A good beginning!

After three plane rides, we landed in Rapid City, SD late in the evening yesterday.  To our delight, every piece of baggage that we checked in actually made it to the destination.  That's a good sign.  We checked into a motel outside of the Rapid City, got the rental van, and the trailer.  Students are upbeat and excited.  We have to stop by food and supplies store and get stocked for the next few days.  Today we are planning to visit the Badlands National Park. 

Students are writing their blogs and one can get to those blogs by clicking on the Student Blogs page above.  Visit this page often to follow us through our journey!  Below are some photos from day 1, mostly from our journey.

At Greenville-Spartanburg airport.

South Dakota - Black Hills in the far background

Our day-time home/office for the next three weeks.

All packed and ready to go!

Photo: From left to right - Tyler Cox, Elly Gay, Kelly Meason, Bill Ranson, Phoebe Ferguson, Tim Sharp, Kathryn Clark, Suresh Muthukrishnan, Melissa Corbett, Kelsey Ellis, Alex Burnette, Jack Garihan

Here we are.  Almost ready for the trip.  We have been waiting for this day for a long time.  Our journey will start tomorrow morning.  We just got our iPads and are packing our camping gear now.

Follow us on our journey.  Check the student blogs on the link provided on top.  It's almost pizza time!