June 22-26, 2012 – Black Hills, SD
We left Badlands Friday morning and headed towards Rapid City. Just East of Rapid City we stopped at Americas Mailbox, our mail forwarding company, and picked up our mail. It was nice to finally see our “home base”. We are staying South of Rapid City at Rushmore Shadows RV Resort. This is a very nice resort and the long pull-through site worked great so we didn’t have to unhitch our “dead” Jeep. Next door to the RV resort was Old MacDonald’s Farm, a petting farm and family fun park. We enjoyed seeing the goats on the suspended bridge every day. We have been to the Black Hills many times and have seen most of the sights so we didn’t do a lot of sightseeing. Our main reason for coming to this area is to get registered to vote. After getting registered we relaxed some and took a couple of scenic drives. Of course, we had to stop by Mt. Rushmore National Memorial again - we are always impressed when we visit. We al