Road Trip #20 to Washington and Oregon is underway and the first stop from NC is Hocking Hills State Park in Ohio. This state park is easily one of our countries best. It is what geology is all about. The hiking is fantastic at all levels. Rained pretty much all weekend but that didn’t stop us. 

Hocking Hills State Park – one of the countries best State Parks

Hocking Hills State Park Campground site 55

Hocking Hills cascades

Hocking Hills – Great day of hiking!

Hocking Hills – Notloc heading to Old Man’s Cave

Hocking Hills – Nerak and Notloc on Old Man’s Cave Trail

Hocking Hills – another falls along the trail

Hocking Hills – Old Man’s Cave story

Hocking Hills – It is dark down there

Hocking Hills – one of many falls on a rainy day

Hocking Hills – rain enhanced falls

Hocking Hills – Shelter from the rain

Hocking Hills – Nerak at Ash Cave

Hocking Hills – Notloc at Conkles Hollow

Hocking Hills – Nerak and Notloc smiling

Well I have a news flash. The great state of Indiana has surpassed the great state of Louisiana for having the worst stretch of road in America for RV traveling. I can’t believe how bad I-70 is starting at the Ohio and Indiana border. Have any of the Indiana politicians driven on the highway? The patches and crappy repairs are worse than some of the sections that are craters and still in need of repair. Probably should have gone after some of that infrastructure money. 

Our next stop is the Amana Colonies in Iowa. It was a long, long drive. We are staying at the Amana RV Park and Event Center for two nights. It is a really nice, large, and spaced out campground. Surprisingly it is just about empty on this Monday and Tuesday in June. It will be interesting to see the campground occupancy rates on this road trip. Spent the day walking around Amana and putting all of my Antique Roadshow watching to good use. It is really pleasing on the eyes to see all of the gardens and flowers planted and blooming.

Amana RV Park & Event Center site F2

Amana empty on a June Tuesday morning

Good cup of coffee.

Nerak and Notloc heading downtown

Notloc likes those sheepskins

Ice Cream and Milkshake break!

We left Amana, Iowa and headed for Mitchell, South Dakota. It is a 432 mile drive day. Our destination is the KOA in Mitchell. We made a pit stop for gas at Wall Drug. A first class tourist trap. Should be up there near the top. KOA’s are always hit or miss, but the Mitchell KOA is very nice. The sites are spacious and the campground is very clean. Speaking of first class tourist traps, while we were in Mitchell, we felt we had to visit the Corn Palace. So we loaded up the truck and headed over to see what a corn palace is all about.

Wall Drug in South Dakota

Nerak and Notloc at Wall Drug

Colton with Lucy!

Notloc and Nerak at the Corn Palace

The Corn Palace Story

Mural of corn!

Notloc deep in the corn!

Cougar leaving Mitchell SD

It rained all night, which makes for great sleep in an RV, especially with the windows open. We had an early morning departure and headed for our next stop, which is 540 miles down the road, to 7th Ranch RV Camp in Garryowen, MT. This campground is right next to the Little Big Horn. Perfect spot if you are looking for some serious history from two different view points. We have visited the Little Big Horn previously, so we are just overnighting at 7th Ranch, which happens to be a beautiful campground. Spotless!

The Cougar at 7th Ranch RV Park

Morning departure 7th Ranch RV Park Garryowen MT

Heading for Missoula MT, to Jim and Mary’s RV Park!