Sioux Falls, SD to Northwood Iowa via Forest City, IA

April 19, 2011

Total driving distance:  about 222 miles.  It snowed all day today, and there is about two inches of snow on the ground, with another inch or so likely overnight. We are at the Diamond Jo casino in Northwood, Iowa. We detoured a bit off I-90 to go to the home of Winnebago and go through [...]

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Rapid City, SD to Sioux Falls, SD

April 18, 2011

First, a bit from the last couple of days. We did go to Deadwood on Saturday, and the weather was cool but nice.  Unfortunately there was nothing to see or do in Deadwood in April unless you are a gambler or are really into the history of old towns.  We stopped at the visitor center, [...]

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April 15, 2011 – Custer State Park, South Dakota

April 15, 2011

Today we drove into Custer State Park, and followed the wildlife loop road.  The deer and bison were easy to find, but we didn’t see any mountain goats or any other interesting animals.  They were quite close to the road in some areas, I was a little worried they would jump out in front of [...]

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Wednesday, April 13, 2011 – Rapid City, SD

April 13, 2011

We got a bit of snow overnight, but most of it was melted before we got going.  We knew we didn’t want a long trip today, so we went to the South Dakota Air and Space Museum at Ellsworth Air Force Base just east of town.  There were a bunch of aircraft outside, and a [...]

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Mount Rushmore & Crazy Horse – Rapid City, SD

April 12, 2011

Got up early and headed the 25 miles or so to Mt. Rushmore.  We were some of the first arrivals, so there were no other people in the way to get lots of great pictures.  We watched the introductory film and looked in the museum, then took the trail. Some of the native rock formations [...]

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Devil’s Tower, Wyoming to (just outside of) Rapid City, South Dakota

April 11, 2011

We only drove about 135 miles today, and 25 of those miles were backtracking back to I-90 from the Devil’s Tower.  We are at Mystery Mountain Resort just outside of Rapid City and (right) along the highway to Mt. Rushmore.  It is a bit noisy right now, but hopefully as it gets darker, the traffic [...]

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Sunday, April 10 – Devil’s Tower National Monument

April 10, 2011

We went to Devil’s Tower today.  Yesterday, we drove up and paid our entrance fee and looked inside the visitors center, but the park closes at 4:00 this time of year, so we decided to wait until today to do the 1.3 mile loop around the base of the rock.  It took us about 90 [...]

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