Thursday, July 17, 2008

We had a great night of sleep in Custer State Park, with the windows open; we actually all covered up snuggly in our “Trava-Saks”. Trenton also recieved the first "boo-boos" of the trip. He tripped over the same log twice at our Center Lake camp. Oh well, probably the first of many.
10:00am, gas near Custer, SD, 90580, mi, 24.073gl, $ 98.68, $4.09, ?mpg.
We ate a quick breakfast of cereal in the RV and took off for the Crazy Horse Monument. Thanks to my great map reading skills, we missed the turn for the monument and went about 64 miles out of the way. (Great views of the Black Hills though.) Michael even figured out that this little mishap cost us about $24 in gasoline.

We ate lunch with the Crazy Horse Monument outside the RV windows and then decided to make our way towards Devil’s Tower, WY. We weren’t planning on heading straight through, but both boys fell asleep, so we just kept on trucking and arrived at the tower by about 3:30pm.

We pulled into a KOA right at the base of the tower. What a great view. Our space had the tower in our ”backyard”.

Both boys immediately eyed the pool as we drove in so we headed up to the pool while dad set up camp.
I fixed a spaghetti dinner in my new RV kitchen and everything checked out like a dream. I had already browned the hamburger (Thanks Pat!) and had frozen it so all I had to do was to add sauce and boil the pasta. Yum! Everyone ate really well. All appetites have been great since we’ve started this trip.

After dinner we decided to take a hike around Devil’s Tower. What a great hike. It was a little more than a mile and the weather was just perfect. We had spectacular views of the tower and the bluffs below. It was almost dark when we got back to camp.

Michael and the boys had ice cream from the camp’s general store and the movie “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” was playing on their outside TV, we watched for a little while, but it started to sprinkle so we went of to bed.

Crazy Horse admission $27.00
Stayed at Devils Tower KOA $38.00
Devils tower admission $10.00
Devin fell on the trail.
Boys and Michael had ice cream at the KOA shop $7.00