Annie Lee's Rapid City
820 South Street Rapid City, South Dakota, 57701, United States
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Day 3 Corn Palace, Missiles, Homesteads & Badlands
... called Mitchell, which was the "Home of the Corn Palace"! Yes, indeed, there it was… a palace made of corn, plus lots of corn related tourist shops. I could have bought some figurines of Native Americans with skirts made of corn cobs, but managed to resist. I also resisted the Santa Xmas tree decoration where Santa was made from an ear of corn. How good am I?? We did stop and have our photos next to a corn cob though! Oh yeah, I did buy the kids Corn ...
Day 5: Chasing the Sunset
... driving through an extra 2 hours of sunlight.
We had a special reason to speed, you see. Waterslides. Rapid City, South Dakota is a tourist trap of the most transparent variety, contains several very reasonably priced lodging destinations, most of which apparently survived a strange, indoor pool-and-waterslide arms race sometime back in the not-so-recent past. So we had the pick of free breakfasts, waterslides and ...
Badlands + Mt Rushmore + Crazy Horse = good times
... and a pool table... But the women still had mullets and most of the guys were wearing dirty clothes and caps! Plus there was a dog roaming around. The Australians were happy because the TV was showing their football grand finale, but me, Kate and Scott were more interested in the Karaoke that the local rednecks were taking part in. One woman with a mullet and the guy that owned the dog got up and attempted to sing Hotel California.. ...
Day 68
... filled in. The sink hole happened over 26,000 years ago and over a period of 300 to 700 years many species of animals were trapped. To date, 58 mammoths (55 Columbian and 3 wooly) have been identified, along with the remains of a giant short-faced bear, camel, llama, prairie dog, wolf, fish, and numerous invertebrates. Apparently this hole existed during the ice age which accounts for the wooly mammoths (Note: they are ...
Where the Buffalo roam....
... 8221;. We hiked around a bit and caught back up to Ally, Barb, and Sarge. After Ally and Rory skipped out of the park we got back in the car and went to Custer State Park nest to Mount Rushmore.
There are few truly wild places left in this country, Custer State Park is one of them. It is know for the 1,500 magnificent bison the wander the 71,000 acre park, one or the nations largest State Park. In the park we drove the Needles ...


