June 28, 2013: Deadwood to Bell Fourches, South Dakota

Nice fishing camp campground lst night with a stocked fishing hole.  You can catch and take home or they will cook it for you right there with all the dinner trimmings.  We had already planned dinner, so passed on fishing for our supper.

Woke up to another beautiful clear, cool morning.

We walked around downtown Deadwood (our second time here) without putting a single coin in a slot machine. 

Main Street, Deadwood

We did visit a local museum with exhibits of the gold rush that founded the town, the ethnic mix of the townsfolk and folk heroes like Wild Bill Hickok who was killed while playing poker at Saloon #10 and the legendary madams of the brothels that were operating openly into the early 1980's.

Actual door from brothel.  Lots of locks and a peephole.

Out of Deadwood, we took the beautiful Spearfish Canyon drive, stopping beside a small spillway for lunch and walking to see a dramatic waterfall. 

Our Lunch Spot in Spearfish Canyon

We stopped in the town of spearfish for shopping for supplies and food and stopped for the evening in a small town just north of I90 called Belle Fourches.  The campground has everything for at least 50 RVs plus tent sites, but there are only two of us here.  Hmm, we ran into this a week or so ago at another campground.  Is there something wrong?  Is it us?  Bet the Friday night trivia team is winning without us, too.....we are getting some kind of psycho-complex.