Hi everyone! Welcome back to my channel so we just
crossed the border from wyoming into south dakota and so we are going to
spend our day here in south dakota we're going to be heading out
to mount rushmore and go to custer state park take needles highway down
because that's a really popular road in caster state park
just kind of do a little exploring and then we're going to head over to the
wind cave national park we've never been to
that national park um just to check it out there's supposed
to be a cave there but it's closed um but we're just gonna drive through it
and see if we can see the animals or something while we're there
and then we're also gonna be hitting up the badlands on our way out
of rapid city here so stay tuned as we explore south dakota if you are just
tuning in we were just spent a week out in glacier
national park so that is where we're coming from
so we are on our way back home to minnesota and we've decided to spend
some time here in south dakota just kind of reliving it because the last time we
were in this area was in 2011 so we're excited to kind of see
it all again yeah it's gonna be a good day so follow along
so we just crossed into south dakota and there's two
beautiful elk here on the side of the road i didn't even know south dakota
had elk this is so cool we're kind of by the
jewel cave monument area where these ladies
are hanging
we are on our way to mount rushmore and along the way
is crazy horse so this is really cool you can see it right from the highway or
you can go inside and tour it if you like but we're
just taking a quick peek here from the highway
oh my gosh there's mountain goats i had no idea south dakota had mountain goats
too this is a big surprise again oh mama and baby they're so cute
just got to mount rushmore it's right in front of us
it is sturgis this week and and i didn't know that when we booked the ship not
that that matters because we're not here that long but
wow there's a lot of bikers in sturgis so
yeah it's quite loud i don't know what sturgis is it is a
extremely large like motorcycle rally right yeah and so lots and lots and lots
of bikers come out here it happens every year in august i think
it's like a one or two week event so yeah
so we just got to custer state park here so we're just going to do some exploring
and this is where you drive needles highway which is a very popular
uh road here in custer
so one thing about custer state park is these
really unique like rock formations i really know
pointy yeah they're pointy needles hence needles highway but they're really
different they're so cool remember the first year
back in 2011 when we came here we thought this was like the coolest thing
and it still is the coolest thing it's very unique
to wendy cave national park here in south dakota and just over here by
the sign we got some pronghorns
we got some prairie dogs look at him hi buddy
you look like a statue
buffalo more prayer dogs
we're heading to sushi
to badlands at national park there's buffaloes roman
and dusting way over here prairie ducks and more prairie dogs so this is our
last stop here in south dakota now that we're here in the badlands
and yeah we're excited to be back here it's been 2011 since we were here so
it's pretty cool to see this all again
so you have seen these billboards on every single
highway street for miles and miles and miles
miles and miles do you know what i'm talking about
come on for those of you who've been to south dakota what billboards do you see
everywhere
wall drug so that's where we're at because we had to come see it yeah they
lured us in just to go see it not buying anything
not buying anything we don't buy we don't do that when we're
traveling we don't buy a bunch of crap we're minimalists yeah we're minimalists
when we travel with that stuff so yeah let's go check
out wall drug
so basically wall drug is like a mall there's like just
tons of shops and a bunch of stuff and yeah pretty much that's what it is so if
you've ever wondered what wall drag is it's like a rustic mall that has
anything you can imagine that's touristy all right you guys we're gonna end our
vlog here we just checked into our hotel we are staying in
wall south dakota tonight and we're going to be sleeping in sunflowers
yeah as you can see thank you guys so much for watching this
vlog if you have any questions of course comment below
and if you're interested be sure to go watch my other videos from our road trip
out to glacier national park and we also did a little exploring and teddy
roosevelt national park up in north dakota on the way out to glacier so
definitely go check out those blogs and if you haven't already give this video a
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we will see you guys in the next vlog Bye!