7/27/21 - Well the story here still is the heat! Today it hit 113 degrees in the afternoon. It's hot, but with the lower humidity than in Maryland, somehow it is not totally unbearable. While I handled getting the oil in the truck changed, Wendy took care of housekeeping duties of laundry and found that the clothes dried faster on the picnic table than in the dryer. Go figure.

We now are in Rapid City, SD. Busy city to say the least and for the the midwest it's pretty big. Along our drive from Nebraska were buttes and rolling hills in the prairie. Our route skirted the Black Hills (small mountains) just about the entire way.

We quickly dropped the camper at the campground and headed out to explore Spearfish Canyon, about an hour outside of Rapid City. The canyon is narrow, with multiple waterfalls and 800 foot steep canyon walls. The 13 mile long road into the canyon is a repurposed train bed following a stream flowing through the canyon. Beautiful drive and short hikes.