Beating the storm
What a weekend! I feel like I am paying for some horrible sins – perhaps the sin of not liking South Dakota OR maybe it is the curse that people who never understood put on my exit from South Dakota. As with all experiences of this type, you do learn. The best thing I learned – something I did already know but was reminded of this weekend, is that my daughter Bethany is amazing. I don’t know anyone else, family or otherwise, who would sacrifice and do what she did for us this weekend. We had a grueling trip to South Dakota and back. We out beat the blizzard that dumped 11 inches on Brookings SD. We spent about 62 hours on the road covering about 2000 miles. In between the hours and hours in the car, and the little bit of sleep, we packed our two bedroom apartment in South Dakota and loaded it on a truck and trailer. To say that she and her family did 95% of the work is no exaggeration. We stopp...