First Stop

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Departure time 2:00PM CST

Just to send an update, we arrived an hour ahead of schedule, we think it was because we didn't take into account of the time change. That's a good thing. We were driving down the road to the nickel and didn't have a place to park on a really busy road. Drove past and tried to find an easy place to turn around a 25ft RV with traffic lined up behind us. Dad had a little melt down as his nerves were frayed from just driving 9 hours after only 4 hours of sleep. A nearby church gave us the room we needed so everyone said a prayer for dad and on we went to the wooden nickel. Good place to park heading the other way and the sign was much closer than we had imagined. Picture posted.
Debbie's Take on the visit- to the wooden nickel was way cool, however was a little leary of the active electric fence that was surrounding the nickel, and the fact that my 12 y/o kept throwing sticks at the fence to prove to me that it "was not active"- whatever!!! No find on the geocache at this sight so Randy was a bit put out since this was the "only" Iowa cache he had input into his gps!!! Luckily, we all have our laptops with us and he was able to locate a few more before we left the state. I took the wheel of the RV from this point and away we went to our next stop!!!

written by  Teambobcats on June 11, 2010 from Iowa City, United States
from the travel blog: Mt. Rushmore, 2010
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