Pines Motel Newcastle

... rival down the road. I would tell you all about it but I think you'd benefit more from looking it up yourself.



Thought of the Day

Is free wireless ever really free?

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I paid $80 to be seen by a doctor
Due to impaired hearing, I thought he said 'rear' when he asked to look in my 'ear'
I have been asked not to go back to that particular medical centre

... Fred was a amused by a local 'Chilli cookoff' poster.

For lunch we stopped at a little Wyoming town called Lusk. The restaurant was called 'Triangle 4 Cafe & Steakhouse' and so far on our trip across the U.S they win the dubious award of 'Worst Service'. When we arrived the waitress told us to find a table, but it was a good 8-10 minutes before she came over with menu's – normally you can hardly sit down before you're handed a menu. Yet when a group of ...

We originally planned to stay in Deadwood and experience the downtown "old frontier town" but it was too expensive and we wanted to get a headstart on the trip to Colorado. Soooo we made it into Wyoming and found a quaint $35 motel room with free WIFI, hot shower, and cable TV. We were in heaven!!

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.

... Salt Lake City. Chapter 17: Mount Rushmore National Memorial 20. May 2008 Eventhough Tamina had had a bad night with fever, we drove to Mount Rushmore National Memorial the next morning. Here we saw the monument of the four president George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln built into the rock... After a picknick the journey continued to Salt Lake City.

... has only a few days left before it follows suit. We disconnect the water pipe at night so it doesn't freeze! We're up and out early as we've read that early morning is best for photographing the "Presidents" So far we seem to have been extremely lucky with the weather, choosing good days for sight seeing and travelling on dry but maybe not such bright days. I suppose Yellowstone was the ...

After Mt Rushmore, we went to Jewel Cave National Monument, it was only about a half-hour away. With our "America the Beautiful" federal lands pass, we could go on the introductory cave tour for free. Basically we went underground in the super-speeding elevator (it goes down something like 23 stories in about 30 seconds, and you don ...

... condensor, timing, and saw the vacuum was low.
I have talked aobut the national forest campgrounds in a former blog, but to repeat, they were generally pretty basic-no running water, no bathrooms (sometimes portojohns), sometimes picnic tables and trashcans, but that was about it. And I liked it liked it like that, because aa a general rule they were always ...

... http://www.nps.gov/moru/index.htm .
After spending about an hour and a half of the morning there I went on to explore more of the Black Hills. I stopped at Iron Mountain Picnic Area for lunch and for you birders I saw some red crossbills there. Next I stopped at the Norbeck Memorial Scenic Overlook.
I saw there were cave tours in the area, the main being Wind Cave and Jewel Cave. I decided to go to ...

... wood I found this plae mentioned but until today when I reviewed my log book I had forgotten that I had been there.
Next I got a partial fillup of gas because I found the price in this outying area had jumped up like it usually did away from the city. I had a 20 gallon tank and usually got between 15 and 18 miles per gallon so had a range of about 300 to 350 miles and I always tried to plan my route so I would hit and ...