Along the way we saw a sign for Jewel Cave National Monument. We are always ready for a good cave tour so we entered the park.
It seems that September is considered the off-season and the cave tours were only available every 3 hours. Yes, we just missed the tour and there wasn't enough to see at the park to waste 3 hours so we drove on toward Custer.We found our Corps of Engineers park near Hot Springs, South Dakota. The park was on Cold Brook Lake which is one of the small reservoirs in the area. We were the 4th camping unit in the park.
We drove into Hot Springs Saturday evening and looked around. It was a nice town, the even had a grocery store named after Jennifer's dog--The Dakotamart!
Sunday we drove to Rapid City to check out the air force base and sightsee. On our return trip, we drove through Custer State Park. We thought we were supposed to see lots of different animals, but all we saw were buffalo and prong horn antelope! We had seen more than we wanted of both of those. We did eat a late lunch at the Game Lodge in Custer State Park.
When we arrived at the campground, the sheriff (who drove through often) to chat. He wanted to know how we were enjoying the area and where we were going to go Monday when the park closed! We didn't know it closed on September 15th so we had to make some quick plans.
Monday, we were on the road again! Have you figured out where we are?
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If you don't know where you are, call home! that is what ET did! I would bet you are on the road to el Paso, Texas or with Bob and Dot!
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