we decided to camp here in custer south dakota this week at a small campground called
french creek campground we'll work here during the day and explore the area in the evenings
we have 30 amp service only with a dump station fresh water as well as shower facilities if needed
we came down to sylvan lake here this evening each night after work we're gonna
do a little something we're hoping to get to rent one of the sling shots and go through
needles highway too because this is too tall not sure how far the walk is around this lake
with these rocks in the water it kind of reminds me of that, i can't remember the name of the
lake in arizona. watson, i think? i believe you're right. i can't believe you remembered that. well.
the gorgeous sylvan lake is located in custer state park in the black hills of south dakota
it was created in 1891 when theodore redder built a dam across sunday gulch creek
the lake area offers picnic places rock climbing small rental boats swimming and hiking trails
so here's a little tip if you have a van or one of these grech strada-ions and
you have water leaking from when it rains and you're not sure where it's coming from and it's
coming on each side of the van on the inside it's probably coming from the roof from the ac unit
where the ac meets the roof and the reason why is they have a gasket and sometimes those aren't
tightened up just enough or they get a little bit of movement and it causes a leak
it's pretty common it's easy to fix you don't have to get on the roof take the cover off of the ac unit
and make sure that the uh the bolts are snugged up a little bit so there's the cover right there
it's just these screws right here there was one here one here one right here and right here
so that would be these little vents right here and they're really hard to see
you have to turn those vents just right to get to them in the filter area that's that area
and that area there's a screw hole there a screw hole there and there
and there but before you do that make sure you take the filters out before you take
those screws off and before you take the cover off those filters go in through here
and if you left them on into the cover it would break them maybe they wouldn't come off
unless you broke them so what we're going to do here is we've got a bolt here to tighten
and then we've got one here you can see it cinches this bolt cinches down the ac to the roof and then
you've got another one right here same thing it cinches it down to the roof around that gasket
you don't want to go too far because if you did what would happen is it would squeeze that gasket
too far and then it will leak tonight we are going to iron mountain road and we're going to
go through a couple tunnels so we heard that it's a really uh beautiful drive it is 6 45 right now
so hopefully we'll get through the best of it before it turns dark the road's not going to
turn dark it's going to get dark i should rephrase that in 14 miles keep left onto
so
we're at what's called norbeck overlook
ah
uh
wow
custer wolf that was pretty good food it was everything tasted very fresh nice selection lots
of gluten free it's definitely a good solid eight yes so i had the hamburger surprise
i had the walleye po boy yep that was good and the potato smashers yeah it's a red potato they
smash it they fry it in a deep fryer and then they they smash it cook it i think and then
fry it in a deep fryer and then put like parmesan on it it's like a
i don't know hash brown patty sort of in a way yeah but different
all right that's all we just want to let you guys know if
you come here that's a good place to eat yeah we're doing a team and we're
doing a tank we're going to rent a slingshot and go to needles highway
she's not driving pray for us then you'll hit the start button
your park pass is right there make sure you point at that otherwise they will charge you
for it we did it we've got one of the new 2022 slingshots said they just got them one of the only
only ones out there around the area supposed to be pretty fast so you see how fast it
me and goes hope you understand
that i am not quite ready but i think that soon i am i know i like this thing
i want to go fast oh man
you understand that i am
this is
we should have rented this on roads that we could take over
20 miles per hour thank god i don't have to go over 20. oh we did just not in the park
very fun though maybe a couple times it's well worth it this is very fun
hey can i have a ride
breathe
look at the cars
whoa let's see what this baby will do shake and bake baby shake and bake it's shake and bake time
boy cal i don't like the way you're talking out there. damn it's all closed. haha
wooo!
[michelle screams]
i think i ate a bug
how fun. that was a blast. that was so fun. so it was uh 200 to take it out for two hours and we did the
whole needles highway um in less than two hours and we stopped twice yes yeah we stopped twice
and with photos i don't know i think we probably stopped for 15 minutes total yeah probably so just
so you have a good idea of how much time you might need to go through needles highway from
custer a complete round trip if you want to rent one of the slingshots they're fun and the tires
might bark once in a while and hope you don't have somebody driving that thinks they're a race car
driver well we've spent monday tuesday wednesday thursday and now it's friday here in the little
town of custer south dakota this is a really good place to come like if you want to be centrally
located where you can go to many different things right in the town of custer is really
nice another good thing is this park is located really close to the main strip so you can walk
if you want to from your rv and just go to these different places all these different restaurants
this place right over here we went to last night and they had a band actually got to listen to a
little bit of it right before we left and didn't have to pay the cover charge because we were
eating before but the location you can't beat it if that's what you're kind of looking for you want
to be secluded then of course go out to your like state campgrounds or some of the other boondocking
areas but again we didn't because once we got here i think it was sunday evening it was getting late
and we didn't want to drive clear back away so we just decided to stay here and splurge a little bit
we paid 220 some dollars for the what is it monday tuesday wednesday thursday four nights
no wait we had sunday night also so it's five nights so we paid a little over 220 some dollars
for five nights when we first got here we chose the electric only site because they have a free
dump station and since this is our vehicle that we disconnect every night after work if we need
to dump and get fresh water we just do it right over here at their at their station so it saved
us i think it was about 10 bucks to save if you don't need water and sewer and then on the last
day yesterday the manager here very nice guy came and asked me if we would move for one night and he
apologized because their system they had somebody booked and didn't know and the system was kind of
messed up but we had no problem with that so we came over here to a full hookup site right here
on the end it's actually a very nice site we'd definitely come here again we seriously would
and the guy that manages this place takes very good care of it and takes care of his
customers we've witnessed that a few times can't believe we're leaving custer already
i know i really love this whole area yeah it's very pretty i want to come back
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