DAY 25 Wed

Lots of interstate the first half of the day but the road has no fences, no billboards and crossing the South Dakota plains you can see for miles in every direction. When we reached the Badlands we headed off onto twistys right into the heart of the Badlands. Walking out onto a lookout point you could almost see Butch and Sundance heading into a canyon, very forbidding country.

Leaving the Badlands drove right into the grassy plains where the buffalo roam but the ones we saw were very lazy, no roaming just standing around. Prairie Dogs by the hundreds on both sides of the road plus a few prairie dog relatives that wouldn't make it home for dinner. I was in the lead and one of the little critters started across the road but stopped when he heard my Harley coming. He stayed still until all the Harleys had passed then ran out in front of Bruce (he missed him) but it proves the old Harley T-shirt right, "LOUD PIPES SAVE LIVES".

Spending the night in Keystone, SD in the mountains on the west side of South Dakota, right by Mount Rushmore. Tomorrow we will do the tourist thing around this area,the Black Hills before heading northwest.