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Reisende On the road ’cross the USA II
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- 9. jul. 2017
- ☀️ 34 °C
- Høyde: 1 433 m
- Forente stater South Dakota Custer County State Game Lodge Center Lake 43.80535, -103.4231243°48’19” N 103°25’23” W
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Black Hills
9. juli 2017, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 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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Wisconsin ✅
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South Dekota ✅
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Reisende Just Nine days and visiting four US states, must be a lot of miles...
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Ziemlich viel los bei euch, echt super 🖒
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Reisende USA
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- 13. mai 2017, 18:12
- ⛅ 24 °C
- Høyde: 1 446 m
- Forente stater South Dakota Custer County State Game Lodge Galena Creek 43.743032, -103.41602943°44’35” N 103°24’58” W
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Black Hills in South Dakota
13. mai 2017, Forente stater ⋅ ⛅ 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.Les mer
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Bret Alldredge Road Trip
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- 27. jun. 2016, 22:02
- 🌙 17 °C
- Høyde: 1 258 m
- Forente stater South Dakota Custer County State Game Lodge 43.76087, -103.374743°45’39” N 103°22’29” W
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Second day's drive
27. juni 2016, Forente stater ⋅ 🌙 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.Les mer
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Reisende The Dolores Diaries
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- 28. okt. 2017, 20:04
- 🌙 7 °C
- Høyde: 4 147 ft
- Forente stater South Dakota Custer County State Game Lodge 43.76104, -103.376943°45’40” N 103°22’37” W
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Devils tower/ Dead presidents
28. oktober 2017, Forente stater ⋅ 🌙 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?

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Bret Alldredge Road Trip
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- 28. jun. 2016, 16:35
- 🌧 19 °C
- Høyde: 1 259 m
- Forente stater South Dakota Custer County State Game Lodge 43.76153, -103.3771343°45’42” N 103°22’38” W
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Crazy roads, crazy trail.
28. juni 2016, Forente stater ⋅ 🌧 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.Les mer
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Matthijs Travels US Rockies
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- 5. sep. 2019, 19:10
- ☀️ 22 °C
- Høyde: 1 432 m
- Forente stater South Dakota Custer County State Game Lodge Center Lake 43.80481, -103.4206243°48’17” N 103°25’14” W
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Central Lake Campground
5. september 2019, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
After a busy day, I'm sleeping at the Central Lake campground. They don't have firewood here, so used some dead branches and pinecones.
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Alaska 2024
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- 20. mai 2024
- ☁️ 43 °F
- Høyde: 4 741 ft
- Forente stater South Dakota Custer County State Game Lodge Center Lake 43.805153, -103.4239543°48’19” N 103°25’26” W
Dag 9
Mt Rushmore
20. mai, Forente stater ⋅ ☁️ 43 °F
425 steps let’s go! This was our second hike of the day after a treacherous 2 mile hike on steep climbs and rocky hills at Custer state park. More on that later. We ended up our day by driving allll the way to Crazy Horse Monument only for it to be covered by the thickest blanket of fog, turned around and found the Mt. Rushmore brewing co and had a much deserved dinner, beer and fries!Les mer
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Alaska 2024
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- 18. mai 2024
- ☀️ 63 °F
- Høyde: 4 741 ft
- Forente stater South Dakota Custer County State Game Lodge Center Lake 43.805294, -103.42388343°48’19” N 103°25’26” W
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Badlands National Park.
18. mai, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 63 °F
Oh the places you’ll go! The views just got better and better. We had a fantastic hike off the beaten path and my kids were like goats on the rocks! So fun… I wasn’t too far behind. We even saw a bullsnake on the trail eek!Les mer
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Reisende Mount Rushmore Rally
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- 9. sep. 2022, 19:05
- ⛅ 52 °F
- Høyde: 4 268 ft
- Forente stater South Dakota Custer County State Game Lodge 43.76, -103.37666743°45’36” N 103°22’36” W
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Day Five
9. september 2022, Forente stater ⋅ ⛅ 52 °F
Day Five: 🔥 ///combos.nobles.signature. We wake up after a night of rain. Cloudy and cool is the forecast for the day as we prep to get on the road. Head East with our first goal being Wall Drug. The various highway signs start an hour out, touting all things Wall Drug, including "Free Ice Water" , "5¢ Coffee" and "Honeymooners get free Coffee & Doughnuts!" Arriving at the block sized building we enter a maze of everything touristy! Breakfast sandwiches and doughnuts are the first stop inside the twists and turns of the overwhelming onslaught around us. Using the provided map we check out the crazy number of shops. It's a fun dose of roadside Americana for sure! The next stop is the Minuteman Missile National Historic Monument for a dose of Cold War history and an obvious refection on current events. Heading South we take in Prairie Dogs, a Homesteader's original sod house, and start to see the Badlands in the distance. Badlands National Park greets us with grey skies and a cold wind. We hike several trails down into the wind and rain formed canyons and watch Big Horn sheep. With daylight running out we head back to camp for a much needed fire! The calm but cool evening drives us inside for dinner and we then watch the Bronco football game. Sleep comes easy!Les mer
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Reisende Mount Rushmore Rally
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- 10. sep. 2022, 21:00
- 🌙 52 °F
- Høyde: 4 144 ft
- Forente stater South Dakota Custer County State Game Lodge 43.760499, -103.37626343°45’38” N 103°22’35” W
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Day Six
10. september 2022, Forente stater ⋅ 🌙 52 °F
Day Six: ///combos.nobles.signature. We wake up with the Sun and get the coffee going. It's Cave Day! After a quick breakfast we head West and enter Wind Cave National Park. During the long drive we spy Bison dung all over the road but no bison. What we do see is mile after mile of Prairie Dogs! Arrive for our guided tour of the cave and bundle up for the hour and a half we'll be underground. Wind Cave is the 7th longest cave in the world with 161.7 miles of mapped passageways. It's also known for a crisscrossing fin pattern called Boxwork. Lots of thin passages and low overhead gave the cave a closed in feeling. After our exfoliation we head into Custer for fuel and a much needed lunch before driving to our second cave tour of the day; Jewel Cave. Jewel is ranked number 3 for the longest cave at 214.7 miles of explored passages! This tour runs almost two hours and features 734 stairs. This cave is completely different from 'Wind' with huge, high ceiling rooms and lots of glittery Gypsum. This is a "living cave" with water still trickling through it and slowly making new mineral features. We get home by 6:00 and we're ready for some relaxation! It gets cold outside quickly and we're happy for the furnace! We're both pooped and sleep will be good.Les mer
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