Wednesday 08.08. We headed into South Dakota. We stopped at the amazing Western Museum "1880 Town." An unused movie set with 30 buildings was moved to the current site. Many original old buildings like the hotel and the bank were bought, disassembled and rebuilt on the site too. The place is full of memorabilia and antiques. There are loads of props and photos from the set of the movie Dances with Wolves. And a whole 50s railway dining car has been turned into a restaurant.
We toured the Badlands National Park and ended up in Rapid City for the night.
Thursday 09.08. The reason we were in South Dakota at all was to attend the annual Sturgis Motorbike Rally. Our first, but the rally has been going for 78 years. Over 10 days 500 000 people attend. There are over 250 000 bikes, mostly Harleys. Thousands of bikes line the streets daily. All roads and highways for 100s of miles around are just teeming with bikes. There's a party going on.
Sturgis is a pretty small town, so all around there are huge campgrounds set up to house everyone in tents and RVs.
Buffalo Chip Campground is the biggest with a central amphitheatre for concerts and even a man-made beach. We got tickets to the Kid Rock concert. We had a great time. We slept in the back of our car. We survived.
Friday 10.08. The next day we visited Mount Rushmore, Custer State Park and the Black Hills. We headed back to Sturgis later and spent the night in a motel in Spearfish.
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