South Dakota--Day 2--On the road again, finally!

Well, we are finally out of the house and back on the road, where we belong. We left home yesterday and started our trek north toward the Badlands of South Dakota. (To read about our "fantastic" start off read the previous post about Friday the Thirteenth.)


We drove from the Oklahoma City area north up I-35/I-135 to Salina, KS, and then west to Russel, KS, a little over 300 miles. Today we moved on west and north and stopped in Bridgeport, NE. We are about 200 miles from our destination of Rapid City, SD. The RV park here does not have cable but we can pick up three stations with the antennae, ABC, CBS and PBS. The main thing is they have WiFi so we're back on line tonight.


After getting into the RV Park here and getting set up we decided to unhook the car and do some sighseeing. This area of Nebraska is very pretty and has some very unusual rock formation. Out west of town is a place called Chimney Rock. This is a very unusual formation. Adjacent to the viewing was the Chimney Rock Cemetary where many of the pioneers that died on their trek west were buired.

Another formation was call Courthouse and Jail Rocks. The early pioneers coming through this area on their way west decided these rocks looked like a Courthouse and a Jail. The formations rise over 400 feet above the North Platte Valley.


We'll leave out of here first thing in the morning heading for Hart Ranch RV Resort in Rapid City for a visit with our good friends, Lew and Dottie Anderson.