Black Hills Of South Dakota



We made it out of Wyoming but barely. The spring, first day of summer brought tornadoes to southern Wyoming and western South Dakota.................... welcome to my life. It has rained every night but the days have been pretty good. We drove into Sturgis to see what the excitment was and found a lot of motorcycle shops and t-shirt shops. Neat little town of about 11,000.




We also rode our iron horse into Deadwood. I don't know if ya'll know but Wild Bill Hickock was shot while playing poker.  Some coward named Jack McCall shot Bill in the back. Remember, you heard it here first. Sorry to bring you bad news this way but somebody has to spread the news.





The downtown is really neat to walk around. It has a lot of stores but every one has a few slot machines or poker tables that you can try your luck at. But welcome to my world...................... guess what happened while we were there...................





HAIL


but it turned out to be a good day and tomorrow we are going to Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse. Stay tuned for more "Days of our Lives...."

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