Riverside Inn Hot Springs
646 S. 5th St. Hot Springs, South Dakota, 57747, United States
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From the peaks to the prairie
... dog town when the coyotes venture from the hills. Since the parking lot at rankin ridge had cell service i decided to spend the night there. While brushing my teeth before bed i heard the cries of coyotes and was able to watch a pair emerge from the woods and stalk the p-dog town nearby, when they left a herd of 30+ bison grazed through up until i receded into the van. Viewing a distant lightning storm in the distance is my last activity off the day. Or so I thought. Around 10:30 ...
Busy, Busy, Busy
... on another one later, but it was a shorter trip and it would put be behind schedule, so I opted to mark Wind Cave for another trip. Maybe tomorrow, I was actually going to do it then anyways, but the trip to West Yellowstone is going to be ridiculous as it is so well see how I'm feeling in the morning.
I must say that I was pleasantly surprised by how much I crammed into today.
First up, the concrete dinosaur things in Rapid City. I saw them, I took ...
South Dakota
... went through Black Hills National Forest. One mountain we saw had only one lone tree on the top. In South Dakota, we saw round hay bales on the highway easement (maybe for wildlife during the winter. In Wyoming, we saw rectangular hay bales. We could tell we were climbing in altitude. The landscape was full of beautiful mesas/caprocks. When in a valley, they looked like sand traps on a golf course. We saw lots of prairie-land ...
Day 1 - Denver -> Pringle, SD
360 miles - 6 hours ride time
The adventure begins!
Well I finally get on the road...3 1/2 hours later than I had planned. It seems the less space you have for stuff the longer it takes to pack (w'as up wit dat?). The bike is awesome and traffic is light so I take it to 70 then 80 mph - this BMW is smooth. Once I cross the Wyomng border clouds begin to build until ...
Going back to school
... truly is an interesting place. What's most interesting, at least to me, was that we were walking around on the exact spot where these mammoth creatures walked, lived and died. Scientist believe there was a large watering hole in which the mammoths went to drink, slide down the embankments and could not get back out of the water ... so they died. There remains were buried over time but for the most part "in tact".
One place we did not get ...


