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    • TravelerOn the road ’cross the USA II
      Day 8

      Black Hills

      July 9, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 34 °C

      Day seven: The first week is almost over and it was such a blast! Today we started with exploring our first national park - the Badlands. There you can feel the force of nature, it's amazing. Also we saw some wild animals like sheeps 🐑, prairie dogs 🐿 and - the best is comming at the end - two bisons 🐂🐂! Foxes live there as well but we didn't see them. But we heard them in the morning.
      After leaving Badlands we took a road off (what fun! 😈) to Rapid City. There we visited a trade fair for oldtimer. It was that nice! 🚗
      Back on the road we went to Mount Rushmore Memorial in Black Hills and afterwards to Hill City for eating something. We found a nice looking restaurant and chose it for rest. I tried a burger with buffalo meat and national beer from Black Hills. Both were very tasty! 🍔🍺
      When we was done we tried to find a campground and found one at Center Lake in Custer State Park.
      At the end of the day we got to know new campers sitting on the campfire, just hanging. But I was really tired so I fell asleep very quickly.

      Badlands National Park ✔
      Ride off-road ✔
      Seeing bisons ✔
      Eating buffalo meat ✔
      Seeing oldtimers ✔
      Mount Rushmore Memorial ✔
      Needle Hwy ✔
      Needles Eye ✔
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    • TravelerUSA
      Day 73

      Black Hills in South Dakota

      May 13, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C

      Mit Carley und Avalon ging es zum Abschluss nach South Dakota. Eigentlich stand dieser Staat nicht auf meiner Reiseroute, aber ich bin froh, dass Carley mich eingeladen hat.
      Wir haben uns den Wildlife Loop, den Cluster State Park, den Needles Highway, den Black Hills State Forest, Mount Rushmore und Old Macdonald's Farm angesehen.Read more

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    • Bret AlldredgeRoad Trip
      Day 1

      Second day's drive

      June 27, 2016 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 17 °C

      We woke a little late, but did do on purpose. We had pancakes for breakfast. We wanted to feel like we were camping.
      We drove through Nebraska. When we left the Platte valley, the scenery changed. I finally felt like I was on vacation. The hills were really neat looking. The drive felt long today, I guess we were still tired of being in the truck. As we neared Badlands, the road became really rough. We arrived at Custer state park around dinner and decided not to go anywhere else.Read more

    • TravelerThe Dolores Diaries
      Day 4

      Devils tower/ Dead presidents

      October 28, 2017 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 7 °C

      After a 6 hour drive, we went to devil's tower national monument. That's a dope rock. It's 867ft tall! Someome climbed it in 18min! Also it's really crazy looking. Makes sense why it was in that one sci Fi movie. They know it was created by lava flows but aren't sure exactly how. The streaks are where the lava hardened and cracked. Most of the rocks cracked in hexagons because thats nature's strongest shape! Then it was a 2 hr drive to Mount Rushmore. It's smaller than I thought it would be. I remember learning about it when I was little and was excited to go. But Samantha Lynn Larson spoiled it for me by saying that it's located in the black hills of South Dakota, sacred Sioux land. Which our ancestors kicked them off of and then pretty soon after built a shrine to our favorite white people. An interesting symbol of patriotism. Other than that it's pretty cool?

      More adventures tomorrow.      Read more

    • Bret AlldredgeRoad Trip
      Day 2

      Crazy roads, crazy trail.

      June 28, 2016 in the United States ⋅ 🌧 19 °C

      Today had a forecast for thunderstorms. We started the day on Iron Mountain Road. It was built so that the one lane tunnels aim at views of Mount Rushmore. After that, we saw the deadheads and Alyson earned her Jr ranger badge.
      As we left, thunderstorms were moving in. We drove west towards Needles Highway. It was so narrow that we could reach out of the truck to touch trees. We stopped at Sylvan Lake. We hiked around the lake and did the first bit of Sunday Gulch trail. We may return tomorrow if weather permits. We had to return to the campground to move the camper to the next spot.      Read more

    • TravelerRPod Travel 2021
      Day 264

      Rapid City and Black Hills

      August 4, 2021 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 75 °F

      So MANY motorcycles. Sturgis Bike Rally starts in a few days. Met up with Kyle and Nikole for dinner at Firehouse Brewing. They live in TC and are on a road trip. So much fun to see them! Rapid City downtown is cool. Met a local (originally from MI) at Lost Cabin Brewery that tried to convince Tyson to line dance. 🤣 Sushi had to spend the night in the Rapid City Animal hospital. ☹️ She stopped eating and drinking while we were at Yellowstone. She’s all better after a night getting IV fluids and other meds. 💸 Thank goodness. If something were to happen to her I would fall apart. We also had a truck tire replaced. Slow leak that Discount Tire could not fix. Stayed at Rapid City RV Park and Central Lake Campground in Custer SP. Drove by Crazy Horse, Mt. Rushmore and through the small towns of Custer and Keystone. Lost Trails hike around the lake in our CG was nice. Needles highway in Black Hills is super cool. Iron Mtn highway okay. I should mention that Tyson has biked in almost every single spot we’ve stayed. The trail he tried to take at Custer SP was closed so he opted to go on a hike with me and Kaline around the lake which, of course, we both loved. We did A LOT of driving in the Black Hills area. Or I should say Tyson did a lot of driving of those winding narrow roads.

