I like driving as long as its not in the city: the roads in and around Custer State Park perfectly satisfy my amateur driving needs. The seventeen mile Iron Mountain Road runs from Keystone to Custer SP and is full of hairpin bends, horseshoe turns and tunnels carved through rock, which conveniently, and beautifully, frame […]
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The Sacred Devil’s Tower
Seven young girls are playing outside when suddenly, spotting his dinner, a vicious bear starts sprinting towards them. Everyone knows it’s silly to try and outrun a bear! The girls find a rock on which they huddle, praying to the rock’s spirit, asking for protection. The rock does offer it. It grows taller and taller, […]
The purr of Harleys in Deadwood and Sturgis
The famous Western town of Deadwood is nestled in the Black Hills of South Dakota. It’s famous to me because I’m a fan of Deadwood, the TV series. I imagine wooden houses, wooden boardwalks, mud and business owners who swear an awful will populate the town. Wood is no longer the building product of choice, […]
The Medicine Wheel
From Bighorn Canyon it’s only a short drive to the Bighorn Mountains. Short, but very steep. The road clings to the side of the mountains as it ascends, hugs the mountain tightly as it sharply curves this way and that. The road does an excellent job of keeping me alert. Of course, I’m also gasping […]
The Great ‘Bighorn Canyon’
On my way east I take route 14 (Alt) and stop in the little town to stock up on some fresh fruit and beer – just the necessities – and as I drive out of the town I notice a sign for a Visitor Centre for the Bighorn Canyon Recreation Area. I stop in. The […]
The Wild West lives on in Cody, Wyoming
I leave Yellowstone through its East Entrance and the highway which changes names 4 times along the route, takes me along the North Fold Shoshone River, by the Buffalo Bill Reservoir and straight into Cody, Wyoming. Apparently Buffalo Bill, who started the town of Wyoming, made it so on purpose – he built the town […]
Yellowstone, Yellowstone
“He always had felt at home outdoors. It was as if the land and sky and wind were friendly, and no need for a pack of people about to make him easy. The wind had a voice to it, and the land lay ready for him, and the sky gave room to his eye and […]
Oregon’s Playful West Coast
Mission complete, a part of it anyway – I make it to the coast. It’s wonderful to walk towards the beach in my bare feet, cool sand slipping between and around my toes, the big sky above, and the coast stretching as far the fog and haze. I take my shoes off and run towards […]