Settlers and Playcatan.com
Well, I usually just use this blog to blog about pictures and travel, I figured it'd be a decent place just to blog about random stuff as well. This time its going to be about the game Settlers and especially, playing it on playcatan.com. Now, settlers is a game of strategy but also has a large luck element to it. However, placements, ports, where to put the robber, and other factors do play a large part in if you win or lose. (...)
Chain O' Lakes State Park
On the way to Chicago, I made a stop at Chain O' Lakes State Park . While the park does contain lakes formed by the inlet of the fox river, the lakes aren't that scenic, but the Praire landscape is.
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Bike ride to the Dells
Biked from Madison to Wisconsin Dells Today. There isn't a path like the other places I go so I just had to take roads. This does lead to a lot of scenic stuff though and interesting places. For instance, the veterans memorial:
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Cahokia and Horseshoe Lake
On the way back from St. Louis. I stopped at Cahokia Mounds and Horseshoe lake State Park. Not really much scenic but Cahokia does have the biggest mound structure in North America, Monk's Mound:
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Badger and Jane Adam's Trail
Biking today on the Badger State Trail and the Jane Adams Trail . The Badger Trail has this large tunnel that makes it famous:
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Copper Falls and Timms Hill
The last bit of my road trip I went to Copper Falls and Timms Hill. Copper falls is considered one of the best state park in all of Wisconsin with its scenic falls:
And Brownstone Falls:
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Claiming the Mississippi
After leaving North Dakota, I went in search of the source of the Mississippi and found it at Lake Itasca . As always I put my flag up at the headwaters and claimed all the lands that the Mississippi and its tributaries drain for the Empire of the Glorious Bob.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
I spent most of the time in North Dakota at Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Its a great park with views of landscape, wildlife, and the Northan Dakotan Badlands, which are different from their South Dakotan counterparts.
Rain over the landscape:
Landscape on a sunny day:
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White Butte
Leaving South Dakota, I went north into the lands of North Dakota at arrived at its highest point, White Butte. At 3508ft, its a desolte Butte that stands alone in the North Dakotan Countryside and marks its highest point.
Some hills near the high point under skies
Far off view of the Butte: (...)
Badlands National Park
Next stop on the road trip was Badlands National Park in South Dakota with its amazing Limestone formations. Plenty of wildlife in the park as well.
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