Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Day 84 (Aug 8) – Painted Canyon, TRNP


We hitched up and headed out of North Dakota this morning.  About 4 miles down I-90 was a second entrance and VC for the South Unit called Painted Canyon.  I wanted to go watch the morning sun light up the canyon yesterday, but it was rainy.  This morning it was cloudy, so I had given up.  But just as we approached the exit, the sun started peeking out.  We pulled off and found a beautiful view of the canyon right off the VC parking lot.  BONUS!

Then we drove about 5 hours south.  We got to drive right through Sturgis the week of the annual motorcycle rally.  That was entertaining.  We drove on through to south of Rapid City to an RV campground.  We are about 14 miles from Mt. Rushmore/Keystone, SD.

Brad got the laptop antenna to work and it picked up NBC!  Olympics!  (Beach volleyball!  Go Misty and Kerri!)  I made a quick supper and then Brad went to the grocery and to get the oil changed.  The girls and I watched Olympics till bedtime.

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