Best Western Hickok House Deadwood

... the limestone cliffs of the canyon, on both sides of the road, and it's spectacularly beautiful. I scoped out the canyon Saturday evening, then went back Sunday morning to get the best shots I could. I went to the Roughlock Falls area this time, for the first time. Roughlock Falls is really a triple falls and I was impressed with how beautiful that canyon is. I'm going to go back ...

... in. Other than that this town in mostly filled with slot machines, and lots of em. Which again we also took in :( <br><br>We started out with a 40.00 dollar limit, and Jess rocked the Wheel of Fortune slot machine for probably 3 straight hours off the same 40 bucks. She more than doubled our 40 at one point, and I think we both knew we should have cashed ...

... If the last 23 miles wasn't downhill, we would've been calling roadside service! We went 349 miles on that tank...that's a tidbit for you, Corina, if you are reading...Ms. new to the Sienna mini-van world. :)<br><br>After filling up, we literally waited a half hour at a road construction stop in downtown Buffalo. I was about ready to ask the flagger for one of her smokes! ****** cell phone service the rest of the night ...

... famous people in front of the doors, and then see their obituary and picture in the middle of the room. Yeah, I actually got freaked out after seeing that for the first time. But I ended up not thinking about the scary stuff since I was hungry and wanted to check the town out. <br><br>When we went out of the hotel to go around town, we saw how gambling became a necessity in this city by checking out every store that had slot machines and what not! Furthermore, we ended up ...

... from this. <br><br>Things we did on the way to Deadwood, SD: <br>- Held out hope for a moose. No luck. We will look again in the Northeast. <br>- Came upon more roadwork. We can&#8217;t take it anymore. Someone needs to take this stimulus plan and shove it. Don&#8217;t they realize all of this road improvement and all of these newly created jobs are slowing us down?? <br> - Came to the unanimous decision that Wyoming is ...

... of the 1000 ft monolith. Yes, he was clever enough. The problem was, he was stuck up on the top of the tower for six days while they tried to figure out how to get him down. Hats off to you Mr Hopkins, you dead set goose. With his junior ranger badge safely pinned to Zac's chest, we were off again. Now, its important to know that last time we were here, we took a scenic route out of Devils Tower, back towards the I-90 ...

... as it turned out I ended up partying on til the early hours.<br><br>The afternoon started off checking out some of the bars before stopping into Saloon No.10. It boasts as being the spot where Wild Bill was shot. The original bar burnt down but this reconstructed to look like the original bar. It was a great spot for a drink and I ended up talking to a couple who were visting there from Canada and having some drinks with them. They were quite suprised to see an ...

After driving a few hours we came to the black hills of South Dakota. Once seeing it you can understand why they are called the black hills. The evergreens are such a dark green that they actually do look black, unlike the evergreens from western Washignton that we are accustom to. We drove through Sturgis (thinkfully ...

The trip down into the States through South Dakota was a spontaneous decision. My parents and I decided that there may not be too many times when the three of us would be retired at the same time ever again, so we seized the day. We geared up filling my aunt's 22-foot motorhome mainly with more food than we could possibly eat in one week and I filled my little shelf with clothes, of which I only ended up wearing about half. The vague idea ...

... and you didn't have a bunch of big rv's turning it into a big parking lot. And Beaver Creek was very basic, and it was full when I got there but I found a spot to park. But this was the magic time of the year-Sunday and the end of the weekend. By the time it got to late afternoon I was the only one still there. It was me and the woods and a little streamlet.<br> After ...