Follow the adventures of Andrea and Randy Goodell as they retire, leave the Rat Race, move to Tomar, Portugal, and continue to explore the world.
July 19 – 23, 2020 We spent our last couple of days at Theodore Roosevelt National Park exploring the different areas of the park and enjoying the diversity of the area. One item we were interested in was the Petrified Forest area. This area was supposed to contain the petrified remains of a forest from …
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July 16 – 21, 2020 As mentioned in a previous post, Crawfordville NE – Fort Robinson State Park; we have been really excited about seeing the Comet Neowise as it takes it’s once every 7,000 year journey around Earth. In Nebraska we got good looks at it for 2 days. We were able to see …
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July 19 – 23,2020 We continue heading straight west in North Dakota from Fargo to arrive in Medora, ND, which is at the southern entrance to the Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Teddy Roosevelt spent a lot of time in this area in his youth and really loved it. In 1947 President Harry Truman created the …
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July 18, 2020 After Pipestone, MN we head west and then north to get to Fargo, ND. Most everyone knows this city from the movie of the same name. We headed here because of the movie and it was a close location inside North Dakota to pick up another state sticker on the map on …
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July 17, 2020 In order to continue our quest to fill in the state sections of our map on the back of Tin Tin (our RV) we next headed to the great state of Minnesota. We decided on the town of Pipestone as it would accomplish two items we are pursuing. One is to fill …
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July 15 – 17, 2020 We left Cody, Wy and headed back east for a bit. While that may seem a little odd, as we have been west pretty much for the last month, there is a reason. A very simple reason. We are traveling in Tin Tin (our RV). Last year we bought one …
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July 14,2020 We have been in Cody, WY for the past 3 days. We have gone to Yellowstone National Park, seen Old Faithful, seen a rodeo, and lost a day because of rain. So, it was time to explore the town of Cody a bit. The town of Cody is the creation of Buffalo Bill …
July 12 – 15, 2020 We are still heading west in Tin Tin (our 24 foot Coachman RV) further into Wyoming. We have set our sights on visiting Yellowstone National Park and all the wonders that it contains (or at least as many as we can get to). The summertime is peak tourist season for …
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July 8 – 11, 2020 So, what the heck is Devil’s Tower you may ask. Well, remember the movie by Steven Speilberg “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”? Remember Richard Dreyfuss sculpting the mountain out of mashed potatoes at the family dinner table? Well, that was Devil’s Tower in Wyoming. As Andrea and I were …
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July 8, 2020 After our great day in the Badlands National Park, it is time to keep heading west off I-90 in South Dakota. Our ultimate goal for the day is to reach the Devil’s Tower National Monument in Devil’s Tower, Wyoming. However, along the way are two major sights to see; Mount Rushmore and …
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Andrea and Randy Goodell explore Europe, Asia, United States, the Caribbean, and then move to Portugal!