It is now July 26 and time to leave Custer State Park after 5 lovely days and head to Montana via Deadwood, Sturgis and Battle of Little Big Horn.  Well, that was the plan, anyway. We left Custer and drove onthe Needles Highway which we were told was quite a wonderful drive.  Little did we [...]

Custer, Wind Cave Hot Springs Custer is a cute little town at the edge of Custer State Park where we spent an evening listening to the strangest outdoor show called The Magic Banjo, all about a banjo that conjures up folks from the past.  Well, the banjo player wasn’t great, the 1881 folks were quite [...]

The day afterRushmore we decided to take a very long drive to visit Wounded Knee and the Badlands. MY OPINION: I have to interject an editorial here about Wounded Knee.  As we always do, we research the site we are visiting in the AAA book and on a map and on the GPS.  Neither our [...]

Black Hills On to the Big Faces!  We were quite confident that we could find a campsite in Custer State Park, near Mt. Rushmore, since there were many different campgrounds to choose from.  So, on the way, we stopped for breakfast at a great restaurant, called Crazy Woman Café, in an adorable little town (pop. [...]

Thermopolis and Medicine Lodge The Ranger at Sinks Canyon told us that if we liked his park, we would love medicine Lodge State Park, and since it was in the direction we were going, we took off.  We stopped along the way to visit Thermopolis, the site of a wonderful 104 degree hot springs. The [...]

Sinks Canyon State Park One of the real appeals of traveling for over three months is the ability to change plans.  We had originally discounted the idea of traveling to South Dakota to see the big faces, but realized that we did, indeed have the time to include them in our trip. So, no we [...]

Salt Lake City Our main goal after leaving Canyonlands was to find a campsite with a SHOWER.  So we called two friends that we met in Telluride and found out that there were two state campgrounds about an hour outside of Salt Lake.  We chose Utah lake State park in Provo, home of Brigham Young [...]

Canyonland I insisted that we leave Ken’s Lake in Moab very very early to get to Canyonlands since we wanted to stay in the park and we were shut out of Arches.  So, much to David’s dismay, we were on the road by 7:30 am and got to the almost empty Canyonland’s campgrounds by 10 [...]

Based o several emails we have recently received, we want to clear up a possible misconception.  Although the blogs faithfullyr ecreate the order in which we visit all the sites, it does not reflect the DATE on which we visit them. Due to travel in remote areas; difficulties finding hotspots; vagaries of connections; lack of [...]

Moab We planned to stay in Moab a good long time and ended up staying 5 full days.  Our stay was made most pleasant because Dylan’s friends the Moreau’s lived there and made our lives very easy.  The National Park campground was filled so we stayed in Ken’s Lake, a dry, non-electric campground with a [...]