Comfort Inn I-90 Rapid City

... Mountain. It sounded interesting so I set off in that direction. When I got there, however, much to my dismay, there was no horse in sight. And certainly not a crazy one. In the way that Mount Rushmore did exactly what it says on the tin, this place did nothing of the sort. But then I started reading. And watching. And it became abundantly clear that it was more impressive than it's barber shop ...

... Fred was a amused by a local 'Chilli cookoff' poster. <br><br>For lunch we stopped at a little Wyoming town called Lusk. The restaurant was called 'Triangle 4 Cafe &amp; Steakhouse' and so far on our trip across the U.S they win the dubious award of 'Worst Service'. When we arrived the waitress told us to find a table, but it was a good 8-10 minutes before she came over with menu's &#8211; normally you can hardly sit down before you're handed a menu. Yet when a group of ...

... br>As we wound our way through the park we drove past some doe in high grass feeding, around a few more bends on the mountainside we have to stop for a bunch of turkeys. The wildlife is getting good when we come down a steep hillside road right up on prong horn antelopes grazing in the grass. The best part of today's adventure through the woods was when we came around a high banked bend headlights to ...

... systems greening the scrub.  Mid afternoon we stopped off to see the Crazy Horse work in progress and Mount Rushmore mountain sculptures, which were tourist circuses as expected as was Keystone  We made camp for the night in Rapid City, a sprawling town of low-rise buildings and malls.  It had been getting gradually hotter as we descended the Rockies and it was about 30C by the time we got to the motel - hot and dusty, a complete opposite from the start of the day.<br><br>RnH

... a sign saying "Animal Activitsts not welcome in South Dakota", a sign saying "The Wages of Sin is Death", many many anti abortion billboards and one saying "Wear Fur.... it keeps the population in balance"(?????!!!!!), we sure weren't on the east coast any more, I'd take a giant CHEESE sign any day. This morning we took a drive to downtown Chamberlain and came across a park there by the river, which was very nice and walked ...

... We are in limbo and do not know what tomorrow will bring but hopefully someone at the DMV will take some ownership and see the light regarding the fact if you travel on a Canadian passport the Dept of Homeland Security does not issue an I - 94 (immigration visa) when you enter the USA. So we are in a stand off. DMV will not let us apply for a divers licence without an I - 94 and Homeland ...

We drove through miles and miles and miles and ...MILES of corn fields in the state of South Dakota that we found out does truly exist. They have so much corn there that they actually have a palace there made of corn. I realize that it sounds unreal, but you can look at the pictures! South Dakota had some amazing things to offer us especially since we were sure what to expect from a state that we didn't even think ...

... but the tent was dry as a bone. I let Suk sleep in as late as she wanted so she didn't mind it at all.. I took our coffee pot up to the shower room and made coffee while I showered.. When Suk got up she insisted that she make breakfast rather than going out.. She got her little Korean cooker which is a one burner hotplate with a self contained gas tank and made bacon and eggs in a flash... Nothing is better than smelling bacon in the woods.. It was ...

... we stopped for a bathroom break and to get a little exercise. While going to the bathroom dad (a OCD about cleanliness) decided to clean the car. He put his wallet on the roof of the van. Continued to clean out the van and the van's trashcan. We all hop back in the van get back on the road and travel 45 minutes to Perkins or benignas? We get out and dad starts to look for his wallet while we are throwing the Frisbee around ...

I got an early start heading south on 83 then west on I-90. I made a short stop at the Murdo rest area and crossed into mountain time a little bit further down the road. When I reached Kadoka I stopped at the Petrified Gardens, looked around and had a Dr. Pepper. Years later during my trips to California I would often go rockhounding with my cousins husband whose favorite discovery was petrified wood. Doing a goggle search ...