Rapid City, SD - It's Hot

We arrived at Hart Ranch just south of Rapid City, SD yesterday afternoon after a long boring drive from Buffalo, WY. Talk about a lot of nothing! Miles and miles of hills, valleys, desert looking landscape with some farming thrown in. It sure would be a long drive to the closest Wal-Mart- LOL!

Hart Ranch is a RPI Preferred park and is really nice. Paved roads, paved sites, full hookups, cable TV and wi-fi in the park. I haven't taken a picture of our site yet, but I will. We are situated between two rental cabins. The actually are not cabins but small park model RV that look like log cabins. The sites here are large with plenty of room between sites and lots of space in the back. Our site backs up to the fields. I've been watching for deer but haven't seen any yet. We did see some on our drive here so I'm keeping watch.

Last night there was the strangest cloud in the evening sky. It really looked like a mushroom cloud on the western side. It was beautiful with the sun setting. I'm posting a picture of it if you want to check it out.

Today we decided to drive to Wall, SD and visit Wall Drug Store - a real tourist trap, but interesting. Of course, it isn't the small drug store that it was back in 1931 but has grown into a building that covers a whole block. Shops, shops and more shops inside full of the "made in china" stuff. Everyone has told us not to miss Wall Drug Store and we didn't. I've posted some pictures from there as well.

One more thing - IT'S HOT HERE!! The temperature today was 104 degrees. I haven't been in temperatures like that in, well, I can't remember when. Sure hope it starts cooling off soon. That was the reason we decided to do the drive to Wall, SD today - inside a air conditioned vehicle to a air conditioned building. There are several out door things we want to do, but sure don't look forward to doing them in the heat. We have nine more days here before we move on, so my fingers are crossed for cooler weather.

Check back as we will be going to Mt. Rushmore, Deadwood and more and I'll be posting about them.

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