Going/Went to South Dakota.. LOTS OF PHOTOS!!!
 

Well.. I am going to go to South Dakota next week in celebration of my birthday, as well as my 8th wedding anniversary.

Anyone have any recommendations on sites, restaurants etc???

Here is what we have planned thus far:

mount rushmore
bear country
wall drug
murdo car museum
jewel caves
wind caves
deadwood
broken boot gold mine
miners den steakhouse
1880 train ride
Reptile Gardens

quite the variety already.. but let me know if you can think of things to add!! We are staying just south of Rapid City..

Thanks :D

um.. no one???

Well, I have to recommend Reptile Gardens! :)

Cheers!
Terry Phillip

Well, I have to recommend Reptile Gardens! :)

Cheers!
Terry Phillip
Curator of Reptiles
Black Hills Reptile Gardens

The bad lands are awesome to see and photograph! Have been through there a few times. :)

Sturgis isn't for two more months, you're going too early.....

you could goto wolsey, sd and check out my work of art that's being installed at nustar energy as we speak. :) there's also another work of art of mine that's in yankton.

hmm, pretty much already have everything listed that I could think of, hope you have fun, I plan on heading that way myself for family vacation here in a few weeks

The Badlands has to be consided a must see on any trip through SoDak.

If you are into camping, I would also HIGHLY recommend Custer State park.
If you don't camp, I would still recommend at least a couple days there.

Sincerely,
Paul E. Turley

HA HA HA.. sooo.. I JUST noticed that people finally commented on this thread.. (we didn't have internet whilst there)

Here are some photos I got while in South Dakota.. I took about a thousand photos or so.. but only uploaded a few.. LOL

Here are few photos from Reptile Gardens:

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A few from Bear Country (which was sooooo much fun, and got an overload of cuteness!!!)

(The Wolf is my animal spirit guide.. I was ecstatic when I saw them running around. I wish I could have seen more.. but the cars were moving too fast :( )

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