Blogs from Keystone, South Dakota, United States, North America

I've woken up this morning around 4am but feeling more human today! Still feel a bit off but well enough to be able to go onto the coach. Today is a long day of travelling. The coach trip is made up of quite a wide range of people both age & nationality. It's mainly an "older persons" tour with most couples being married for 41 years which was a bit odd!! Our Tour Leader Bob is an ex Principle so you can imagine how it's almost like we are on a school trip! He's very organised, counts everyone on & off the bus & keeps everyone in place. As with anything which involves a group there's the obligatory "ice breaker" game involving making a bow out of toilet roll?!?!?!? We start the day leaving Denver & ... read more

Let me introduce ourselves – My name is Julie Worthing. My husband is Brian Worthing and we are traveling with 3 of our 5 children. There’s Jordan, he’s 16. Then there’s Rebekah, 16 and Alida,13. And before you can even start with the “Really, 3 teenagers in the back seat?”, let me fill you in on the whole story. We’ve only been married a year … AND we are driving on a cross country two week road trip! :) No we’re not crazy but we sure appreciate this crazy mixed-up fun life we have! It’s 6:26 am and we are on the road! We missed our ideal start time of 6am but we’re well ahead of our original on the road time. 2:00pm We are about 7 hours in – so far, so good! The kids ... read more

Today was work day for everyone. Shelby and I blogged the first part of the day, and the Leta and Barbara did the wash and cleaned. That afternoon Shelby and I cooked on the grill for the travel days ahead of us. We grilled two whole chickens, a rack of ribs to be eaten on the 4th because you have to have ribs on the 4th, pork roast to be made into pulled pork, Johnsonville Brats, and cheeseburgers for supper that night.... read more

We have to leave Spokane Creek a day earlier than we wanted to, but they were booked for the 4th of July, and we are not planning our stops far enough advance to make reservations at any campgrounds. We wanted to stay in the area for another day to visit Deadwood, S.D., so after we finally got a cell phone signal in Rapid City we called Sturgis and found a campground that had plenty of space, and since we were Passport America members , were able to stay for half price. The name of the campground was BULLDOG CAMPGROUND, kindof fits with us being form Georgia, don't ya think. The people were very friendly and joked about the bulldog thing. ... read more

Today was a day to catch up a little on the blog, cook for the upcoming week, relax before heading out again.... read more

Today traveled from Wall, SD to Spokane Creek Campground, Keystone, SD. Arrived after an uneventful day, set up, and had some of Jack's wonderful chicken dumplings. Iron Mountain Road rivals The Tail of the Dragon in Fontana, North Carolina in the number of curves per mile and also has switchbacks which change your driving direction by 180 degrees.... read more

Before leaving Deadwood yesterday, we stopped to see one more Kevin Costner attraction. Costner created an amazing museum as a memorial to the Bison entitled the Story of the Bison complete with bronze sculptures. We then travelled to our home for the next 4 days, Holy Smoke Resort in Keystone, SD. After checking in, we headed to see the Rushmore Borglum Story Museum. A fantastic collection of items that tell the story of Gutzon Borglum's life. A little know fact is that Borglum spent several years in San Antonio in the 1920's and at least one of his sculptures still exists there close to the Witte Museum. His studio was in the Mill Race building in Brackenridge Park next to the golf clubhouse. BTW, that very building was restored by Joe Stubblefield & Richard Mogas in ... read more