Running behind on the blogging...

Wow, so much to tell, so little time to type. We are in Rapid City, SD. We actually drove here on Sunday - but we were not planning to. We made good time across Kansas and Nebraska. When I can connect to the Internet, I’ll download some pics. When we pulled into Valentine, NE, we realized it was still early. So, we figured we’d drive on for a while longer. It was only about 90 miles to I-90 - surely there’d be some place to stay along the way. When we reached the Interstate, we decided to drive a little farther to reach the entrance to the Badlands - another 60 miles. Once we arrived, the Badlands took our breath away. We had to spend some time taking pics in the evening light. In the park, every cabin and hotel was filled. Drive to Wall, we were told. So, was did. (Keep in mind, we had been up since 5am Central Time - we had driven out of Woodward at 6am.) 20 miles to Wall. We stopped and ate dinner at about 9pm - Mountain time. Plenty of hotels, right? Wrong. No vacancy in the entire town. Probably need to drive to Rapid City, we were told - another 70 miles. We left Wall at 10pm Mountain time and drove to Rapid City. Apparently, there are way too few hotel rooms in Rapid City. We thought we’d be sleeping in our little two-seater but, we finally found what was probably the last hotel room in Rapid City - Super 8 for $105 a night at 11:30 Mountain time. Let’s see, that is 17 ½ hours. A little more driving than we had planned for Sunday…

Other than the crowds everywhere, it’s been glorious so far.