DAY 46: Our Journey to Spearfish......

DAY 46:  Spearfish, SD - August 15, 2010

Today we removed the rock holding up the right side of the RV in Custer, SD and hit the road for Spearfish, SD on the northern edge of the Black Hills National Forest......

One thing I have been pleasantly surprised about South Dakota is its beauty.  This is truly a drop-dead gorgeous state!!  Why has no one told the rest of the states about South Dakota??

As we traveled up and then down the 2-lane mountainous roads leading to Spearfish, I was feeling a bit of the heebie-jeebies due to the narrow roads, traffic piling up behind me and the fact that my unreliable gas gauge went from 1/4 full to 1/4 empty and then back to 1/4 full......errrrrrrrrr.....

Chuck, helmet on, took a ride on his Harley.

We then came into the cute little town of Deadwood.  Now, Deadwood is named due to dead trees in its gulch.  That's kinda strange.....It's famous for the murder of Wild Bill Hickok and the final resting place for Calamity Jane.  But it's most importantly known for the the place where Chuck and Liz found gas!  YEA!  So those two lane mountain roads with traffic backing up behind me didn't bother me one bit the rest of the way to Spearfish!

We've not actually seen this yet.....but we did see....

We arrived in beautiful Spearfish and set up camp (didn't need to use the rock today). As we read about and discovered all the beautiful waterfalls and places to go and see in Spearfish, Chuck suggested we hop on the motorcycle and head on out and find some of the highlights.....such as......

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And you know, although the weather has been so nice and we have accomplished our goal of staying in "cool" states so far, we were thinking we might want to try something different..........One of our favorite shows on TV is Ice Road Truckers and I think it would be SO cool to try driving the RV up in Alaska on the Ice Highway.....what do ya think?

Liz in a new episode of "Ice Road RVers"

(I promise to quit photoshopping our faces on every picture......I've just been in a photoshopping mood lately....sorry...)