Our turkey showed up after Thanksgiving, Dec 5th snow storm.	Bridge over the creek, Dec 5 snow storm.	Drive, Dec 5 snow storm.
Dec 5 storm	Creek with 3 ducks, Dec 5 storm	One mallard swimming in the snow.
Dec 19th snow storm, almost 13 inches in 10 hours.	Happy Holidays	Hitch Hiker wants to go South!!!!
Gary having fun in the snow, Dec 19 snow storm.	Gary says "Hi" we miss you!	Wood pile
	Gary is standing on the Center of the Nation - Belle Fourche, SD	I liked this statue that was at the Visitor Center in Belle Fourche
Presidents Park Sculpture Park	Roughloch Falls, a short hike just off the Spearfish Canyon Scenic Byway.	Just downstream from Roughloch Falls
Bridal Veil Falls along the Spearfish Canyon Scenic Byway Highway.	Antelope in Custer State Park	Buffalo jam in Custer State Park
Cone flower	Frostwork and cave popcorn in Wind Cave	Boxwork in Wind Cave
Black eyed Susan	Deadwood - street shootout
Wild donkeys in Custer State Park, Gary attempting to pet one.	"What do you mean, don't feed the animals"  No food no petting!	He finally got a little one to let him pet him.  His fur was very soft.
Now it's time for a little refreshment.	Mule deer	Antelope
Mammoth site	Sign about Iron Mountain Road and Needles Hwy.	Gary standing in tunnel on Iron Mountain Road.
One of three  tunnels on Iron Mountain Road, all have Mt. Rushmore framed in the tunnel.	Pigtail bridges	Sign before tunnel on the Needles Hwy.
A bus going through the tunnel on Needles Hwy.	Our truck going through another tunnel on the Needles Hwy.	We climbed to the top of this tunnel to take a picture of a car going through.  It was not easy, see pictures.
A RV going through the tunnel.  Picture taken from top of tunnel.	Gary tried on a previous day - this is him coming down, tight squeeze!	Here I am climbing down a 15 foot narrow slit in the rock to get to the top of the tunnel.  Gary found the way this day.
Scenery along the Needles Hwy.	Sylvan Lake on Needles Hwy.	South Dakota sunset from our campsite.
These black crystals were very unusual in Jewel Cave.	Jewel Cave	Formations in Jewel Cave
Thistle	Crazy Horse Memorial	Wild Horses at the Wild Horse Sanctuary - don't know what makes these wild?
Along the George S. Mickelson trail there were signs of interesting things to note.	Here is the barn the sign was referring to.	Gary going through the first tunnel we biked through.
Waterfalls along the trail	The trail was crushed limestone but the scenery was great.	Suzanne going through the second tunnel.
Gary going over a tall bridge after the tunnel.	View from bridge.	Thistle
Thunderhead Falls Mine, note the stalagmites forming after 100 years.	Thunderhead Falls at end of mine; can you image what you felt after blasting?	Thunderhead Falls outside of mine.
Flower in Badlands	Badlands	Badlands
Badlands	Badlands	9" door to protect the 2 men in the missile control center.
One of two control panels that must act together in order to launch - they also needed another site to also employ the launch code.	Minuteman missile - no longer has a nuclear warhead.	White prairie dogs.
Start of Nebraska pictures	Isn't this a beautiful thistle	Scott's Bluff where the pioneers had to go through this pass.  It was much narrower 100 years ago.
Chimney Rock, the end of the prairie travel and the beginning of the mountains.	One of the many pioneers who died at Chimney Rock	Bailey Yard, Northern Pacific's largest train car sorting yard in the nation.
Buffalo Bill Cody's home, he and his wife raised 4 children here.	Scout's Rest Ranch was the name of Cody's home and ranch.
Platte River Road Archway over I 80	One of the scenes inside the Archway	Carhenge - vintage 50's and 60's autos
Another car sculpture at Carhenge	We are in Kansas now.	Rock City in the middle of nowhere Kansas!
They called this donut rock!	Eisenhower statue at the Eisenhower Center	Replica of the house Laura Wilder used in the writing of "Little House on the Prairie".  Located on plot that Charles Engles owned when Laura was 3 years old.
Judy and Greg in front of bank that the Dalton Gang attempted to rob in Coffeyville, KS	The town celebrates its notoriety by having crime scene drawings on streets where Dalton gang were killed.	Fields of Sunflowers in bloom in Kansas
Our next stop was Branson, MO	Tom Mullins as Red Skelton in the Guzzlers Gin skit.	John Wayne impersonator