Where to Next? Rapid City, South Dakota

Most of today's drive is on

Interstate 90 West.

"Roadside Shredded Wheat"

Harvested hay is bundled into

large circular bales.

 

Eric pulls onto the road shoulder

to take a picture of our odometer.

We've driven our 2004 Winnebago

Vectra 100,000 miles since we

purchased it in July 2011.

Do Lunch

OR

Be Lunch

Wall Drug

We share this section of the

 westbound lane of Interstate 90

West with eastbound traffic.

The Firetruck catches my eye...

Downtown Rapid City

Firehouse Brewery & Winery

Eric looks a the GPS and asks me to get ready to take pictures.

He listed the location of this

Sculpture of a Skeleton Man

 walking a Dinosaur in Murdo.

Eric found this on Atlas Obscura.  We are making a couple of other stops because of Atlas Obscura entries in this region of South Dakota.

The small figure

on the left is me 

returning from 

taking photos at

a Prairie Overlook.

Eric & I stop at Prairie Dog Town

 next the Conoco Gas Station in

Philip to watch Prairie Dogs.

Eric found Prairie Dog town at RoadsideAmerica.com.

Just up the road is the

Giant Praire Dog Statue

at The Ranch Store of

the Badlands.

The Prairie stretches out

before us.

We leave Interstate 90 to visit

Badlands National Park.

Next stop...

Wall Drug: The Free

Ice Water Store

Eric puts his feet up

for about an hour.

Rapid City is 50 miles away.

He gets pictures of this 

Air Planel Weather Vane

in Shadehill.

RoadsideAmerica comes through again with another roadside oddity.

The Reptile Gardens Train sign

Welcome to Box Elder

Home of Ellsworth Air Force Base

We take Exit 61 to

South Dakota Highway 79

toward Mount Rushmore &

the Crazy Horse Memorial.

A glimpse of a Rapid City

neighborhood

The Dinosaur Museum

Welcome to 

Rushmore Shadows Resort

Registration takes 

just a few minutes.

Eric & I have a spacious pull

through campsite with 50 amp

electric service, water &

electric hookups