Journey To South Dakota

A few years ago we took a vacation to the Black Hills, first trip with our shiny new truck and 5th wheel.  We were coming from Wisconsin, taking a family vacation in the Black Hills and continuing to Texas where we had purchased a home.  After the vacation I flew back to Wisconsin to load up our stuff and drag it down to Texas. 

We planned on staying in Sioux Falls, South Dakota for two nights to meet my son and brother in-law who were leaving later from Wisconsin and to see some of the sights in the area.  We all went to "Falls Park" which was a nice place to see.  Cherrie and I drove to Watertown South Dakota to visit Redlin Art Center since we both enjoy his work. 

"Falls Park"

                    

"Redlin Art Center"

We left Sioux Falls on a cold and rainy Monday morning headed toward the Black Hills. Heading down I90 we exited and took the 240 loop through the Badlands.  When we first stopped after going through the gate it was overcast and colder than a "well diggers ass", and this was July!  We spent some time exploring the sites along the loop on our way to Wall, South Dakota.






We stopped for lunch at the famous Wall Drug Store, the food and atmosphere was great.  After lunch we did some shopping, took pictures and enjoyed the attractions.  We crawled back in the truck and headed toward Rapid City

We arrived at the Rafter J Bar Ranch in Hill City, South Dakota on Monday afternoon.  After we set up we noticed some of the other RV's and cars looked like someone took a baseball bat to them, really bad shape.  We talked to some people and they told us there was a bad hail storm the day before and a lot of the cars and RV's were total losses, I'm glad we didn't push it or we would have arrived Saturday and we would of been one of those unfortunate campers.

Remember this was a vacation, 50 things to do in five days, no relaxing, go, go, go.  We didn't spent much time at camp because we were trying to fit in as much as possible.  I'll write more later about our adventures in South Dakota.

"The following are for my Grand kids"

"Happy Trails"