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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 day, must be hell for the guys that cut the grass! Moving away out over the park we see pronghorn antelope, whitetail deer, an elk (just the one!), prairie dogs (an entire town!), donkeys and more buffalo. We soon complete our loop of the park and return to the van, we stop for lunch at one of the many picnic areas before deciding to walk around Legion Lake spotting a few more whitetail deer between the trees as we go. We take the loop road over to Bluebell Lodge where we have reservations for a chuck wagon cookout. Boarding our haywagon we head back into the park and over to a canyon where they have dinner waiting for us. We sing cowboy songs on the way with our host Keith, a musician and local man who tells us some stories of the gold rush and the early settlers, some of whom were his grandparents. It's cowboy food for everyone this evening and live music in the canyon. We met a family from Chicago, who had 2 children. A son the same age as Bradley, and a younger girl. It was funny because on the way there , the boys sat next to each other and didnt utter a word, then on the way back, after we got chatting over dinner, you couldnt shut them up. We drove back through the windey roads in the dark, and then Chris was glad to be able to crack open a beer. I am still making my way through the $5 dollar bottles of calufornian champaign...its a hard life.....
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