From: wolverine01@charter.net   
      
   On 6/28/2025 9:12 PM, Ted Heise wrote:   
      
      
   > Day 13 was a drive from Wyoming to western Nebraska.  By now I’d   
   > realized that traffic on much of I-90 in Wyoming was reasonably   
   > light and I didn’t feel that pulling the trailer at 60 mph was   
   > inconveniencing other drivers all that much.  So we took that   
   > route around the Black Hills and through Sturgis and Rapid City.   
   > Neither of these towns were very attractive to me, though the   
   > landscapes were.   
      
   My brother-in-law lives in Rapid City, and the wife's parents lived   
   between Custer and Deadwood for about 25 years before moving back this   
   way.  I have to agree with your assessment of Rapid and Sturgis.  Not   
   must see places.  Rapid is really not very big at all, and Sturgis only   
   has the biker rally.  It gets damn hot out there in the summer, too.   
      
   >  From Rapid City we took 44 down through the Badlands, though it   
   > seemed more appropriate that they should have been called the   
   > Badroads.  Ugh.  Rough, narrow, and rough.  Did I mention they   
   > were rough?  There was a nice stretch through pine ridges and it   
   > got a little better once we entered Nebraska.   
      
   Try going there when the rally is going on.  You just can't get anywhere   
   with all the 2 lane roads and bikers clogging up everything.  BIL likes   
   to come visit us when it is going on the roads and getting around are so   
   bad.   
      
   > The state park at Merritt Reservoir was a bit rustic.  The place   
   > clearly catered mostly to fishermen, and it also seemed somewhat   
   > trashy.  It was fine for a night, though.  And we had a nice   
   > sunset...   
   >   
   > https://panix.com/~theise/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/20250603_213017.jpg   
      
   I see they claim to have "some of the darkest skies in the world".  Did   
   you have a clear night and see the Milky Way?   
      
      
      
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