sits on an intersection of 2 county roads and has something like 200 residents, but that...

Thank you. I am glad you liked it.

In Conclusion The grandeur of the mountains, solitary remoteness of the western deserts, and never-ending sky of the Great Plains will never cease to move me. These places are all special and I am grateful to have the opportunity to visit them. However, their beauty is usually accompanied by...

9-18-19 At 5:00 AM I decide I've had enough of this crappy hotel and gather my things back into the VW. The car is still there and it appears nobody messed with it, which is a relief. I am so eager to leave this place behind me that I don't even check the engine's oil level. I just fire the...

9-17-19 Once again I start my day early, around 5:30 AM. I check the gear lube in the transaxle and am pleased to find that barely any fluid at all is required to bring it to the proper level. A great way to start the day. I leave Laramie at 6:15 as the eastern horizon is beginning to glow...

9-16-19 I wake up at 5:00 AM this morning, ready to get outside to check the transaxle's fluid level after a week of leaking. The parking lot at the hotel slopes down toward the middle aisle from both sides, and to properly check the transaxle lube, the car needs to be sitting level. So I put...

Yeah Highway 50 in Nevada is definitely desolate but I was never bored, though its hard to be bored while working to suppress the worst case breakdown scenarios that picked at my brain periodically while admiring this sparse area. At blanketslayer and barongan, thanks for the compliments. I am...

Thanks. I'll need to have some more travels first though. I don't get as excited about road trips as I did 10 years ago. I used to be pumped to go anywhere, and happily threw an air mattress in the back of my GMC Safari and travelled cross-country. The past few years though, I have much...

Thank you all so much for the compliments. I am glad you are enjoying reading my report as much as am enjoying writing it. I do have a love of the often mocked midwestern states. They have some really neat places hidden away for those who look. I still have a few more entries to complete...

9-15-19 Well the wedding is over and after three nights of staying up way too late, two days of catching up with a couple of people I haven't seen for six years, and meeting a few new ones, it is time to say goodbye to California. It was good to see Nick again, and even though we hadn't been...

Ha! you're right. Too many highways and numbers. I was bound to get mixed up. Changed it. Thanks.

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Looking through some of my old pictures from my 2013 trip to CA in the bug I discovered an amusing near duplicate from Nevada taken six years and 50,000 miles apart. Some things may change but some just stay the same. 2013 2019