Adventures of Tin Can Lulu

Rapid City is the second most populous city in South Dakota. It is famous as the “gateway” to the Black Hills and Mount Rushmore. We visited Ellsworth Air Force Base. Ellsworth is known as one of “The Showplaces of SAC (Strategic Air Command)” along with Minot AFB and Grand Forks AFB in…

Laramie was founded in the mid-1860s as a tent city near the Overland Stage Line route, the Union Pacific portion of the first transcontinental railroad, and just north of Fort Sanders army post. Laramie is home to the state’s, only land grant university, the University of Wyoming, founded in 1886. The University…

This trip was our third visit to the Black Hills of South Dakota and the second time our friends Mike and Sandy Fox, from California, meet us there. It’s a jammed pack time catching up, reminiscing about the old adventures and making new ones! We stayed at a wonderful campground…

The last stop in Colorado was Steamboat Springs. Just like Aspen, it is an upscale town but has a western flair to it. Founded in 1900, Steamboat Springs is a thriving, authentic city with its roots deeply planted in the American West. At 6,700 feet in the Rocky Mountains, this…