Category: South Dakota
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Day 55, South Dakota to Illinois, 583 Miles, May 28th
583 RV miles today, 9,193 total We left North Sioux City, South Dakota into Sioux City, Iowa then South Sioux City, Nebraska in this Tri-State city. Kind of reminded me of our visit to Four Corners in the Southwest where Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico & Utah join together. A marathon drive today with the blustery…
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Day 54, The Badlands of South Dakota, Wall Drugs, Minuteman Missiles, May 27th
478.6 RV miles today, 8,610 total After a pancake breakfast at Rafter J’s, we headed past Hill City to the famous Wall’s Drugstore since 1931. Then onto the Badlands National Park, with its peaks, gullies, butts & prairies. Then onto the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site (where I sat in one of the red commander…
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Day 53, Mt. Rushmore, Crazy Horse Monuments, May 26th
72.3 RV miles today, 8,131.4 total We went back to Mt. Rushmore in the daylight & to hike the Presidential Trail. After a lunch of bison burger & bison chili, we visited the Crazy Horse Monument. We relaxed in the afternoon going into Hill City & then went back to Crazy Horse Memorial for the laser…
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Day 52, Estes Park, CO to Mt. Rushmore, South Dakota via Wyoming, May 25th
402.3 RV miles today, 8,059.1 total Drove to Bear Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park to visit where we had taken our kids ~17 years ago. Then traveled up through Wyoming with Toby riding “shotgun” over to South Dakota to our Rafter J Bar Ranch RV campsite. After dinner, drove the short distance to Mt.…