We've all seen the Eiffel Tower in photos and film. The grand industrial-engineering-art project is so familiar that we might be tempted to think seeing the Tower in person could be a let down. We would be wrong. I spent…
Posts tagged as “travel”
Did I mention I'm in Paris? Here I am at the Louvre, with our guy Pei's great glass pyramid out front. The drastic contrast the the architecture of the old fortress still doesn't well with some observers. But it creates…
Here's a question for my friends in Pierre: would you like to buy your neighbor a plane ticket? It's obvious a lot of you Pierre readers don't buy plane tickets for yourselves. Delta Airlines considers Pierre an "underperforming market" and…
I have now been to the top of all three "jewels" in the crown of "Queen City" Spearfish. First Lookout Mountain to the east last month, much closer to my front door than it was to Ezra Kind's before he…
All sorts of South Dakota politicos are swarming the Black Hills this weekend for Monday's big buffalo round-up at Custer State Park. (Funniest photo-Tweet so far: Daugaard aide Tony Venhuizen comments on Lt. Gov. Michels's encounter with a donkey.) Alas,…
Living in Spearfish is cool not just because Spearfish is cool but because it's so close to so much cool stuff. Yesterday we piled into the Bug and drove 62 miles on Old U.S. 14 and Wyoming 24 to see…
Ah, self-reliance... Black Hills Airport/Clyde Ice Field has received enough funding to complete a parallel taxiway that will stretch the full length of the runway. The airport was given a $3.15 million federal grant from the Federal Aviation Administration for…
Another weekend, another few fine hours out on the open road. Before it rained Saturday, I got out to see Old Highway 14 west of Spearfish. Roads with "Old" in their name get automatic bonus points. Belle Fourche is out…