RAD Road Trip Tip #4: Expect the Unexpected! Budget Extra Hours to get to your destination! RAD owner and graduated driver training students, from Coeur d’Alene and Rathdrum, Idaho, lived it in America’s Heartland!

1st RAD TART

Responsible Alert Driving ~ Transcontinental Abolitionist Road Trip
DAY 3  7/31/2010

Expect the Unexpected; Budget Extra Time

Where will Your driving Adventure lead You?!

Ours took us through a maze of corn fields, flooded roads, and family history!

         

• A day earlier, since someone mentioned flooded roads ahead, we budgeted extra hours to get to our destination, even though we never saw a flooded road for an entire day of travel.
• A small side trip to Hurley, South Dakota--16 miles off the state highway--took over an hour and half to accomplish!  Here’s what happened.
• The little town of Hurley is where the daddy of RAD owner, Martha, grew up.  It is also the home of the Arthur Nelson Historical Museum, in honor of Martha’s grandfather.
• With temperatures in the 90’s and clear blue skies, a few miles off the highway, we found ourselves submerged in miles of corn fields, and at our first of many closed roads--with water flowing like a river over the low areas! 
• As we ventured further from our destination, trying to find a passable road we became the proverbial mice in a maze of corn fields, and flooded pastures, and looded roads, and quaint farm houses set as little island hills of flooded acres.  Fence posts peeked above the surface in some places, corn tassels in others!
• Finally, we met some locals surveying the damage done to their father’s land.  They informed us that heavy rains over several days produced the flooding; and that it happens every year!
• They who weren’t sure which roads to direct us to, since many were still under flowing water! 
• So we sought high ground further away, so that we could survey the land and determine a successful course by line of sight.  Joy did a great job navigating us through washed out roads, nearly washed out roads, rebuilt soft dirt roads, pit run gravel road repairs, and--glory be!--pavement to Hurley!

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