Today was another travel day so we pulled stakes and headed north through the Sand Hills of northwestern Nebraska. As usual, what I expected was nothing like what is there. The Sand Hills rise to elevations above 4000 feet and near the border the terrain turns into tall bluffs surrounding massive pastures. Vistas are huge. For most of the time we were on the road in the Hills, we were not bothered by any other persons, cars, trucks, trains or rural electrification. We could see for miles and the scenery was quite stunning.
Eventually, we crossed into South Dakota and the scenery got even better. We soon could see the Black Hills to the west of our course and we continued skirting them until we got to Rapid City. We visited Rapid City on our 2015 trip around the country and had hoped to return. Today we got our wish.
We turned off US-18/US-385/SD-79 south of town and headed southwest on US-16 for a few miles until turning into the Happy Holidays RV Park. It is a large park with full hookups, nice roads, big spaces, a pool, a store and wifi so we were pretty happy. We have shade, the temperatures are much lower than the last 3 months and we are back in the west where humidity doesn’t make fat guys like me sweat as if a whore in church.
There’s some photos of the Sand Hills you can see if you click the asterisk *