Odyssey 3- Beautiful Badlands
Faribault – Fairmont
160 miles
August 1, 1976
We’re doing it! A new month in our new life.
This morning before we left we took a swim at 10:00. It felt good. Today we have a nice campground and have a lot of stuff to do also. There’s a lake where Todd went swimming in. It was too dirty for us.
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Fairmont – Mitchel, South Dakota
195 miles
August 2, 1976
When we got to Mitchel we went swimming and then we called Kubik’s. We went to eat and we visited the Corn Palace. It’s decorated with corn and grains on the outside. At night we saw it all lite up.
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Mitchel – Kennenbec
95 miles
August 3, 1976
Today we stayed at a K.O.A. It was very wind. I helped mom wash the clothes and also played pinball. We went swimming but came back in 5 or 10 minutes. It was cold. Todd gave me a trophy Worlds Greatest Card Player after we played War.
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Kennenbec – Badlands
100 miles
August 4, 1976
Today we got to the Beautiful Bad-lands. We went on a fossil walk and a nature hike that was guided and also found fossils, but we can’t keep them. We were going to go on a 6 A.M. nature hike, but last night it poured so we didn’t.