The Black Hills and Needles Highway

Leaving the Badlands we once again set out on the road headed towards the Black Hills, Custer State Park and Needles Highway, the Crazy Horse monument and Mount Rushmore. Making it to Custer State Park first we realized about halfway through the drive on Needles highway which was really cool, that we were almost out of gas. Trying not to step on the gas pedal in order to preserve our reserves we finally made it to the bottom of the mountain. From there we had to find a gas station. You see out here there is no grantee of gas it was could be 1 mile it could be 50 who knows. But we did find one about 5 miles down the road thanks goodness to because we were running on fumes. We ate dinner in this great town called Hill City. Shel and I finally got to try some Buffalo meat. We both had a buffalo steak wrapped in bacon with veggies and a potato for on $8.00 each. Awesome! We could totally do our own $40.00 a day! Look out Rachel Ray. After dinner we went on out quest for a campsite. It was little difficult seeing as though we had no idea where we were going, and got a little detoured in the Black Hills of South Dakota, but hey it all ended up working out in the end. We stayed at a campsite in the Nation Forest called Horse Thief (awesome name). And go figure we ended up staying at the same campsite that George Bush stayed at while he was in office. They called it their presidential site. Haha we thought that was funny. Waking up early, we ate a fabulous all you could eat breakfast in Hill City at this local dive and we on our way to Wyoming.