Best Western Phil Town Inn Sturgis

Having somehow survived the past couple of nights, despite my debilitating disease, I decided to choose life and see a doctor. Very nice chap he was too. He confirmed my fears when he told me that I had indeed picked up a little known virus more commonly associated with lost cities of gold and temples of doom. For the benefit of the nurse in the room, he used layman's terms and called it an ear ...

... end up riding *lone every d*y!

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Some of the concerts we h*d were re*lly good. .38 Speci*l w*s *wesome. They pl*yed for 3.5-4 hours. And they put on * good show too! Fogh*t h*s good music but they just kind of pl*yed their set. No re*l show went into it. So th*t w*s dis*ppointing. N*shville Pussy w*s *nother re*lly good show. They were good enough to get the girls up on the b*rs d*ncing ...

... of bikes and all that(esp in London!). But its different out here. Theres no traffic on the roads and therefore it felt a lot safer. It was also after 12 and there was no traffic anywhere(everyone IN Sturgis was inside this bloody camp site anyway!). So off we went, gently, and I got my first taste of having the wind in my hair, and the smell of the country(and petrol) and the heavy weight of the big,powerful Harley beneath me.. It was wonderful...till about 10 ...

... The bathrooms and showers were cleaned a few times a day. The general store sold all sorts of items. They had free wi-fi, good concerts, and a big pool. And all that was included for $99 for as many days as you wanted to stay between July 28 and August 9! I got a much better deal than the people staying at the Buffalo Chip.

... as it turned out I ended up partying on til the early hours.

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 ...

Alternative Title: All Hail The Bear Butte!

We hadn't been on the road very long this morning when we encountered yet more road works. This time they had dug up another inordinately lengthy stretch where nothing seemed to be happening. Obviously they've been having road building lessons from the Brits, the Spanish would have it done by now! We had to pull over and wait for a "Pilot Car" to take us through what turned out to be miles of ...

Started from home in Urbandale, IA. Target Black Hills, SD. We made stop in 1880 Town. Overnight in Wall.
Tomorrow reached Rapid City where we made "base camp".
For next 5 days we visited Mt. Rushmore, Crazy Horse Memorial, Custer City, Deadwood, Ho Spring, Tatanka Museum, Devils Tower, WY.

On our way back home we visited Sioux city.

Sick of my life in Vegas (****** jobs) I was desperate to get out and travel again. Upon hearing that my friend Pat (from Big Sky) and Dave McPune were driving to the east coast ( at the peak of gas prices) I readily excepted their invitation for this massive road trip. Since I was in Vegas and they were in Kansas, I flew to South Dakota to meet them. My plan was to either get a job somewhere along the east coast or fly out to India ...

I can't really believe it but we are flying home on Sunday, arriving in Gatwick Monday am, - exactly 6 weeks after that oyster in New Orleans! A nurse is flying over to accompany Dave back to Gatwick where an ambulance will meet him to take him to the Nuffield Hospital in Plymouth. Our travel insurance company, I imagine, will then breath an huge sigh of relief and BUPA (thank goodness I kept it going) will ...

It was the Christmas holiday, and my college roommate, a little more than a year out of Calcutta (Kolkata), India, was about to stay at school for the break. Not on my watch. I asked him to come home to South Dakota with me. He wasn't real sure about going anywhere further north than Iowa, but after several inspiring speeches ...