We love this little espresso stand in custer, sd! It’s drive through and walk up only, no going inside. Check out the lovely smoothies they made for the boys!

We visited the wild west town of deadwood today. It’s a really odd combination of a small version of vegas and an old mining town. As fans of the hbo show ‘deadwood’, john and I were fascinatedby a few historical sites. In particular, seth bullock, first mayor of deadwood, is…

We later heard these animals can run 30mph+ and leap 10 foot fences! This herd was reintroduced to the park after near extinction in north america!

Great talk by a ranger at mount rushmore and of course time for some classic photo ops. Here are the three presidential kennymen!

Grasshoppers rival the bison and prairie dog as animal of most interest to us out here. This one really likes miles’s attention!

Liam and Miles at a minutemen missile launch site in south Dakota.

A herd of bison by the roaring badlands

the native lakota people called this place paradise, seemingly someone did a really poor job translating that into ‘badlands’.

After a long drive through hours of rolling plains we finally arrived in Badlands National Park.  This is the view from behind our campsite