Category: Central Plains
Central Plains Colorado Idaho Missouri Montana Mountain West Oregon Pacific Northwest Trip Planning Utah Washington WyomingTrip planning: Big Trip #4 – fall in the Northern Rockies, including Canada
This post is part of our pre-trip planning for our big trip in Fall 2022. HERE IS OUR POST-TRIP RETROSPECTIVE! [We’ve updated the plan since this post and our route looks pretty different now!] We are freshly home from our last trip and are itching to get back out there, so we’re thrilled to be…
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One night in Joplin, MO–Big Trip #3
We visited Joplin in October 2020, as part of Big Trip #3. Joplin is a medium-sized town on Route 66 near the interstate. Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Bonnie and Clyde hid out there, and Janis Joplin is unaffiliated with it. We chose it as a stopover for convenience, Route 66 history, and the fact…
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One night in Dodge City, KS–Big Trip #3
We visited Dodge City in October 2020, as part of Big Trip #3. After leaving Denver, we started hightailing it across the Midwest toward home, picking kind of random places to spend our next two nights. First stop: Dodge City, Kansas, a six-hour drive southeast from Denver. We knew of it as a Wild West town,…
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Central Plains Colorado Destinations Kansas Missouri Mountain West North Carolina Southeast Tennessee Trip PlanningBig Trip #3 Catch-up #3
We’re home! I’m going to get all the posts up eventually–my computer is only working intermittently, so I have a new excuse for being slow to post–but wanted to catch you up on our last several stops as we popped around Colorado and then hopped back across the country toward home. (Here are catch-up #1…
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One night in Charles City, IA–Big Trip #3
We visited Charles City in August 2020, as part of Big Trip #3. We were driving from Indianapolis to Fargo on Big Trip #3, and didn’t want to kill ourselves with a long haul. Where should we stop? Well I have first cousins once removed (I always need to refer to a chart) in Charles…
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One day in St Francis, KS–Big Trip #2
We were in St Francis in October 2018 as part of Big Trip #2. Omaha to Denver is a long haul, and we wanted to get to Denver early in the day to avoid Friday afternoon traffic, so we needed an overnight stop. In the interest of getting Bugsy a new state (me too, actually!),…
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One day in Omaha, NE–Big Trip #2
We were in Omaha in October 2018 as part of Big Trip #2. We were in Kansas City, headed for Denver, so it seemed the logical next stop was Omaha. Neither of us knew much about the city, other than the College World Series is held there (because we come from a school that won…
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One day in Kansas City, MO–Big Trip #2
We were in Kansas City in October 2018 as part of Big Trip #2. Technically, we were here two nights and one day, if you’re wondering how we managed to cram in so much alcohol consumption. Overall, we found Kansas City to be interesting aesthetically, but we were turned off by all the closed storefronts…
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Four days in St Louis, MO–Big Bend Loop
We visited St Louis in January 2018 as part of our Big Bend Loop trip. St Louis isn’t somewhere we’d ever talked about visiting. All I really knew about it was that the Arch is there. But while researching this trip’s itinerary, J discovered that St Louis is one of the rare big cities that has…
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Two days in Branson, MO–Big Bend Loop
We visited Branson in January 2018 as part of our Big Bend Loop trip. Branson wasn’t on our initial itinerary for this trip, and then the NYT’s list of 52 Places to Go in 2018 was released–and Branson’s on the list! It’s on the way from Medicine Park to St Louis, and the route from Branson…
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