I recently did a rough calculation to figure out how many times I’ve traveled the 13 miles to and from town over my 40 years living at my country home. Going both ways, I figure it to be something more than 20,000 drives up and down the canyon. Further calculations give me the figure of at least 260,000 miles traveled, so about 6,500 miles a year.
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Laura Tonkyn has spent 40 years becoming as self-sufficient as possible with her jack-of-all-trades husband, Art, on their eight-acre homestead in the Black Hills of South Dakota. She has written/edited for a number of local/regional papers, including the Rapid City Journal and Faces Magazine. Reach her at laura.tonkyn@gmail.com.





