The bison have the run of Custer State Park. When they cross the road, they amble. They seemed oblivious to cars and trucks and minivans - motorcycles they didn't really like. You could hear them grunting and making all sorts of noises. I liked watching them roll around in the dust:
Some of the elk I saw, as the bikers pulled up:
Picture South Dakota in your mind and this is what you should come up with:
One of tunnels on the Iron Mountain Highway. The white-ish area on the mountain to the right looking thru the tunnel is Mt. Rushmore:
The best tunnel, which is on the Needles Highway. It's longer than it looks and there is a 45 degree turn to the right at the other side:
The first view of Devils Tower you get on the road coming from the northern route from SD:
Pictures really don't do Devils Tower justice - I kept looking for the Mothership:
Looking down towards the Little Bighorn river from Last Stand Hill. The markers are not graves - they mark where each soldier fell. Most of the remains were moved to the cemetery located near the visitors center. Custer's' remains were moved to West Point:
Driving towards Little Bighorn, hoping to make it before closing:
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Look at the colors in that top pic and tell me that's not gorgeous.
If there was something I could do for a living there, I think we'd move to Bis, just because I love the Plains.
Thanks for sharing your pics.
Yea, but that's Kansas. I wish I had better pics (sharper colors and contrasts) of SD or Wy. I really liked the rolling grasslands. The hills. The trees. Much better smells (apart from the Bison). I wish I had made it to Rapid City - outside of the Black Hills and Plains. That might be a nice place to live.
Then again - winter. Blizzards. Motorcycle rallies.
Dude we were just at Custer and Devil's Tower.
You'll never convince a ND girl that SD would be the place to live. Boo Rapid City.
Define just there.
Custer/Black Hills/Deadwood August 28-31, Devils Tower Aug 30.
He means July.
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