September 2011
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America’s Best in Wall, South Dakota
We arrived too late when we hit Wall. We drove this afternoon from Sioux Falls to Mitchell to Wall near the Badlands, pretty much the length of S. Dakota. We even crossed another timeline. But it was too late. The shops were closing, the sun was setting. The famous Wall Drug Store that we’d read about on multiple billboards for 300 miles (Wall Donuts, Best in...
You can’t get lost in America
After we left Chicago on Friday, Sept 23, we drove through Wisconsin, as well as Minnesota and South Dakota. When my granny was on her road trip in 1957 in her Chevrolet, she and my dad and aunt met a family from Florida who were driving all the way to Alaska. They met them at a campsite, and the family suggested granny go see some church in Wisconsin made of cut...
It's Nice To Meet You, Granny
My first day of driving was an interesting one. There were a number of moments on the road I felt my granny with me. As I left New York City, driving over the George Washington Bridge, tears streamed down my face. I thought of my grandmother and how my grandfather assumed she would turn back on that bridge and go home, giving up on her dream to cross the country and see the wild American west. But...
