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Needles Highway (South Dakota) – In Another Minute (Week 252)

Needles Highway is the most impressive road that I have driven on – so far. Located in Custer State Park, along South Dakota Highway 87, Needles Highway is part of the Peter Norbeck…

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Garden of the Gods – In A Colorado Minute (Week 250)

For the 250th week of the Moving Postcard web series, Scott and I visited the Garden of the Gods Park in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The park, which is free to the public, is…

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St. Augustine (Florida) – In Another Minute (Week 248)

St. Augustine in Northeast Florida is considered the nation’s oldest city, having been established in 1565 by Spanish settlers. In September 2015, the celebrations of St. Augustine’s 450th anniversary will start in earnest….

Crazy Horse Memorial (South Dakota) – In Another Minute (Week 247)

Crazy Horse Memorial, near Custer, South Dakota, is a huge work-in-progress mountain sculpture of Oglala Lakota warrior Crazy Horse… riding a horse. A similar creative endeavor to the four presidents’ faces on Mount Rushmore…

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Mount Rushmore (South Dakota) – In Another Minute (Week 246)

Mount Rushmore, in the Black Hills of South Dakota, features the faces of four United States presidents (George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln) carved into the granite of the mountain….

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Swetsville Zoo – In A Colorado Minute (Week 194)

American Roadside Attractions – something about them is quite mystical. They evoke the image of America as an adventure land without borders, crisscrossed by long highways, strewn with fascinating characters on and off…

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Peak-to-Peak Highway – In A Colorado Minute (Week 234)

The Peak-to-Peak Highway in Colorado is the oldest Scenic Byway in the United States of America, established in 1918. That’s quite a claim. So I was thrilled for us to take this drive…

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Roadside Attractions in Fort Collins – In A Colorado Minute (Week 199)

When I posted the video Swetsville Zoo – In A Colorado Minute (Week 194), I already wrote about my fascination with roadside attractions. In my quest to visit, film and share with you…

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