Category Archives: South Dakota

On our last night in the Black Hills, we hit another roadfood.com joint — the Bumpin Buffalo in Hill City. We all ordered buffalo burgers. I got mine with onion rings and was very pleased with it all. We wandered … Continue reading →

On Sunday afternoon, three of us hiked the Sunday Gulch trail in Custer State Park. My wife has an ongoing problem with her ankle that causes her a lot of pain. She was OK with the relatively flat trail around … Continue reading →

In 2000, the fine folks of Rapid City decided to put life-sized statues of all the presidents on street corners in the downtown area. We parked and walked two blocks up one street and two blocks back down the next … Continue reading →

Dinosaur Park, on a hill above Rapid City, South Dakota, was constructed to “perpetuate the facts of history.” It was built in 1936, funded by Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration. For years it was run as a private concession, but since … Continue reading →

We climbed one of the rocks. I brought the Red Chair and placed it so I could take a photo with the Needles Eye, a slot in one of the rocks. We discovered that the Needles were only about a … Continue reading →