Rodeway Inn Hot Springs

We have not had much luck with the weather here in South Dakota. It seems that Mother Nature has decided to skip Autumn and to instead go directly to Winter. We wanted to take the Peter Norbeck Scenic Byway while we were here and decided to give it a try today. We had driven this route during our visit two years ago and it is by far one ...

... the difference in the pictures since this friend was actually a part of the round up.

We've also included a link to the state park and this annual event. It is definately something everyone should plan on attending at least once - it is truly a unique experience.

http://www.sdgfp.inf o/Parks/Regions/Custer/round.htm

On this day, we packed up camp and headed to the Black Hills. We went through Wind Cave National Park where we sighted our first buffalo, Tatanka. We couldn't believe our eyes. We had gotten used to seeing cows. This particular one was big and fluffy in the head. We could barely see his eyes. His horns came out of his head, shiny and curvy. He wasn't doing anything but standing there like a statue. He was ...

After Vermillion, we decided not to go through Sioux Falls but took back roads through South Dakota. One of our first stops on the way was in Yankton, SD where we had some potent Espresso drinks at an Espresso coffee house, we had 3-4 shots of espresso to prepare us for the long drive, which we didn't think it would be. We kept on driving through the Plains that were filled with fields of corn (field corn not for consumption we think based on what Sam told ...

... cave is huge!! 2nd larges in length of cave passages in the world with 95% of the cave was coated with calcite formations. I have never been in a cave like this before. AND to top it all off there was an elevator to get down into the cave.

Outside the cave in the Park I had the fortune of seeing a big heard of buffalo again, this time about 50 - 100 feet away with no river to divide us. Somehow I cannot get over the magic of seeing these majestic animals close up and ...

... If we were to come back, we would camp to enjoy the stars. We put a couple hundred miles on the bikes that day, up to and through the Badlands, to the highway through Wall-stopping at the world famous Wall Drug-and to circle back on Route 16. All in all a couple hundred miles. I need a better seat on my bike. . . . :) We moved on to Hot Springs-the very southern end of the Black Hills area. We found a fantastic place to dry camp-Cold Brook ...

... like we make things harder than they need to be these days. With all of our technological advances it seems like smaller more mundane projects are more complicated than what was accomplished almost a century ago. The Needles and the Wildlife Loop were amazing. I think I like them better than running Deal's gap. I took video as I rode, as soon as I can get it edited I will upload so hopefully you can get a better experience than what the photos have to offer. If ...

Our last stops in South Dokota were the Wind Cave National Park and the mammoth site both near Hot springs. The wind cave was discovered by brothers in 1881, who heard wind blowing out of a small hole in the side of a mountain. We took the natural entrance tour inside the cave and saw lots of boxwork. It was hard to take pictures in the cave since ...

... stütz** sie in d** Pause in kleinen Kreisen rauchen, was für viele von uns sehr **greifend ist. Am Ende des Tages w**den wir aus d** Camp-Küche v**köstigt (alle Unt**stütz** sind gehalten Nahrungsmittelspenden mitzubringen), geniessen einen h**ausragenden Sonnenunt**gang an einem Himmel, d** irgendwie so viel weit** **scheint als sonst) mit wilden Mustangs vor d** Kulisse des hügeligen Horizonts und nach Einbruch d** Dunkelheit begehen viele von uns eine weit**e ...

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