Road Trip!
Walk Two Moons
Starting Point: Euclid, Ohio or Bybanks, Kentucky?
You and your grandparents have gone on a journey across the country in search of your mother. While along the journey, you'll make several stops that are some of the most well known landmarks in the United States. Here's a helpful guide to show you the ropes on the road trip.
First off: where do we really start?
Just to make life easier-and to make this form shorter-I've chosen Euclid, Ohio as the starting point.
Good Synonyms to Know
- gooseberry=Gram
- chickabiddy=Sal
- Indian(s)=Native American(s)
- Salamanca=Seneca
- singing trees=birds singing in trees
- huzza=hooray
The Essentials
- Some type of transportation(maybe not a bus...)
- Map
- Money
- Something to entertain yourself with
- A driving license(technically not...but you should have it if you're driving alone)
Euclid, Ohio
Housing
Small, but cozy. It definitely is different from the country setting you were in, but you'll get used to it. Just because it's small in size doesn't mean that you can't make it wonderful. Every house is very interesting to look at from the inside, like Mrs. Cadaver's or the Finneys' house.
Style
I wished I had a better picture for the style here in Euclid, but this is the best I could get. Kids are up to date with the style; always wearing new clothes, and most of them wear braces. The girls here wear their hair in a shoulder-length bob(as displayed in the picture) with long bangs.
Phoebe's Tips on Things to Avoid
- Mrs. Cadaver and her house
- Mr. Birkway
- the lunatics wandering around the neighborhood
- being kidnapped(by the lunatics)
- being murdered(by Mrs. Cadaver)
- being fat(by her mother and her pastries)
- eating things with cholesterol
- REALITY
- strange messages
- brain tumors/cancer
Madison, Wisconsin
Wisconsin has many different activities for anyone to enjoy. At Madison there are wonderful restaurants, in the Wisconsin Dells they have many attractions like theme parks, resorts, and shows, and also it's history like Native American dances.
Restaurants
Two restaurants in Madison are Ella's Kosher Deli and Ice Cream Parlor and Steep and Brew.
Wisconsin Dells
This city has many attractions, both from nature and man-made. You can go visit places like the Mirror Lake State Park or Mt. Olympus Water and Theme Park.
Pow-wow
This may be the dance where you can loose your grandma in...
Pipestone, Minnesota
Pipestone National Monument
Quarrying and Peace Pipes
The Pipestone National Monument has 56 sites to quarry for pipestone, or catlinite, which makes pipes. It is very difficult to quarry for the pipestone; you have to dig through soil(which depth ranges from 1-6 feet) and Sioux Quartzite(which depth ranges from 4-10 feet). It is very tedious work because you can only loosen small pieces of Quartzite, and once that's done the pipestone itself is very fragile. If you want to quarry, you should go in the summer or late fall months.
South Dakota
Wildlife
Some wildlife you may want to look out for here are bats, river otters, the northern flying squirrel, and the Prairie Rattlesnake, which is poisonous.
Gram and Gramp's Tips on Places to Go
The Badlands
The Badlands were made by deposition and erosion, and it is a sedimentary rock. The climate in the summer can become really hot, but winters are brutal. Unpredicted weather conditions are common.
Black Hills
The Sioux Indians used to have the Black Hills, which houses Mount Rushmore, with the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie, but then the US government took it back. The Black Hills has some very valuable resources like gold, timber, and minerals, but it is not the only reason why the Sioux want it back. It also is like a spiritual center for them too.
Mount Rushmore
Truthfully, Mount Rushmore is unfair to the Sioux because they were here first in America. At least a state historian, Doane Robinson, wanted to attract tourism and tried to get Red Cloud, a Sioux chief, as one of the faces. But the actual sculptor-Gutzon Borglum-suggested the presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln(they added the other two presidents later) as the subjects to attract more "national interest", as said on history.com.
Wyoming
Yellowstone
Yellowstone national park, which is on top of a super volcano overdue for eruption. There has been a thin layer of ash, the same material at Yosemite's crater, found in the western USA underneath modern soil, so that shows how far the last eruption had spread. Scientists also have been able to discover that the next eruption is overdue 40,000 years.