Movin' West - Day 7

As promised, here is the next episode!

We left Interior, SD this morning at 9:30AM - a beautiful, sunny day, temps in the mid-70's. We are headed to Rapid City, SD and the Black Hills National Parks.

We stopped again at Wall Drug and had coffee (5 cents per cup!!) and split a homemade plain donut with chocolate frosting - delicious! I bought a USA Today paper and promptly had my day ruined when I read that Tom Brady will be out for the season with a torn ACL. Shit!!!

Oh, well, c'est la vie, I guess. Anyway, we left Wall and headed west to Rapid City. What a booming (?) metropolis! This is by far the dirtiest city we have encountered in all of SD and IA. Reminds me of a big city back home. We are relying on our GPS (Garmin Street Pilot 7200) to get us to our destinations. Today, it really screwed up! We were trying to get to Hermosa, SD, to a campground called "Heartland RV Park", and it directed us to a place called "Hart Ranch". This wouldn't have been so bad, but the rates here are ridiculous, so we turned around and headed back to the main road. We finally found Heartland RV Park, which was about 9 miles further south. This is a great place, especialy since we get the site for 1/2 price!

Since we arrived later in the PM than we expected, we had a quick bite to eat (I grilled a couple of hot dogs), loaded the dogs into the car, and headed into downtown Rapid City to scout it out. We were looking for the Geological Museum, and were going on the directions of one of the locals back at the campground, who told us "not to miss this museum". Unfortunately, his directions were less than accurate and we never found the place.

Tomorrow morning we are headed out to see Mt. Rushmore, the Crazy Horse monument, and the Buffalo plains in Custer State Park. Look for pictures soon.

I hope everyone got to see the pictures I put up on my Picasa Web Album. I believe we sent an invitation to everyone. If we forgot to include you, let us know via e-mail, or by commenting on this blog.

Stay tuned for Day 8!