{"id":3330,"date":"2015-05-20T21:37:44","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T03:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=3330"},"modified":"2016-09-07T21:12:36","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T18:12:36","slug":"cheyenne-wy-to-keystone-sd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/cheyenne-wy-to-keystone-sd\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheyenne, WY, to Keystone, SD"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was quite a good night in Cheyenne. The trains ran all night, but it was a soothing background noise that didn’t bother me. I would have slept late had I not been woken by a gaggle of kids around 7:00. I’ve been waking up between 5:00 and 6:00 for months, so that was a good stretch!<\/p>\n

I took full advantage of the modest breakfast offered as well as the surprisingly good in-room coffee before leaving at 9:30. I had nothing planned for the day but to get to Keystone by mid to late afternoon.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t far past Cheyenne when the landscape turned to the olive green rolling hills I consider to be ‘home.’<\/p>\n

\"Wow,<\/a>

Wow, looks like home!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"If<\/a>

If I didn’t have this labeled as Wyoming, I would think it’s southern SK.<\/p><\/div>\n

The first part of the day was along I-25. If I had kept going north, I would have hit home. But instead, I turned east on route 18 to head to the Black Hills.<\/p>\n

\"Snow<\/a>

Snow on rooftops.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"It's<\/a>

It’s a little hard to see in the picture, but you can see on the GPS screen the state lines separating WY, NE, and SD.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"SD<\/a>

SD also looks like SK. \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n

It got colder the closer I got to Mount Rushmore, with snow on the ground, but the sky was clearer.<\/p>\n

\"Blue<\/a>

Blue sky!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"First<\/a>

First mention of the Black Hills!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"First<\/a>

First mention of Mt. Rushmore!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Snow<\/a>

Snow on the ground as I get closer to Keystone.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Tons<\/a>

Tons of blue sky!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Approaching<\/a>

Approaching Mt. Rushmore.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Entering<\/a>

Entering Mt. Rushmore area (I saw Washington carved in stone just a moment later!).<\/p><\/div>\n

I actually saw Mount Rushmore as I drove past. I know of people who park illegally on the roadway to save on the parking fee and take a picture that way, but I’m going to do it properly.<\/p>\n

Vicki was awaiting me when I got to her RV park. She pointed out that we could see Washington, Jefferson, and a bit of Lincoln from her spot! Too cool! We did the introductions and settling thing, enjoyed a bit of sun<\/em>, and then she surprised me by making an amazing dinner, a much appreciated gesture! We’re both working tomorrow and Friday, but the weekend will be for adventuring.<\/p>\n

(Sorry for two boring posts in a row, but you might as well get into it since I’ll be home soon! \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was quite a good night in Cheyenne. The trains ran all night, but it was a soothing background noise that didn’t bother me. I would have slept late had I not been woken by a gaggle of kids around 7:00. I’ve been waking up between 5:00 and 6:00 for months, so that was a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[870,873,635,28,3,16,27],"tags":[853],"class_list":["post-3330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cheyenne","category-keystone","category-north-america","category-south-dakota","category-travel","category-usa","category-wyoming","tag-accommodation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}