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Saturday, September 14, 2019 - Casper, Wyoming to Custer City, South Dakota

     We left Casper from Motel 6 about 10:15 and went south on 25 to Douglas, Wyoming, north on 59 to Wright and east on 450 to Custer City. We found a very nice older motel decked out 50s style: the Rocket Motel. On our drive we saw miles of rolling hills: some with pronghorns and some with cattle. Lots of natural resource development: oil processing, natural gas, and nuclear energy plants, The day was sunny and warm,

Sunday September 15, 2019 - Custer City, South Dakota to Belle Fourche, South Dakota

     Today we left Custer City, a touristy old-western town, and headed to Mount Rushmore. The Black Hills are a sight to see. The rock formations carved out by wind, rain, and ice are impressive indeed! Mt. Rushmore had many vehicles going and coming from parking areas. After snapping a couple of pictures of the presidents we carried on and eventually getting ourselves lost on a very narrow and windy 2 lane road. The speed was 25 mph with lots of hairpin turns at 15 mph. We went through 3 tunnels cut out of the stone that sparkled with mica. I will say that it was an interesting drive. We finally got ourselves re-oriented so we could head north on 385 passing through Deadwood, South Dakota and on to 85 north to Belle Fourche. We retired into the Ace Motel run by a very chatty lady who gave directions for everything. Now some may wonder how or why we ended up in Belle Fourche. Well, we promised a friend that we would try and collect some quilting patterns for her from certain cities,