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7 days, 8 states and 3191 miles.


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So last Saturday wife and I headed for the Black Hills. Day one was CLV to Cedar Falls Iowa, 650 miles. Stayed at a nice casino in Cedar Falls, wife likes casinos so I try to plan them along the way if possible.  Picked up a passenger at a McDonalds along the way.

 

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Day two we did another 650, stopped in Murdo South Dakota for the car museum there. It was closed last time I went through, and glad we stopped. It was epic. 300 cars of all types and boatloads of motorcycles, bikes, toys and all kinds of memorabilia. Well worth the stop and 11 bucks.

 

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As we got near Rapid City the horizon was black. One of the worst looking storms I have ever seen. Lots of rotation in the clouds and non-stop massive lightning strikes. I decided I was bailing at the next exit and waiting it out. That was about 5 miles away. So I am hammer down and my amazing weather luck kicked in....it was like Moses parted the clouds. There was one clear sunny part right in front of us, while on both sides the chaos was still going on.  We drove right through it with the mess on either side. News said later there was damaging hail, floods and crap on both sides of the highway. View from the hotel afterwards:

 

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So day 3 the fun starts. Mt. Rushmore.

 

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16A was newly paved and it was epic. No traffic just hammer down and carve the corners.

 

 

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After that Custer Park and Wildlife Loop Road.  Buffalo all over the damn place.

 

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Spent the next two nights in Deadwood. Got a great hotel there with indoor parking. Fun town to hang and party in.

 

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Next day was SpearFish Canyon Road. Another epic road, again no traffic except for two lesbians hauling a Buel. They got out of the way very quickly for us.

 

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Then Devils Tower.

 

 

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Then a great road back to South Dakota, think it was 24. Cool towns along the way. One for sale...the whole town for 1.5 million.

 

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Sturgis was freaking packed, a mad house.

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Next day we started working our way back. Hit Wall Drug of course. Then the Badlands, that is certainly one of the highlights of the trip. I love that road and the whole 'on the moon' atmosphere.

 

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Then just as we left the Badlands before getting back on 90 I saw a place that lets you feed prairie dogs.

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At Sioux City we headed south and spent the night at the new HardRock Casino in Sioux Falls Iowa.  They were out of king beds, so they gave us a suite.

 

 

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Hit Omaha Nebraska the next day for grins. Very cool town, super clean. Then headed to Joliet Illinois for the night, but stopped at Antique Archaeology on the way. Those dudes from American Pickers

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Next day we headed home, saw the bike swap meet in Wauseon and stopped for lunch and a quick walk around. Pretty much sucked like AMA's Vintage Days. Some nice bikes though.
 

 

All in all, an outstanding trip. It was nice just having one bike. We saw something we just stopped and did it. Not having to worry about others opinions and so on.

 

Rest of the pics are here:

http://jimkennedy.smugmug.com/Black-Hills-2015/i-P5cBgKr/A

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Was the General Lee actively projecting hate?  I can't seem to feel any from the photo.

 

I've already sent Tonik a PM, portraying my disgust.  I also demanded he photoshop the picture, as not to offend future viewers.

 

Other than that, great trip.  Thanks for sharing.  What did you do in Omaha?  I lived there for 7 years.

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Was the General Lee actively projecting hate?  I can't seem to feel any from the photo.

 

 

No, but it was projecting lighting bolts. It struck every black person that walked by. Was quite the pile of bodies there. I think it had a high capacity lightning bolt magazine.

 

 

 

I've already sent Tonik a PM, portraying my disgust.  I also demanded he photoshop the picture, as not to offend future viewers.

 

Other than that, great trip.  Thanks for sharing.  What did you do in Omaha?  I lived there for 7 years.

 

It is my constitutional right to disgust other people.  Didn't do a thing in Omaha, just set the GPS for downtown...cruised around for awhile to check it out and then hit the road.

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Looked like a fun adventure together. I expected to see you hatefully biting the heads off of those prairie dogs instead of feeding them, but it seems your wife failed to photograph the genocidal rage

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Looked like a fun adventure together. I expected to see you hatefully biting the heads off of those prairie dogs instead of feeding them, but it seems your wife failed to photograph the genocidal rage

 

There was a big sign on the way into the Badlands that said prairie dogs have plague. That was the only thing holding me back.

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