We did the touristy things in South Dakota, visited the monuments (which are nestled along some really twisty roads along the route we took) and also visited Wall’s drugs, which has a gazzilon road signs along the road.
I got caught for speeding Mt Rushmore. I think we came in the back way as the roads were really twisting around. I whipped around the 2nd to last turn to the entrance at a clocked speed of 40 MPH in a 25 MPH zone. I knew i was busted immediately and the Ranger police followed me to the entrance of Mt Rushmore then flipped on the lights. I pulled over and became one of those people you look at on the side of the road as you drive by. I figured honesty was the best policy. After a quick check of the registration (their computer records said it was expired … great work by the Indiana BMV … but all my paper records were in order and up to date) he thankfully let me off with a verbal warning.
We holed up in Oacoma, SD for the night. A pretty good run from Rapid City were we had planned to stop, taking off 3 hours of travel time from the next couple of days. For today we are shooting for Madison, WI which is a good 575 miles. It’ll be a long, flat day.
We have a ton of pictures left to put up (we have taken over 4000 at this point) and will get those up after we get home. Sounds like a good relaxation task on Sunday.
