Blogs from Rapid City, South Dakota, United States, North America - page 2

Bonjour à tous, Je crois qu'aujourd'hui, c'est la première fois, depuis mon départ, que j'aurais eu du mauvais temps toute la journée. Un jour sur 62 je ne vais pas pleurer. Il y a 2 ans je devais être aux environ de 45 jours de pluie. Malgré la pluie, la journée à été très agréable et diversifiée. Un peu de interstate (autoroute) ce matin sur 50 km, jusqu'à Moorcroft, ou en parallèle il y a des voies de chemin de fer, avec des trains de charbon, que j'ai estimé à 200 wagons. J'ai raté en photo la mine à ciel ouvert, qui était gigantesque. A Moorcroft, je prends une petite route pour me rendre à la Devils Tower. Sur l'autoroute il y avait très peu de circulation, mais maintenant je suis quasiment tout seul. Je me ... read more

Well we started the drive off good we took US-191 to I-90, stopped at two Goodwill stores to find new books for Daisy since she already finished the 4 books in the Twilight Series. Then we went to stop for lunch at McDonald's and I heard a hissing noise from the trailer, Nate looked the trailer over and found we had the start of a flat tire. Luckily Nate was prepared and ordered 5 tires before summer so that gave us a new tire to put on. Nate kept his cool and replaced the tire, we ate lunch and continued on our drive. Oh and we bought a tire pressure monitoring system for the trailer as an added safety measure that went off shortly after we discovered the leak and we would defiantly recommend having one ... read more

We stayed in a great RV park called Heartland RV Park at Hermosa, SD that was really close to Mt. Rushmore. The owner was really nice and gave us several maps and suggestions for day trips. We spent extra time here because it was such a nice place and we didn't want to travel on Memorial Day weekend. Our first day we went to Bear Country and Reptile Gardens. Bear Country was great and we actually went to it again on the weekend when Bonnie's granddaughter came to visit. The animals are loose in each of their areas in the park and we drove through to see all of them. The bears were really fun and were doing lots of entertaining things, like playing in the water, patrolling the gate openings, and scratching them selves on ... read more

Well we ended the trip with a 4 day visit to the Rapid City area. Here we visited the Bear Country drive through zoo. We saw many different species of wildlife here but by far the bears were the best. We then spent the next few days Harley riding through the area visiting Custer State Park, Needles Highway, Deadwood, Sturgis, Keystone. Before leaving we had an awesome dinner at the Dakota Steakhouse. We then loaded up and headed for home. It was a long 13 hour drive but we made it in one day. Now we will be enjoying our time in Wisconsin spending some time with the family here and getting caught up on things at home. We will spend some of the winter months planning our next adventure around the states and then abroad. ... read more

We are well on our way to Yellowstone. We left in the early morning of Monday April 13. Originally planning to leave the afternoon of the 12th, we were still busy with last minute tasks and visiting with dear friends and family until early evening, so we just got some sleep and headed out early. Had a great day Sunday with the kids and friends. Had a great service at church, the preacher was pretty good if I do say so myself (haha, it was Jack for those who didn’t know). Great spirit, powerful prayer, wonderful blessing! On Monday we traveled nearly 700 miles. Ran into a little rain, but overall it was a great day, pretty light traffic. Stopped for breakfast, then for a nap, then supper, and finally for the night Walmart camping in ... read more