Roosevelt Inn Of Keystone

Having somehow survived the past couple of nights, despite my debilitating disease, I decided to choose life and see a doctor. Very nice chap he was too. He confirmed my fears when he told me that I had indeed picked up a little known virus more commonly associated with lost cities of gold and temples of doom. For the benefit of the nurse in the room, he used layman's terms and called it an ear ...

... 8 motel, which turned out to be a pleasant surprise, as for the same price as we've been paying in the last 4 hotels we've got a separate room for the kids (with tv), the usual free wi-fi & breakfast and a indoor heated swimming pool – which Fred & the kids are planning to use shortly. Pizza Hut delivered our dinner, which was far more than we could eat, but still yummy. Off to catch up on our two huge loads of laundry, while I sip my A&W Root Beer.....

... this afternoon, and went out for supper at this really cool, really good, german resteraunt called Alpine Inn. Thanks Betsy!! The food was amazing, the dessert was positively to die for. If I had died and gone to heaven I wouldn't have noticed. Tomorrow, back on the road.

... and was praying that there is somebody on the road who needs a ride! Then she spotted us! We are forever grateful to Bonnie especially Adriana - just the walk down the hill was enough for some sore muscles. We were able to take some good pictures of the monument and we walked around to see it close-up. It was majestic and grand! What a great place to visit, we just didn't have any time to look around - 30-40 000 people were there - most of them from ...

... should have seen Mount Rushmore by now! My mom and I were pretty excited to make it here as it's always been a goal of ours.

The Black Hills region of South Dakota is swamped with tourist traps. After visitng Mount Rushmore one of the more touristy things we succumbed to was Bear Country USA. A few years ago when my I was with my family in San Antonio and we went on the drive ...

Started from home in Urbandale, IA. Target Black Hills, SD. We made stop in 1880 Town. Overnight in Wall.
Tomorrow reached Rapid City where we made "base camp".
For next 5 days we visited Mt. Rushmore, Crazy Horse Memorial, Custer City, Deadwood, Ho Spring, Tatanka Museum, Devils Tower, WY.

On our way back home we visited Sioux city.

I woke up early and went back to the restaurant to get some "to go" breakfasts. If I thought the previous night was slow, they proved me wrong. It took an hour before I was paying for it...what the f... After that the day improved greatly. Michelle joined Brooks and I as we once again walked the loop to the Spearfish Falls. Once we were finished were drove the mile or so to Roughlock Falls, were we ate our cold, but still very tasty breakfast. After breakfast, we walked ...

... Cave http://www.nps.gov/jeca/index.htm , as the site says Jewel Cave at 146 miles is the second longest cave in the world. One of the things that is nice about it is that they try to keep it from becoming like many cave tourist attractions and protect the integrity of the site.
After my tour there it was getting on toward evening so I stopped at the Moon Camp Ground in the national forest for the night.