After a spectacular day in the Badlands, our next journey was fortunately not to far at less than an hour and a half to the Mt. Rushmore area. Our first stop of the day was of course Mt. Rushmore. As eluded in Part 1 of this trip report, our family received a free National Park…
The first leg of our families epic summer road trip to see National Parks started out not at a typical park at all. After a brief overnight stay near Chicago, our family made the trip up to Minnesota to visit Valleyfair amusement park and Mall of America to check out Nickelodeon Universe. Along the drive,…
Disneyland’s inherent problem in California is that they are landlocked and surrounded by area businesses right up against their front gates. However, for our family, that is one of the great appeals of visiting Disneyland and being able to walk across the street to get into a park. So there are lots of hotel options…