Spearfish Canyon, South Dakota

July 2 - Today we went for a very nice ride. We drove up to Spearfish Canyon and what a sight. It was just lovely. The canyon walls were absolutely magnificent and the waterfalls breathtaking. We learned that the final few scenes in the movie Dances with Wolves was made here. We are going to have to watch that movie again!! We went through a fairly good thunder storm in the canyon, it seemed to make the thunder much louder.

After the canyon we drove up to Sturgis. This evidently is a meca for motorcyclists! Every year thousands of them descend on the town. They say in the park for several days that is all you will hear - not looking forward to that. However, Ft. Mead is in Sturges and we found it to be one of the best historical museums we have ever been to. It is small, but filled with items from the original fort and history of the surrounding area.

We took back roads to get home, came around a curve and we both said at the sametime, “What is all that white stuff!!” You guessed, it was SNOW. It appeared they must have had at least a couple of inches for the amount we were seeing, there was even slush of the road in one place. Naturally it was very wet and melted quickly. Hard to believe snow on July 2nd!!!