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| GREAT AMERICAN ROAD TRIP - Our vacation in the summer of 2002. We started in Fort Worth, Texas and drove over 4000 miles, stopping to see the sights in South Dakota, Wyoming and Colorado. We left our baby boys with Grandpa and Grandma, and allowed Dani to invite 2 friends on our trip. We had a blast! Here are the 60+ scrapbook pages detailing every mile. |
Date(s): June 25 - July 8, 2002. Album by Stacy Kocur. 1 - 15 of 62 Total. 263 Visits. |
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You did such a great job. Thanks for sharing the album with all of us. After looking at the album, you make me want to go there. Looks like you and your family had a great time. Thanks again for sharing and you did a great job.
- pam, Fri, 23 Apr 2004 1:24PM |
Great Job!! I love what you have done with the trip. Looks like everyone had a great time.
- Jenny, Sun, 27 Oct 2002 7:23PM |
thank you for allowing me to look at your pages.
- Patricia, Fri, 25 Oct 2002 12:09PM |
Great Job! My son just took almost the same trip with my sister and I had no idea how to put his album together. I DO NOW!!!!
- Tia, Wed, 25 Sep 2002 6:44PM |
Wow! This is so cool that you put your whole album on computer!!! You know you are the best scrapper ever! Oh, and the trip looks absolutely incredible too! What a treasured memory...forever.
- Gayla, Wed, 25 Sep 2002 10:54AM |
Feels like I was there with you! Great job.
- Kitty, Tue, 24 Sep 2002 7:13AM |
What fun it was to see places I have been also, and to watch the slideshow! great album...and wonderful detail!!!!
- NHKaye, Fri, 13 Sep 2002 5:09PM |
Great album, Stacy! Thanks for sharing it with us.
- mom2abcd, Thu, 12 Sep 2002 7:27AM |
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TITLE
Here's the title page - borrowed a friends Sizzix system to do the letters. We took a photo of the "Welcome" sign every time we entered a new state, and our route is drawn on the map with silver pen.
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itinerary
I love spontaneity, but for this trip, were were tightly bound by two things: time and budget! So we made a strict itinerary and stuck to it like glue. Otherwise, we would've run out of money before we got home, and we wouldn't have seen so much stuff. There was also some comfort for the parents of DDs 2 friends in knowing what their kiddos were up to each day!
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License Plate Game
One of the road games we played was the License Plate Game - only instead of just spotting them, we took pictures of them. We got 46 of the states plus D.C. We saw 2 Hawaiis, but were driving both times and couldn't snap a photo. We saw lots of Iowas, but for some reason never took a picture! Still trying to figure that one out. Never saw a single Delaware or Rhode Island....
Can you believe how crammed we were in the van? We unloaded the boys and their stuff at my parents' house in Oklahoma, so after that we had a little more breathing space!
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Carhenge (left)
After 14 hours on the road, we REALLY needed a diversion. That's exactly why we planned our route to bypass Carhenge in Nebraska! It's an exact replica of Stonehenge - down to the placement and size of the cars. Up the hill from Carhenge is another group of car art - the car the kids are signing is the "Auto Graph". Pretty quirky - it's this kind of stuff that makes us love Road Trips!
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Carhenge (right)
Carhenge was erected in 1987 at a family reunion as a memorial to the artist's deceased father. 38 cars were places to assume the same proportions as Stonehenge with the circle measuring approximately 96 feet in diameter. Some autos are held upright in pits 5 feet deep, trunks down. The cars that form the arches are welded in place. All are covered with gray spray paint.
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Rest Area in Nebraska
The "Rest Area" at the top on Hwy 87 in Nebraska cracked us up! It was an old toilet and a nasty recliner sitting on top of some hay bales! Once in South Dakota, we made Hot Springs our home base.
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Hot Springs
Th Sojourner Inn was wonderful. The kitchen was fully equipped, right down to an ice cream scoop and a cookie sheet! There were two bedrooms (the girls slept on the bottom double bunk and Michael on the top bunk), and a living room with recliners and a couch. It really was like a home away from home!
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Wind Cave L
Wind Cave is unlike any other cave you've ever been to because it doesn't have stalagtites and stalagmites. Instead, the cave is covered in "popcorn" and "boxwork". In fact, it contains 95% of all the boxwork in the world!
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Wind Cave R
Wind Cave gets its name from the wind that blows out of the natural entrance. It felt like air conditioning! It was 106 degrees that day and the air blowing out was about 58!!
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Crazy Horse L
The Crazy Horse Memorial is breathtaking. Only the face of Crazy Horse has been completed, and work is underway on the horse's head. I cannot imagine how huge it will be!! The face of Crazy Horse alone is over 87 feet tall!
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Crazy Horse R
It'll be neat someday to say, "I was there when only the face was carved." We each picked a blast fragment to take home as a souvenir.
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Rushmore L
Mt. Rushmore was the reason we went to South Dakota in the first place, and it didn't disappoint. We were there in the afternoon and were pretty tired after a full day of sightseeing!
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Rushmore R
This "shaker box" was inspired by Jean in Tx. The page tells about the sculptor, the details and some interesting facts about Rushmore.
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Faces L
There's a "strenuous" trail you can take to the base of the mountain that provides a close-up view of the faces. We descended 160 steps only to discover another 160 going back up! I was so totally, completely, WORN OUT. Then, when we finally got there, we discovered that there's another trail with NO steps, built to accomodate the handicapped. I could have cried!
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Faces R
There's a small cave along the Presidential Trail that affords a neat view of Lincoln and Washington. If you go to Rushmore, definitely take the trail, and DEFINITELY look for the handicapped one!
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