La Quinta Inn And Suites Rapid City

... parks wildlife loop road. We also wanted to check out what was going on with the buffalo that had been rounded up last week. I'll let the photos tell the story of what's happening with the buffalo.

If you should ever find yourself in this part of the country we would recommend both Custer State park and the Norbeck Byway ...

We have been here in Rapid City for a week now and have had a series of unseasonably cold, wet and windy days. We've ventured out to the Buffalo roundup, a day trip to Deadwood/Sturgis and the local pumpkin festival. But, we have spent more time at home riding out the storms and the wind than we have away from the coach.

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We were up early today for the short drive from our campground out to Custer State Park. We had arrived in Rapid City in time for the annual buffalo roundup and we were looking forward to taking this event off our 'list'. We've included quite a few pictures that we took along with a few that a friend of a friend took. You will be able to ...

Today we drove to Ellsworth Airforce base and took a tour through the base. It was very cool to see a live functioning completely self-contained base and go down inside the silo of one of the "Minute Man" Missiles. Well it was an out of commission one because the real ones have about a dozen security measures you would have to get through. During the cold war this was the largest airforce base and had on-site over 1300 missiles ! They say ...

... Something that caught my eye was the fact that during the early part of the career of Buffalo Bill, elsewhere in the world Karl Marx was writing the "Communist Manifesto". Now, in my limited brain space where world history has any cells assigned to the subject, I never would have put those two things in the same time frame. Shows what I know! I was then able to scoot over to the firearms display, and there again, while I'm interested in the subject, I certainly have a glancing ...

... Rushmore which I saw on the way there. When I got out of the car I felt a slight twinge in my lower back, but no big deal. I took a nap and made dinner then went on a drive on their wildlife loop at sunset. Saw lots of deer, a few turkey, and some more bison. It is a beautiful state park and quite large. Lots of camping areas and everything is well marked, not always the case. When I returned, my lower back was killing me all of a sudden. I was planning ...