South Dakota Travel Blogs

Friday, July 28-  Spent the morning driving West on Interstate 90 into South Dakota. One of our side trips was to an oddity called the Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota. A building that is decorated anew each year, with colored corn cobs to make a design on (and in!) the building.  Di…

Today we got up with the intentions of spending our last day at the cabin cleaning and packing. Well that lasted about two hours lol. We got up cleaned and packed most of what we could then we headed for Hill City to check it out. We hadn’t been there yet and decided we visit it before we left. T…

Today was another of those days that I had planned for what seemed forever. We had been talking about going out west for a year and I had spent the better part of that year on every website I could find, looking through every travel book I could find and then getting back on the websites. Planning …

If you are in the Sioux Falls, SD area and happen to be craving good Japanese food then Sushi Masa is where you should go.. The menu is mostly catered to our omnivore neighbors, but they do have some very yummy veggie friendly options.. Sadly the Miso soup is not vegan, but they do have a simple sa…

Tonight we had a light dinner at one of the local Hotel restaurants.  We had seen a sign about a buffet at the Hotel just up the street from our lodgings and decided to check it out.  As soon as I walked in the door I knew we were going to eat there, because just to my right was the ice c…

8:20 PM: Yes, back in Watertown, SD! We had a wonderful trip - in spite of the detours. But I already miss my homies.

If you ride across the U.S., going from the East is the best. Young man, ge west!You can have the same scope as the frontiers. You can have the same hope as the frontiers.  

In addition to cute little shops and yummy dining, the quaint downtown district of Sioux Falls also serves as an outdoor art museum. There is a piece of outdoor sculpture for everyone from images of mythology, figurative, fantasy and wildlife. Its hard to pick a favorite and everytime I walk throug…

Got up in the morning exhausted.  Dreamed my bike had been dismantled, leaving only a frame with wheels left and a passerby thinking I was an idiot when I screamed that there was nothing left.  Was glad to get out of Rockford, IL.  My trip was uneventful until I began to cross the Mi…

And so we came into South Dakota, tired of driving, wanting to stop sooooooon.  But our target destination was Badlands National Park, and we still had a ways to go.  After a grueling 275 more miles, we finally were at the park entrance.  But this was unlike any national park I had e…

The whole reason why we picked Vermillion to stop was to visit the National Music Museum, on the University of South Dakota campus. So after the breakfast at our Buffalo Run Resort at Valiant Winery where we stayed overnight, we headed to the museum, only a few minutes away.It was free to the publi…

There was much to see today and we couldn't wait to get started.  Our room at the Spearfish Holiday Inn was comfortable and warm, but we rolled out of the bed at 6 a.m. because daylight was burning.   It was a perfect day for riding, cool temperatures and clear blue skies. …

During our eight days we visited Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, and South Dakota. We saw Yellowstone National Park, Devil's Tower, Mount Rushmore National Memorial, Custer State Park, The Badlands. We saw Elk, Wolves, Moose, Coyotes, Bigh Horn Sheep, Prong Horn Sheep, Golden Eagles, Bald Eagles, Mule Deer, Bison, Wild Turkey, Geese, Chipmunks and Trumpeter Swans. A vacation never forget and I'll have to return in the summer when everything is green.

Sturgis is noted for their legendary bike week which happens during the first full weekend on August.  That is when this sleepy little town grows from 6,442 people to a whopping 515,000 for a two week period.  So, with that being said here is a brief history: The Sturgis Motorcycle Rall…

  On July 18, I left Dickinson and drove south to Rapid City, SD.,  and stayed at the Elks Lodge there. Parking was not fancy but was in the parking lot of the 18 hole golf course they own. The lodge had a full dining room and a work out room complete with a nice shower setup which was g…