2025 August 15 - 22 South Dakota
For breakfast this morning, Ron made us his world famous french toast. He makes it all the time for his 30+ grandkids and I think he forgot that he was only cooking for 8, because he made a massive stack of and used 2 full loafs of bread. Then he made about 2 dozen scrambled eggs to boot. No one went hungry this morning.
This was going to be our off day and we only planned to go walk the shops of Deadwood. But we opted to ride Spearfish Canyon (for the 4th time) then ride the highway back to Deadwood. It was still a beautiful ride. The ride started at 75 degrees as we left the house, then 72 when we got to Spearfish Canyon. But the temperature rose steadily the whole way up to Spearfish. By the end it was 85 degrees when we stopped at a convenience store for water.
After cooling down a bit, we took the highway back to Deadwood. We parked in the garage for $10 for 24 hours so we could come back tonight during the Deadwood Kool Nites classic car show.
We did allot of trinket and gift shopping up and down the street. Nan bought an insulated water bottle. If anyone ever wants to buy a unique cowboy hat, Deadwood is the place. Every shop had leather hats and one shop even seemed to custom make hats. If I hadn't already spent all that time a few months ago researching what I wanted and picking out a good hat, this would have been a good opportunity to find one.
After a couple hours of shopping, we met up at the Stockyard for lunch. We've eaten here several times over the years and it's always been good food. Everyone split a miles, like chicken sandwich or french dip, but Nan and I each got a crispy chicken salad. Nan's had ranch and mine had balsamic dressing. They were really good and it felt good to eat something more healthy than meat and potatos.
Stockyard Restaurant
Can someone explain to me why young people think vertical photos look good for every single picture they take? I really didn't need half of my photo to be the ceiling of the restaurant. Do they not look at the phone as they take the picture? Ok, that's enough grumpy old man voice.
After lunch we walked next door and got Ice Cream. John took a picture of us...... Hmm, I guess it's not just the younger generation that uses vertical for every picture. But at least his is well framed.
Nan started getting tired when we finished the ice cream, so we texted the others that we were heading back to the bikes then to the house. We mounted up and took the back road to Lead. Nan lay down to rest and I went back to writing the Blog.
Eventually everyone came back. We chatted for a while about maybe doing a ride. I thought it would be too long because I miss-understood the route so we didn't go. Instead I lay down for 45 minutes and got a nice rest. As a result, I'll probably be awake till 11:30 and wake up at 4:00 tomorrow morning. Maybe not, it was allot of walking.
We ate spaghetti for dinner. It's been nice to save some money by cooking dinners rather than going out every night. We've always made breakfasts on these trip, but this is the first time we've tried to make both breakfast and dinner. But it can be a challenge to find meals that everyone agrees on. We had a couple of exceptions to our meals this week but it all worked out.
After dinner we planned on going to the Lead Live a local festival in the town we're staying. Angela wasn't feeling well, so they stayed but the rest of us hopped on the bikes and headed down. We say a big tent with about 20 people in it but it didn't look particularly festive so after a short discussion we decided just to go to the car show in Deadwood.
There were allot of people but it wasn't super crowded. We easily found parking spots in the garage and didn't even have to double up the parking spaces. This is the first night of the show so it must have had fewer cars. Only the Northern half of main street had cars. When I was here years ago there were cars everywhere, including all of the ground level parking lots.
We started browsing cars but soon all the others, including Nan had wandered away from me. I took my own sweet time and meandered slowly up the street.
Looking up Main Street
1967 Ford Bronco Half Cab
While I was meandering, I saw a group of guys dressed ol' timey and figured some so of re-enactment was going to happen. Sure enough, one guy asked us to clear the center of the street and they re-enacted the capture of Jack something who shot Wild Bill Hickock.
We spent a couple hours at the car show, then headed back to the house. No one was really interested in playing cards so I worked on the blog and everyone else got ready for bed. I've actually managed to finish the blog on the day of, so I might sit and practice my ukulele a bit then go to bed. I'd like to sit in the Hot Tub, but I can't sleep when it's hot so I always wind up spending an hour cooling off and I'm already going to struggle getting to sleep after this afternoon's nap. A little quiet time will be nice.
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