Vacation pics (lots)

[Tubby & Peanut's Mom]

Ok, since Basement Boy seems to be settling in nicely and for the most part I'm caught up at work and next week we're heading out for another vacation (extra long July 4 weekend), I figured it's time to get our vacation pictures up.

We have a friend who lives near Boise, ID and they just bought a big motorhome last year too, so we decided we'd meet "1/2 way" which turned out to be the Black Hills of SD - you know, Mt Rushmore and all?

So when we first got there, we stayed at a KOA campground right near Mt Rushmore.


The amazing part was, we came 1000 miles, they came 1000 miles, and as we were pulling in, I heard an air horn behind us - sounded like a fire truck or something. I asked Terry what it was and he said it was our friends, they were right behind us!!! We couldn't have planned it that way if we tried! So the KOA is a HUGE campground. We were parked way in the back of the pic, on the left side (dont' bother looking, even I couldn't see us but we're there!) It was a nice campground with all the amenities like a few pools, evening entertainment (cowboy singers and such), ice cream shop, horse stable, cabins - you name it.

So the first day we took a ride through Custer State Park. It's a beautiful park, some wooded and some plains, where the buffalo roam free.


It's really cool because a lot of the time the buffalo will be on the road, and you have to just sit and wait until they move - unless you want to try shooing a buffalo off the road....I'll wait. There are other forms of wildlife too, like Big Horn sheep....


.....antelope, prairie dogs, etc. And they all roam free so you really have to be careful when driving. Unfortunately this time we didn't see the herds of Buffalo anywhere near the road, but the local Donkey herd sure knows how to work it.


If you stay in your car and roll the windows down, they will stick their heads right in the car looking for handouts. Don't want to try this with a buffalo!

We had packed a lunch, and fortunately the donkeys didn't get to it, so we found a gravel road that turned into ruts (we're so excited to have 4 wheel drive!) that eventually led to a real peaceful picnic spot.


It was really a beautiful day.