Sunshine Inn Wall

... ruin the beauty of this country.

Seeing a sign for Sundance, I pulled in to find a charming little historic town. Charlie spied a big green park as he watched out the window, and gave me a look that said “that’s for me!” I let him off leash and he ran like he was being chased by a coyote. We seemed to be the only ones there until a large group of motorcycle people roared in and into the Star Diamond Bar to heft a ...

... from Wall so we just walked over to the town. We had dinner in the local bar, buffalo burgers and fries, then checked out all the souvinere shops. The town was busy getting ready for the Rodeo being held over the weekend and a big tent was being raised for the picnic and music planned for Friday and Saturday nights. We won't be attending since we're heading to Rapid City on Saturday.

Got to keep moving!

Day 28 - Deadwood, SD to Mount Rushmore to Wall, SD to Badlands NP

Left the KOA as rapidly as possible this morning. No need for dilly-dallying in our pajamas when surrounded by other people breathing down our necks.

Things we did in Deadwood, SD:
- Visited Mt. Moriah Cemetery, where Calamity Jane and Wild Bill, among other colorful characters of the Wild West, are buried. Bri possibly got in touch with her McClintock roots (her Gram’s ...

... day on our way to the Black Hills.

As our trip progresses, I’m sure you will get bored with me saying how great the scenery was – but it’s not an overstatement with the Badlands. Besides the fantastic rock formations, we were able to see prong-horned antelope, wild turkey and scads of prairie dogs. Oh - and there aredonkeys who comeup to cars and beg!

Today proved to be another long day on the road. We got an early start since we did not unhook last night as we did not leave the campground once we finally got in. Our first stop was the Little Big Horn National Park. We have been there before, but since we drove right past we stopped briefly for a few photos. Then was the long drive across I-90. We ...

... ended in a circle of crying girls because we didn't wanna say bye to each other A few sore heads the next morning and a packing up of the camp occurred for our drive to New york to do the drop off began and man did it suck to know we were all going to have to say bye to each other. The drive into the city was sweet, manhattan looks so cool as you approach it. If you fail to be impressed by the skyscrapers as chris garver once said 'there is something very wrong with you ...

... My clutch hand hurts now from it all. We found the campground which is more like a field converted to a campground. No shade trees or anything. I think it is only really open for the big bike event. We set up our tents and unloaded the bikes (again). While grabbing a sandwich we saw that ZZ Top was playing at the Buffalo Chip. The Buffalo Chip is a big bar/campground that was down the street. Since I like ZZ Top and enjoyed listening to them on the way out, we ...

After leaving Mount Rushmore, we headed north on Highway 16, eventually hooking up with I-90 and heading eastward for around 50 miles. It was so windy, the SUV was being pushed like crazy and the sound of howling wind was constant. We got to the Badlands around 4 pm under partially cloudy conditions. We paid the $15.00 entry fee and before long had our breath complete ...

We actually headed east to Wall Drug rather than west to Little Bighorn. Apparently, these "Hearty Minnesotans" heard snow was in the forecast and wanted to head for cover. After a slight delay getting in to the hotel we were set to see Wall Drug. I didn't know much about it but had heard of ...

... and a large population of prairie dogs could be seen all over. After a drive through the length of the park we found a campsite outside of Wall, SD and got cleaned up and set up camp. Showers, laundry and the a trip back into the park for the requisite photo (challenging this time) and then back for a nice fire and bedtime. Tommorrow... two parks and as much of Wyoming as we can do.