Holiday Inn Northern Black Hills Spearfish

... 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 ...

Yesterday was a learning experience....in preparation and patience. We started out the morning at our little bunkhouse in Thermopolis, WY. We then went to the Dinosaur Museum where Jimbo, Wyoming's biggest found dinosaur to date lives. He's a longneck. The girls squealed with excitement when they saw "baby maiasaurus" who "Diego" introduced them to in his "Great Dinosaur eadventure. I have some cool pics to be uploaded ...

Having left the Bad Lands we headed towards Rapid City, as we drove away from the Bad Lands over the plains heading west, in the distance we could see the dark coloured hills on the horizon.  We wanted to  visit Rapid City to clear our mail from Americas Mailbox, organize the re-registration the vehicles, and I wanted to visit a Flyfishing shop in town. After all the chores were done we headed up into the Black hills .<br>These hills are really ...

... of former President Cory Aquino through my mother. since this was the rural area in the middle of nowhere, it was difficult to find any news from the Philippines unless there was a computer with internet access nearby. <br><br>After lunch, we got back on the road, watched several movies such as "spiderman 1 and 2", the entire "Rush Hour" trilogy, and saw several cows being themselves near ranches. Yes. The meadow area was all we could see for a few hours, and by then I had ...

... in Deadwood.<br><br>As I was on my own, they invited me to join them for dinner so I went along and we had a couple of bottles of wine and a nice meal, which they ended up paying for!! After dinner I went to the Silverado casino and played on the tables for a couple of hours before finally stumbling back to the hotel. The couple I met didnt come along to the Casino as by the time dinner finished the Mrs was hammered, so they went back to their hotel instead.

... of up to 500,000 bikes into the area for a week, NO it is not a misprint, up to ½ a million or more motorbikes! WOW what an experience. The bikies are, as we have found out now more, have an average age of over 45 or more, and they travel from all over the world to attend this, we ran into some Australians from Perth. We drove our Castle as best we could fit amongst the many moving bikes, onto the road to Deadwood. One could ask what and where is Deadwood? It is part of the ...

... heading further up that road, we encountered the second group who directed us further up the gulch and provided some decidedly helpful trail condition reports. Once we got out of Annie Gulch and started heading back towards camp, Mike was in full-on navigator mode and did his damndest to make sure we used as little pavement as possible to get back to Horsethief Lake. This involved some serious threading through the Experimental ...

... and antelope, and tons of roadkill. Our route into Wyoming, then oops South Dakota, was, we decided, the bloodiest highway in America. <br>We arrived at our campground in the dark, and we found one empty spot that we were immediately booted out of by an RV-driver. But, as we were sitting in the car wondering what to do, the RV-driver came over and offered us one of his other campsites for the night. Very nice guy! <br><br>Jenny

... next to the natural wonder of the Badlands. Who knew? I guess it was kind of like that time I watched The Excorcist right after I watched Lawrence of Arabia. It just didn't strike me like everyone said it would.... Next thing I know I'm back on I-90 and headed west again. The sun was dropping quickly and I figured I'd better get off the road if I was going to set camp. And (finally) I did. I found a KOA in Spearfish and threw down the ...