We get everything? I hope so.
We're in South Dakota gonna heading up to Mount Rushmore this morning.
Beautiful day, but I don't know that it's gonna stay beautiful
There's a chance for rain, storms actually
Gonna drop some trash off here this morning before we head out
Trying to enjoy this beautiful day while it's beautiful
Obviously this RV park is
really wide open no trees but
Does have full hookups. I think she said only three was 50-amp though, right? I think so. Yeah, so only 350 in
The 50 influence yeah. Yeah, it seemed like there was something on like that
but we do yeah, we chose for the 30 amp and sewer and
we have water and we do have cable TV if you if you
Want out?
All right, so, I think we're ready to go
Okay
Let's go see our predecessors up on the mountain
Not Rushmore
Well, I think I forgot to mention turn left onto Omaha Street, then turn right onto Mount Rushmore ode
I always turn right when she's getting ready to talk. So I think I forgot to mention the RV park that we're staying at is
three flags
RV park in blackhawk, but it's all like suburbs of Rapid City. Yeah
So it's a from there. It is a 45 minute drive to the
Mount Rushmore
Monument the RV park that we're staying at we got that through passport America. It was $20 another
2727 when I was
24
still 43
And 24 48
24 and 24 is 48 it cost us 43. I wrote it down
It is $20 a night and then tax makes it 43, okay?
So yeah, just wanted to
So it's pretty close driving distance Walmart Target is only eight miles down the road
It's pretty centrally located Deadwood's just up the road. They're not very far in Sturgis
It's right along what interstate is at 19
Yeah, it's right along i-90 so it's really convenient
yeah, you can visit a lot of the
Badlands National Park, but stuck in a quarter mile. Turn right onto Mount Rushmore ode
Got a little pullover spot off to the side. So before you even get there you get a little view of the monuments
$10 for parking
It says buses are $50, but RVs are still $10
And there's no entrance fee to the National Memorial Park
It's just to park just a parking fee only
All right, so we're parked
You can actually see the monuments from the parking lot in some areas right here. We got some trees in our way, but
They're on the other side of these trees here
This is what makes this full time RV life so worth it when you get to do things like this on the weekends
Hey, you know what? I?
just realized I forgot my
phone in the car
Go back and get my phone. I love it here to do stuff like this every single weekend
Yeah, that's what really makes this lifestyle this amazing, this is really pretty
We were just talking to a guy that said he'd been here 1980 was in it was in 1980
39 years and then of this structure here was here
And they keep improving
The area so if you were here a long time ago
Maybe worth coming back
Sounds like he was really impressed
See the rain coming over there
So we have to take another trail or go around because they're doing some construction it seems like they're always making some improvements
Here's our parking lot where we were parked we can actually see our car right over here
Will appear to the monument or you can take this trail here
So we're like here we're gonna take this trail
To a closer viewing point, let's go see this closer view
Somebody's not happy
This is the top of this trail, right? Yeah, maybe trying to figure out it
I'm thinking this is it pretty neat view?
Heavy breathing is real I
Can see up their nostrils now
Is that a good thing
It's pretty clear
This guy
Are their nostrils?
They look plug to me
Tired just
Turning there
During the year, right? Yeah. Oh
Thank goodness. It's all
They say goodness. I can't even hardly talk. I'm so tired
House, I have a claim it was
And we've already we've been coming down so far and we've came down quite a ways
Very long trail, but it's all stairs. Yeah, it's either age
We're all lack of exercise or all the above. I'm the one with seeds
We came early look at the traffic now just in this area
We're heading to a recommended place to eat which is called
Alpine Inn in Hill City
And we're coming down the hill here on our way there and saw a nice KOA with a horse ranch pretty nice K away
Yeah, very nice
Here's the area where you check-in for your camping sites
Pizza ice cream and wings and fudge
And laundry and wine and expresso and grapes and grinds and more fudge
So we just pulled into Naked winery it is supposed to be a harvest host
We're gonna have to go on the other side of the building because we don't see anywhere for RVs to park
so if you're thinking about staying here, let's check this first and it says up to 44 foot lengths like
There's gotta be another area now. There's nowhere in the back right there to park
There's really nowhere here
well
Maybe that was on the side back there where you were supposed to park. I
Don't know if we're supposed to go back here or not, but I'm gonna go through here and
See because it's making wineries over there. Oh, no, you wouldn't take a motor home through. Yeah. Okay, so no
we're just trying to double check because
We don't want any of you guys coming through here and thinking you're gonna stay here if you have a big rig
I'm glad we didn't we actually were thinking about staying here. The only way you could is on that one side and
You wouldn't be able to pull in until all the traffic was gone
With this being a touristy area. I
Imagine it's pretty busy all the time
we'll go in and we'll ask in this area here would be the only area where you could
possibly park one, but you'd have to
You couldn't even make a u-turn in here with a motor home pulling a dolly
Are you
I
Said you can probably only get two 40-footers in here. But the issue is if you have a dolly you do have to
Disconnect and back in he said what they normally do is go park one back in here. So
You'll pull through
Up here and then back in
So you park right here and then the second one come here
Which that means?
You gotta kind of leave room what you're pulling a tow have to disconnect to back in here
But we would highly recommend going in and visiting the inside
It's a winery
And I was really cute in there
Michelle almost bought a hat
I'm very friendly stuff. Yeah, we did not eat there but look like a nice place to hang out
Hill City in here is Alpine in this is what we were looking for here. This is a really good place to eat
Very beautiful
Neither Michele nor I have been to this part of South Dakota before so
We are pleasantly surprised it's really pretty a full Black Hills area a lot of beautiful sights
case in point
Sugar Shack
I missed the big chair. But did you see the sign that said Sugar Shack?
Those are not tears of they're raindrops
Coming to visit Deadwood and a straight after dollar
So we came from in the Black Hills area from Mount Rushmore
Came in that way not from i-94 coming into
Deadwood
and when you first come in you think
Is this it but you keep going you keep seeing more and more now. We're on a little brick
Road, it's like an old downtown area an old courthouse
You go that way or you know this way
It's a harley-davidson store, there's casinos along the Main Street Deadwood they have a Dairy Queen
Dairy Queen, that's weird pretty sure they didn't have a Dairy Queen back in the day
Go does C. Still? Okay. Yep, the utter place
Ever ice cream espresso and the Indian lady
Bloody nose saloon
This is really cool. If you haven't been to Deadwood, you got to come and check this out
This is really cool
Homes up on the hills over here behind the Main Street
Kind of see it. There's Mustang Sally's
Here, that's Sally. I
Got your place over here. So
public parking right here on Main and Wall Street
Right by Sally
Public parking
That's a really good idea there Sally that puts on public parking in here
So it says ten dollars for it
No
Here we go
No, whammies
There
I
in here
Nice and warm cool down so much. We had a trolley that takes people around
Shall we try it now?
I'm glad we got up to Mount Rushmore before yeah
This is the saloon that Wild Bill Hickok was shot
He's late
Never ends, it's me and my friends
In Rapid City after we fuel up
At another five seven-hour drive
Good set
Don't you blame me make me crazy make me crazy
They're crossing over into Iowa