South Da”Coma”
We left from Denver and headed north to cut through Wyoming and then across South Dakota. If you have ever been on the route from Denver to Minneapolis before, you probably know you have 2 choices. You can do the southern route through Nebraska or the Northern route through South Dakota. These are 2 fine choices. Both are boring as hell.
We hit Cheyenne, Wyoming on the way up there (apparently the cheapest gas in the country…I wouldn’t have called out …WOW that was cheap but it might have been a few cents less or something) and we were in South Dakota by lunch time.
Mount rushmore, the Black hills and the Badlands make South Dakota a supeirior route to Nebraska. I think Micah enjoyed seeing them for the first time. I enjoyed seeing them again and they seemed different as I was to see them 20 or so years later. Everyone at Mt. Rushmore spoke a different language! It was still quite cold out. We saw it as we got out of the truck but still walked up to the viewing area. There wasn’t anything open as it is still winter season. There really wasn’t much reason for us walking up there but we had come all that way and we thought we would make it the last few steps. It is a lovely sight! Did you know each one of their eyes is 10 foot across?! Awesome.
We caught a quick glance at the Crazy Horse memorial but I missed getting a picture as it was gone in an instant.
The black hills are spectacular and unlike other mountains. Really beautiful! We spent the night in the Black hills near Rapid City, SD where the hooved goat man licked our trailer windows at night (our made up story for rattling windows and creature in the night). Still quite cold and no one around but nice. We ran out of propane right before going to bed and looking back, we probably should have went to exchange that tank before we went to bed. The dogs woke up and were shivering. poor things. We almost had dogcicles that night!
The last thing we did before we headed into South Da”coma” was to ride the Badlands loop. the badlands are so interesting and we got pictures of some prairie dogs as well as some mountain goats! Awesome!
Then…we were in South Dakota for another day or two. At least that is what it seemed like! It was insane how long it took from Rapid city to Jackson, Minnesota (My aunt rosie and uncle vern live there and we bunked with them for the night).
