Black Hills Nat`l Park Sturgis- Deadwood-Rushmore Mt. - Crazt Horse Mt. - Custer- Devil`s Mt- Rapid City (480 mls)


It`s Sunday 8 am ! Everyhing is closed and is impossible to have a cappuccino or something ....

So , we did go to a gas station and we have bought a couple of chocomilk and some cookies . This it`s been our breakast in front of the gas pumps .
On the Main st , some people it was working to finish to prepare the stands for the Sturgis rally and except these workers the streets were pratically empty . After our breakfast we rode south towards the Black Hills Park and just after few miles we arrived in a beutiful village called Deadwod . The locals preserve the buildings so well that we felt to be on the "Wild West" . Almost all the buildings are from the 19th Century , the atmosphere was very cool ! As perfect tourist , we took some pics

on the roads a lot of antiques ( these were the "Cossacks "). Even the girl on the back was perplexed

Mt Rushmore


and Crazy Horse Mt .


Indian flags
When finished , it will probably be the biggest sculpture worldwide speaking . I have just finished to read his biography and I weas a bit moved .
Olly wants to know everything about the indian wars !! .
Riders
At 1 pm we had lunch at Custer , a small villlage on the middle of the Black Hills, also this one with the building from the "frontier era" , ( sheriff`s prison included )



. Olly tryed to enter to the local Saloon but it`s been bounced back because of his age !!!

The last site we visited it`s been the Devil`s Tower . This is an impressive mountain in the middle of the High Plains .


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