We traveled this trip with my brother and his wife, they drove their vintage GMC and we followed with ours. We had Smokey

And they had their brood, 2 dogs and 2 cats. One of the cats was a very small kitten.

The bigger cat knew how to open the cupboards and the little kitten walked into them to explore. Next thing you know….where’s the kitten?

So we pull over to the side of the road to look for the kitten. Personally I think the bigger cat was trying to get rid of his new little sister. After searching all the spaces they thought the kitty could be, they went back in the motorhome and the kitten was sitting in my sister-in-laws seat. “Where were you mom? I’z just sittin here keeping your seat warm for ya”. Cute kitty….and then we were off again.

This year we installed a back-up camera on our camper

That way you can see if a cop is trying to pull you over and you can floor it to ditch them.

Our first destination was Riverview RV Park in Fort Pierce SD.

It happened to be super hot that day but good thing it was windy to help at least make is feel somewhat better. There wasn’t much in the way of tree shade but it had quite the view being on a bluff. We had the whole section to ourselves.

It was farmland and grassland thru most of South Dakota. I did see 3 different groups of horses with blankets on them, from their head to their butt. It wasn’t that cold to be putting blankets on horses. Who knows why?

When we finally got to the Black Hills, the scenery was crazy cool and I know the pictures don’t do it justice.

We had good weather and nice roads to get to our next campsite, Fort Welikeit Family Campground (Don’t you just love the name We-Like-It!) near Custer State Park. The place not only had RV and tent camping, they had Teepees you could stay in and a very large barrel with a spout on the outside you could also stay in. Teepee…..too close to the ground and creepy crawlers. Barrel….to cramped and no toilet. I think I’m spoiled.

They even had a place where you could tie up your horse

The next day we all piled into our car and I drove seeing as the boys drove all the way there. We went down a few roads that my brother and his wife had taken years ago on their motorcycles. We went down Needles Eye Highway

Yup, drove thru that. Keep your arms and legs in the vehicle at all times and for gosh sakes…..don’t open your door! But what a view on the other side.

You’ve heard mention of switch back roads, well this was one of them

This one let people park their cars by it. Here we go into the turn

I know you’re saying to yourself, “well, that doesn’t look too narrow” but this is a two way street. Try to pass someone else on this road and hope they are paying attention to the traffic and not trying to take a picture with their phone. It was very nerve wracking. Both my brother and his wife commented that the roads didn’t seem so narrow on their motorcycles. Well I should hope not! You’re only about 1/4 the width of my car on your motorcycle! But I bet the ride was a lot more fun on the motorcycle.

We ran into a few more tunnels

Look out buddy, I was here first, coming thru.

See the scrapes on the roof where someone’s car was too tall. And speaking of tall, we saw a tour bus on the road! And there really aren’t any places for something like that to turn around. I wonder if it’s stuck in one of the tunnels

While we were driving around, we took this Nature road. There was supposed to be a bunch of wild life like bear, elk, buffalo, big white butt goats. We saw the donkeys

And we drove and drove and didn’t see anything until we were almost off the Nature road then we ran into a heard of buffalo

Aaaaah, baby buffalo….aren’t they cute?

And they were real close to the road

I don’t know who was in charge of my camera but they definitely didn’t take enough pictures because there were a crap load of buffalo here and there was a road jam with everyone wanting to get pictures of the buffalo. At least no one was stupid enough to get out of their car for that selfie picture.

We had to take some pictures of these old guys. What would a trip to SD be without seeing Mount Rushmore.

There was one road we drove down where you could see George Washington’s profile, that was pretty cool but again, no camera control.

We saw some other cool rock formations (at least cool in my eyes)

We finally went back to the campground and I was able to have a few shots to steady my nerves after that drive.

And get ready for a new day tomorrow.