Sheridan Laundry

Even on the road, mundane things must be done, like the Laundry. Today was laundry day. While Lou and Dawn went out shopping, I worked on the Blog and got some pictures labeled and published. We hit the road about 2pm. We stopped at "Custer's Last Stand", at Little Big Horn Battlefield. Nothing exciting there though?

Stopped for the night in Billings.

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Little Big Horn

Sheridan, Wy

We arrived in Sheridan Wyoming. We took a trip out to Big Horn to look around. Looked over the cometary there. Some family members are there like my Grandfather (1847-1903). We went to the fair in Sheridan. The big feature is the Pig Wrestling Contest. They have small, free fairs here in Wyoming. No carnivals, no commercial booths.


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Sheridan

Gillette, Wy

We got up early to beat the heat and hiked the Red Bluffs Trail around the outskirts of Devils Tower.






We then headed toward Sheridan. We stopped in Gillette. We found a nice restaurant, Humphrey's (Known everywhere else in the region as Sanford's, but has the different name in Gillette). We went to the fair. An amazing fair complex and it was free. Not all that much there though. We hit the road again and stopped about 7:30pm for the night in a rest stop due to extremely high winds.

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Devils Tower
Gillette

Devils Tower, Wy

We dashed up to take a morning walk around the tower with the ranger. Our primary concern was to get the refrigerator working. It tripped the GFI when we tried to use it on electricity and the gas flame wouldn’t light. A little hairdryer use eventually cleared up both problems. The rain yesterday had been almost horizontal from the left, the side the refrigerator vent is on. We opted to move to the KOA campground just outside the park so we would have air conditioning since it will be about 95 this afternoon.

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Sturgis and Deadwood,SD

Toured Sturgis, SD. They’re preparing for the big biker rally. There are more vendor tents than brick stores. There are more bars than vendors.

We then went to Deadwood. It is now a little Reno but the village atmosphere remains. A nice place to visit but you wouldn’t want to live there.

We headed on to Devils Tower. We ran in to a deluge. It rained so hard we had to pull over when we found a wide spot in the road. Some water got through the windows. We spent a while drying out. We camped in the park for the night. We couldn’t get the refrigerator to stay on.

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Sturgis
Deadwood

Mt Rushmore, SD

We left Comanche Park campground in Custer headed for Mt Rushmore. Boy has Mt Rushmore changed! It’s really been developed and now has a crowd to match. We then headed for Rapid City to get an Oil change and look around.

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Mount Rushmore

The Caves

We left hot springs and went to Wind Cave National Park, SD. We took a special tour of the cave with Dawn so she could see the formations. She really doesn’t like them normally due to the poor light, the distance to the formations and the steps. All those were handled by a very nice Ranger when he gave us the special tour.

We then went to The National Wood Carving Museum in Custer.

And finally Lou and Don took another Cave tour at Jewel Cave. We spent the night in a Forest Service Campground west of Custer.


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Custer Campground
Wind Cave
Jewel Cave
Wood Carving Museum