There's something dramatic about the wide open plains but even more so when the sky beomes gray, eerie and lingers above your head, following you as you continue your drive west with nothing between you...
Rapid City is where the plains and the Black Hills meet. The stretch continues to present kitschy billboards for miles and small no-name motels with odd names like Lamplighter, Big Sky, Budget Host, Penny Motel,...
There are American diners and there are American diners….my idea of a charming American diner is Rosebuds in Davis Square (Somerville/Cambridge) just outside Boston. It is an original classic with a silver exterior, soft cushioned...
The end of the Badland’s dramatic views was not as much of a disappointment as it could have been if we didn’t have the Black Hills ahead of us. This mountainous area spreads across 8,000...
120 miles of so past the Badlands, the Black Hills, and flat prairies, a golf course suddenly emerged. More plains and then color sprung up on both sides of us just pass the Missouri River....
From Joe Jackson's Big World
Out to the west there's a trail that leads somewhere
And a call of the wild that takes some people there
Through Monument Valley to California sun
From New Amsterdam to the way the...
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