OffBeat Pathfinder Basecamp

They’re weirdly beautiful. Saw more cows than people.

Just got back from Frankenmuth and I still can’t pronounce half the things I ate. This place is like getting teleported straight into a storybook—cuckoo clocks, Bavarian architecture, and chicken dinners the size of my face (looking at you, Zehnder’s).


I wandered Main Street in search of the ...

If you’ve ever driven I-90 across South Dakota, you know the siren call of Wall Drug’s endless billboards—“Free Ice Water!” “See the Jackalope!” But Wall is more than a quirky pit stop, and last month I decided to stick around for a day to see what all the fuss was about.

Spoiler: totally worth ...