Welcome to South Dakota!!!

Well we did it! The Caribbean Adventures are over for now (hmmm, maybe I should figure out how to change the title on the blog?) and the Pickerel Lake, South Dakota Adventures are just beginning!!!

It’s been quite the trip though! We packed up our 250 pounds of stuff and our cats and caught a flight to New York City. We then drove to Syracuse, NY to spend two days with my parents, then headed to Buffalo for a Sunday night Lost and Found concert and got a chance to catch up with some of the most amazing people in the world!!! Monday morning we headed to LCLC to load up the kayaks – it took us an hour! And we were FREEZING!!!

After securing the kayaks to the tiny little roof of our GTI and catching up with the camp folk we hit the open road!!!

… Well not quite… we made a stop about a half hour down the road cuz our cell phone wasn’t working and we realized that I had forgotten to tighten the saddles to the roof rack so one of the kayaks was not on so well (don’ t worry Olivia…. It wasn’t yours, he was nice and snug!)

We drove all night and after about 22 hours we pulled up to Lando’s family cabin. It’s so beautiful here! There is no one around! People in St. Thomas think that life is slow paced in the islands…. But they have no clue! … they have never been to rural South Dakota!




Our jobs are great! It’s so awesome working with cool friendly people who don’t treat you like you are a simple-minded 4-year-old!!! We are only working part time at the Pickerel Lake lodge… so we have plenty of time to kayak, exercise, eat healthy, and best of all, hang out with family (which yesterday included watching Lando’s brother, Dillon – who’s a real cowboy – ride a BULL!!! I was pretty excited and scared to death!

So life is good, but Internet access is limited, so we may not be posting stuff too often. But our adventures for the summer look something like this.

June 22-26th: Heading to the Black Hills to visit family and Mt. Rushmore (I’ve never been)

July 7th/8th: Heading to Minneapolis to see a play, a Guster concert and visit the Mall of America (again, I’ve never been)

August 12th & random surrounding dates: A visit back to New York to include hopefully a visit to LCLC, a Counting Crows concert in PA and my brother’s wedding!

After that, who knows????? We have a job interview on the 10th of J
une for a gig in Arizona… and we’ll be exploring during the summer, so who knows where the next adventure will be, but we’ll keep you posted!