Custer Mountain Cabins and Campground

... the man agreed and asked Fred where we
were from – first time someone has asked since we've been here! (Apart from the JW girl). Fred told him and then asked him where they were from, he said Canada. I told him that he was the first person to ask us that, American's just don't ask us where we're from – he laughed and said, “They don't much ask me either!” which I thought was very funny.

Drove back to Custer, SD where we are staying in a ...

... the most unique scenic byways we have travelled on.

Because of the recent storms, which dropped quite a bit of snow at the higher elevations, we were not able to complete the Norbeck Byway - it's a loop road. We were able to do short portions of either end of it. Because this byway skirts Custer State Park we decided to take ...

... the animals loved. We also wondered about the lady walking along the road a mile or two back and the herd was going her way.

We were so lucky to be close enougth to see the herd. They looked very natural and undisturbed. Our drive continued up and we saw more groups of buffalos on their own. One group had a mother, teenager, and pre-adolescent buffalo eating grass. There were also goat and deers.

... are others but they are more reclusive than then ones we saw.

Friday night brought a rain shower to us at our campground (again) but to the north and in Sturgis they did not fare as well. They had wind up to 70 mph and hail the size of tangarines (earlier I had heard baseball but in an online article it stated smaller).

Well it is time to hit the road there was more to see here but even more ahead.

Our family had had a ranch in the Black Hill of South Dakota for years. My Grandpa lives and works up there raising Arabian Horses and maintaining the land. Growing up we lived less than a two hour drive from the ranch, but with our busy lives we never visited very much. But now that I am a 7-hour drive away, I cherish the area even more. It took a hurricane and $3.00 a gallon gas prices for my family to learn how to carpool and I must say we did ...

Sturgis, SD...the week before Harley Davidson bike week. This was highly awesome, as we managed to get the next to last room in the entire town. (Who knew the place would've been so packed) And we were also IN the town of Sturgis, right where all the vendors were, right were all the bikes and museums and stores were. Check out the pics when I post them for lots ...

I was excited because I was about to go see Mount Rushmore. I had seen so many pictures of it growing up-it is an American icon, just lke the Washington Memorial or the Statue of Liberty. Only it is way out in the middle of nowhere and there was little chance of me ever seeing it while I was growing up and it is so far from where I was living it's not somewhere you just jump in our car and drive all day to see ...