The road home

We are in Rockford visiting family and will be heading home Wednesday morning.

Thanks to everyone for following our epic adventure. Should be home sometime Friday.

Michael and Karen

Bluegill Mania

Went to Enemy Swim lake today for a team effort bluegill attack

Everybody is catching fish

One of the bluegill queens, Ms Kelsey.

Adam and Sushi Perch!

Team Bluegill

Bob and Deb Stroud, John and Kelsey Spontanske, Adam and Heather Spotanske, Karen and I.

Serious damage on Enemy Swim Lake !

The fish of the day, 25 3/4" Walleye, 7 lbs !!

Walleyes at Webster, South Dakota

The girls had a big time today catching all the big Walleyes.

Kelsey and Karen chasing Walleyes

First big one of the day!

Another good one,

One right after another

Heather with a beauty!

Not a bad day!

These girls can fish, but they had great teachers!

Gregory County, South Dakota

Back in South Dakota at the Tokarczyk Ranch

Making the turn on SD  HWY 1806. 

Can see the buildings on the horizon.

Acres of sunflowers

A great dinner Monday night with Al and Barb Nelson from Virginia, MN

Cigars and flyswatters on the veranda!

New Antlers for the hunting lodge, courtesy of Tom Powell from Riverton, WY.

Karen is cooking her pecan crusted fish for dinner with the Lubbers brothers.

Badlands National Park

Went through Badlands National park today. Absolutely awesome!

Saw buffalo, bighorn sheep, mule deer, antelope and even a coyote exiting a prairie dog town!

One of the many overlooks as you drive along the wall of the badlands

Mule deer

Bighorn sheep

Stay on the boardwalk!

The Badlands

And thousands of prairie dogs!

Oh, for a couple hundred rounds of .223's and a shooting bench!

Beautiful!

Nice landscape too!

Wall Drug, South Dakota

You can't go to western South Dakota without stopping at Wall Drug.

Stopped in Alzada, Montana for a Bloody Mary at the Stoneville Saloon. A popular watering hole between Billings and Sturgis.

Karen got a part time job in Wall, SD saddle breaking wild Jackalopes!

Tomorrow we head to Badlands National Park for the day.

Karen's big day on the Bighorn River

We fished the Bighorn River today and had a great day. Lots of fish and big ones too!

Browns and Rainbows galore!

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