      Tyson: Is this where everyone in Lake Havasu goes for the summer?      Read more

    • TravelerMount Rushmore Rally
      Day 8

      Day Eight

      September 12, 2022 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 66 °F

      Day Eight: 🔥 ///combos.nobles.signature. Coffee, showers and breakfast sandwiches to start the day and we hit the road heading North. Our first stop is Keystone. We discover an over the top tourist trap of tee-shirts and plastic trinkets. With that, we continue North, eventually arriving in Lead, SD. A town built on and around a massive gold mine. We visit the local museum and SURF to learn about Neutrino research going on 8,000 feet below us in the now closed mine. The Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF), or Sanford Lab, is an underground laboratory in Lead, South Dakota. The deepest underground laboratory in the United States, it houses multiple experiments in areas such as dark matter and neutrino physics research, biology, geology and engineering.
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      A short hop later and we're in Deadwood, SD. Lunch, museum, wander the town, and finally the Mount Moriah Cemetery: the burial place of Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Seth Bullock and other notable figures of the Wild West. We blow through Sturgis being followed by a wall of forest fire smoke (probably from Idaho) and arrive back at camp in time for some relaxing. Great night with warmer temperatures are perfect for hanging out by the fire. We are fully acclimated to the Motor Coach bed now and we sleep great.      Read more

    • TravelerMount Rushmore Rally
      Day 9

      Day Nine

      September 13, 2022 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 64 °F

      Day Nine: 🔥 ///combos.nobles.signature. Wake up with the smoke hazed sun. After coffee we dump tanks and fill the coach with fresh water. Showers and a relaxed breakfast get us in the road by 10:30. We head down to town of Hot Springs and check out 'The Mammoth Site.'

      - In June 1974, heavy equipment operator George Hanson was leveling ground for a Hot Springs housing development planned by land owner Phil Anderson. Hanson was grading a small hill when his blade struck something that shone white in the sunlight. Hanson got out for a closer look. What he saw was a tusk, about seven feet long, sliced in half length wise, along with other bones. Mr. Anderson contacted three universities and colleges in South Dakota and one university in Nebraska, none of the 4 colleges were interested in the project nor did they have any desire to come and see what was discovered in Hot Springs.

      Mr. Hanson then took some of the bones to his son Dan, who had taken classes in geology and archaeology. Dan Hanson realized these were no ordinary bones. He called his former college professor, Dr. Larry Agenbroad, who was on the faculty of Chadron State College in Chadron, Nebraska at the time, and asked him to come and take a look at the site. Dr. Agenbroad was in southeastern Arizona when Hanson called, excavating a site where mammoths had been hunted and killed.

      The young Hanson kept a 24-hour vigil at the site until Dr. Agenbroad and his crew could arrive. Dr. Agenbroad’s first look at the number of bones exposed by the bulldozer told him there were at least four to six mammoths. He knew there had to be more.

      Because of another commitment at the Hudson-Meng Bison kill site near Crawford, NE, Dr. Agenbroad asked his colleague Dr. Jim Mead (now Mammoth Site Chief Scientists and Site Director), and several members of his Arizona dig crew to spend 10 days salvaging and stabilizing the bones, tusks, teeth, and skull fragments that had been exposed. Land owner, Phil Anderson, offered to halt his housing project until they had a better handle on what was there. This short excavation proved significant, as an unprecedented number of specimens were uncovered.

      Our next stop was the 'World Fossil Finder Museum.' with an amazing amount of real fossilized bones and assembled ice age animal skeletons. We head North to Custer for a late lunch and some grocery shopping. Back at camp for reading around the campfire and relaxing. It cools off nicely and we have no problem sleeping.      Read more

    • TravelerMount Rushmore Rally
      Day 7

      Day Seven

      September 11, 2022 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 59 °F

      Day Seven: ///combos.nobles.signature. After a hard night's sleep we are ready to go. We head out on a morning game drive with coffee in hand. We start with Prairie Dogs. Adorable and high energy these guys are fun to watch! Another 5 miles of driving brings us to roughly 350 Bison! They are everywhere. We thought we had seen a bunch in Yellowstone... Let's just say it was a show of force here in South Dakota! Beautiful drive to complete the loop, followed by breakfast at the Legion Lake Lodge. Late showers and we head North on the Needles Highway. A wonderful 37 mille twisty, turny climb through several 1930's hand cut tunnels, ending in massive Granite spires that look like they, and you are on another planet. We head into town for some shopping before returning to camp for an early start by the campfire. Once again the sun sets and the cold rushes in. Cloudless night with a full moon make for some spooky lighting under the trees.Read more

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