We are SO happy to announce we have accepted a job from this May to October, just outside of Hill City, South Dakota! We have never visited this state, my closest is Wyoming and Steve's is Colorado. We were contacted by the owner, and after a phone interview, hired to help run his small RV park and nearby marina on Lake Sheridan. The town has an interesting history, and used to be known as "a town with a church on each end and a mile of Hell in between."
I know some of you are thinking..."Man, South Dakota is FAR." ...So are we.
We have decided to break up the trip into three legs so make it a bit easier and plan on only traveling around 200 miles per day. Everything in RV life seems to take about four times as long as we imagine, so leaving ample travel time is key to our sanity.
We have already completed the first leg of our journey, about 500 miles, back to Tallahassee. This is where we will be camped out on my dad's property for a week or two. We need to see our friends and family before we leave for a few years, and we will also have a couple of small projects to tackle while we are able to have covered parking and access to tools.
We stopped in Cape Coral and St. Petersburg on the trip up to visit friends. We had our fill of delicious ice cream when we stayed at Ice SSSScreaming in Cape Coral. It is owned by a good friend of ours, you should stop in if you are ever in the area. Robert's RV Park, where we stayed in St. Pete was much less delicious, but it was nice to meet some other RVers.
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| Our two night home in Cape Coral, Fl. Boondocking behind Mike's Ice Cream Shop. |
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| Taking the Sheep over the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. A detour I highly recommend. |
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| Robert's RV Park in St. Petersburg, FL. |
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| So good to be back under the trees. -Roberts RV Park |
Around the beginning of April we will leave Tallahassee for Northwest Arkansas, where I have some family. This second leg of the journey will be about 900 miles. Again we will take it easy on the drive up, stopping frequently at Walmart's or other free camping destinations. We are also thinking on staying a night or two in Holly Springs, Mississippi where there is a nearby campground, Wall Doxey State Park. The town itself is known for its antebellum houses and Southern charm.
After a couple of weeks in Arkansas, around the end of April, we plan to begin heading to South Dakota. This leg of the trip will be the longest, at almost 1000 miles. At this point I haven't looked at much that lies en route, but we are keeping our ears open for can't miss stops along the way. We will see how things pan out. We like to live by chance a little and just see what fate brings us. It is usually pretty awesome.
Maybe I will post our route, and if anyone knows of anything we can't miss along the way they can let us know!
Peace and Love,
Nicole and Steve
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