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Day 108 Custer State Park, SD

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We have travelled about 1500 miles since leaving my brother’s house in Sedro-Woolley, WA.  I have not had a good enough wi-fi connection to even open the blog so I am currently writing in Word to transfer to the blog. Hopefully, I can post it tomorrow night in Sioux City, IA.  We are presently camped in Custer State Park south of Rapid City, SD.  From Sedro-Woolley, WA, we went to Tacoma, WA, only 112 miles, to visit Jeannette’s sister, Judy.  We were able to celebrate Judy’s daughter, Eliza’s, birthday and had a couple of quiet days before heading on to meet up with one of Jeannette’s nursing school classmates who lives in Toledo, WA.  We spent the night just east of there, 71 miles for the day.  Monday morning, a week ago, we went to the Mount St. Helens Visitors Center.  Though it was a partly cloudy day, we had some breaks that showed us the mountain in all its grandeur.  It is amazing that the effects of the eruption 37 years ago are still so visible and to learn how the differ