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 GPS nor [...]

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. 350) [...]

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 high [...]

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 are [...]