South Dakota – Fired & Free

Mount Rushmore and the Border Blizzard

We weren’t super excited to see Mount Rushmore, thinking it was a “manufactured” National Park. We were wrong. Mount Rushmore was crazy cool and impressive. The sculptor who pulled off the feat of putting presidential faces in granite deserves an award for tourism creation ingenuity. North Dakota what are you waiting for!? Time for another […]

Homesteaders were nuts

Remember that scene in Far and Away, the Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman movie, where Cruise gets all excited after putting his stake in the ground to claim his land out West? That movie wasn’t very good, so you probably don’t remember, but trust me when I tell you that he was a homesteader. If […]

There’s a reason no one lives in South Dakota

Usually, I don’t like to offend people and bust on the state that they’re from. However, no one is from South Dakota so I’m pretty sure that I’m not offending anyone reading this blog. The reason no one lives in South Dakota is because it is nearly impossible to get to. The drive from Madison, […]