Day 2...and much improved!

Started out the day with a good chuckle as we surveyed our surroundings and then got the HELL outta there! First stop was a mere 2 1/2 hours down the road...BADLANDS!!! Beautiful, inspiring, Mars-like. At the time we arrived out thermostat was reading 82 degrees, and by the time we exited the west end of the park, 88 degrees!!

After leaving the Badlands we just had to make the required stop at Wall Drug. I had been there before and warned Jeff it was simply a tourist spot full of tourist shit and yet...

Yes, I bought the prerequisite "cowboy hat". In my defense...Jeff bought 2 !! Well, I think I look pretty cool and it actually fits my huge head (XLarge).

We proceeded on to our campground destination of Custer State Park. Amazing how the landscape changed from barren, flat and boring to mountains of evergreen and buffalo grazing on the side of the road. Now I have to back up a little. Jeff is driving (of course) and as soon as we entered Custer the road started going up,up,up and from side to side. I was relatively calm as Jeff seemed to be handling the BP and the road like an old trucker. We were just about half way up the mountain and I actually complimented Jeff on his driving skill. He replied with a comment about how tight his a--h--- was feeling (an attempt to let me know this was not as easy as it appeared to be). We rounded yet another "hairpin" corner and lo and behold, 3 Buffalo, two to the left and one to the right, grazing inches from the roadside. They were completely unconcerned with the presense of the BB/BP bearing down on them. Jeff and I were just astounded. We actually believed that buffalo grazed in lowland prairies, not mountain top roadsides. Silly us!

We did manage to find our camp and get tucked in for the night but that itself was not without humor. This is clearly not a "big rig" friendly campground as the entrance was a winding dirt road wedged neatly between large pine trees. The BP BARELY fit, but again....Jeff did me proud and didn't take down a single tree! We have tenters the the left and tenters to the right making us the most conspicouos "condo-campers" ever. Here these people are sitting on thier camp sttols around the fire with thier jugs of water nearby and we are sitting out on our luxury loungers, set upon our damn big ass rug sipping wine from our real glass wine glasses. Ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. But fun....and comfortable.