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September
2018 September 01
  Move from The Badlands KOA to Custer South Dakota some of the land around the badlands


and of course the camp site in Custer right on the creek.




and the route to get there



You will notice that the track is not all the way thats because there were no digipeaters [ digital repeaters] or internet gateways, until near Scenic. 


September 02
    Custer had a nice Studebaker show on the  street in frount of the visiter center.



After that I took a drive up the Needles highway in Custer State Park   which is a very twisty narrow road with three tunnels only a single lane wide   8 foot wide and 9 foot high each not some thing I would want to try to get my travel trailer thru if I had a choice.   If you are going to spend any time in the state parks of South Dakota I suggest you get the yearly pass as you get waved thru the entrance for each park at no additional cost. 



Then on to the Crazy Horse memorial for a visit.

September 03
    Today I took the round about  in Custer State Park that is the other side of the neddles highway loop and visited with some of the indigenous animal population of the park.



These little critters are every where.

As you can see from this picture they also have a few Bison but you have to get off the paved roads to see them as the herds keep to them selves as much as possible.  Rush hour on the park road Custer State park South Dakota....



and spent the afternoon in Keystone South Dakota a really nice little town.


 

September 04
  A visit to  the wind cave national park near Custer

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Wind cave is a dry cave so no driping water to form stallagmites or other neat formations.  It does have some rare formations that not may other caves have



and then on to Hot Springs  SD which has some really nice older buildings.





September 05
Today Jewel cave another cave close to Custer SD.  But first I arrived at the cave and found a family that I had taken the wind cave tour with yesterday who had to small girls the one below seems to have my number and is not sure if she can trust me or not.



Jewel Cave is a wet cave and has some of the formations that you might expect there.



and after all was said and done the very nice family that joined me in both caves




September 06
Travel from Custer SD to Cheyenne Wyoming
Not much to take a picture of but the wind was pretty high and made driving difficult.





September 07 day of rest



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