Jeep safari this morning inside Custer State Park to give Chris a break from driving as it's sometimes difficult to look at what is going on and concentrate on the road. We meet our guide at State Game Lodge, one of four such lodges in the park, this one was used as the summer White House by President Coolidge. We head out into the park where we immediately spot a large number of buffalo roaming freely around the Visitor Centre lawns, not something you see every ...

Up to Mount Rushmore first thing this morning and a glimpse of American capitalism at work here. Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor responsible for the work requested that the monument be free to everyone, this is true but it's $11 to park - go figure! It's an impressive sight, no doubt, and an icon of American democracy but the area is subject to controversy as the land was seized from the Lakota Indians in 1876. We drive down to Hill City for lunch, Harley riding re...

More of the same from Cheyenne this morning, grass, grass and hmm…more grass. We cover a few hundred miles like this with not much relief from the relentless desert of rolling grassland. Finally we see the Black Hills 'Paha Sapa' in Lakota, the local Indian people. Heading into Custer and seeing directions to towns like Deadwood you know you are in Buffalo Bill and Calamity Jane country! We drive through town and make our way to our home for the next few days -...