Comfort Cottage

Hello From South Dakota!

I'm writing to you from Badlands National Park.  We arrived the day before yesterday.  I took tons of pictures.  I'm not sure if I'll have time to post them today.  We had a violent thunderstorm yesterday, which is typical here.  The tent actually survived the storm.  We're seeing lots of wildlife.  Yesterday, we saw wild turkeys, a prong-horned antelope and frogs.  We're headed to Mount Rushmore and Custer State Park for the day.  I'll write again soon. 

 

Until next time,

Terri

We Made It To Iowa!!

Hi everyone!  I'm writing to you from Onawa, Iowa.  Iowa is one huge, continuous farm field on rolling hills!  When we got close to the campground, we saw a sign to tune to a radio station for disaster information.  "DISASTER?"  Sure enough, we turned on the radio in time to hear information about which roads were closed dued to the flooding.  Apparently, unusually heavy snows in the mountains resulted in the water level rising in the Missouri River.  As the snow melts, the ground water rises to the level of the river.  There were farm fields flooded everywhere in western Iowa.  Fortunately, the campground is above the flood table, but many areas all around us are affected.  

The camp site is beautiful.  We are on a lake across from Lewis and Clark State Park.

 

 

HOME SWEET HOME AWAY FROM HOME

 

We're going to take it on faith that the weather report is correct.  We're not supposed to have rain tonight.  We didn't put up the rain hood.

 

 

This is a late afternoon view of the lake.  I'm not sure about the quality of these photos, because I'm not using Photoshop.  Let me know what you think.

 

There is a beautiful arbor in the campground with my favorite variety of clematis.

 

It's getting late, so I'll have to say goodbye for now.  Tomorrow,  I'll be posting from Badlands National Park.  

 

Until next time,

Terri

 

 

 

On The Road Again

In an unexpected turn of events we were able to make a trip out west.  When our air conditioning went on the fritz last month, we had decided to cancel the trip.  Then, the van actually passed inspection  (Thank you, Lord!)  My hubby came home from running an errand on Saturday and said "Let's go out west.  We can leave tomorrow."  Being the dutiful wife, I said "Yes dear" and started packing.  I'm writing this to you from a hotel room in Illinois.  Today's destination: western Iowa.  We should make it to Souta Dakota early tomorrow. We'll be camping in Badlands National Park.  This is our first trip out west in seventeen years.  We used to go every year and I have missed having our adventures.  Our first trip to the Badlands was eventful to say the least.  A violent thunderstorm in the middle of the night decimated the campground, included our tent.  We ran for our lives  amidst a shower of hail stones the size of golf balls.  Ah, those were the good old days!  I hope to be able to share this year's adventures with you along the way.  If you don't hear from me, send out a posse :)  If all goes well, I should be able to post a few photos from the road.  Stay tuned for the adventures of Terri and Jerry in the American West.

 

Until next time,

Terri