Pig Out
While driving down I-90, we encountered this truck load of incredibly adorable piglets. They will be bacon one day.
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Guard Dog
If you are going to leave your dog in the car, this is the way to do it: in an open topped convertible.
Sanford Lab Homestake Visitor Center
When most mines are shut down, they are sealed up and abandoned. When the second largest gold mine in the world shuts down, it is converted into a cutting edge research facility for studying dark matter.
Sturgis Motorcycle Rally
As is noted by local reporters: this was a record low year for accidents. Congratulations? I guess all those creepy posters in the bathroom stalls made a positive difference for people's lives as opposed to my bowels.
Adams Museum
Adams Museum in the gem in the crown of Deadwood, South Dakota. Most every other part of this tourist town is missable but the Adams Museum justifies a detour. This extensive cabinet of curiosities encompasses gold nuggets, taxidermy oddities, antique counterfeiting tools, a plesiosaur, and a nudist colony. Never forget the nudist colony.
Deadwood, South Dakota
Fortunes were made here. Celebrities died here. The legend endures but the experience of Deadwood, South Dakota is...mixed.
Tri-State Museum
Next to the Geographic Center of the Nation (or, at least, its monument) is the Tri-State Museum. This one-room collection of community artifacts in Belle Fourche, South Dakota includes memorabilia and oddities from prehistoric fossils, cattle ranching, WWII, and modern industries.
Geographic Center of the Nation
I had always thought the center of the nation was was Kansas. Yet, there is a contender for the title. In driving through Belle Fourche, South Dakota, we encountered a large sign announcing a monument for the geographic center of the nation. We had to stop.