Aug 13th

Happy lefthanders day!

Another day of seeing this beautiful, amazing country we live in. The weather has been in the 70’s and 80’s in South Dakota. Great weather for hiking. This is the first morning we woke up to 40 degrees weather, burrr!!

Barry turned the fireplace on to warm us up. Then, we have been told the ac unit puts out heat, so we don’t have to use propane. Supposedly, the ac has a heat pump. Which I know from our past home, it is not hot air. Then, our furnace turned on a few minutes later. It was vibrating and loud. It did give us heat; not sure if the vibration and loudness is normal. Will be making another phone call tomorrow to find out.

So, we travelled to Wyoming, today, to see the Devils Tower Monument. On our way we drove the Spearfish Canyon Trail stopping to see 3 waterfalls. The Roughlock waterfall was a mile hike one way. It was so worth the time. Nature at it’s best.

It took us awhile to hike and we really wanted to get to Devils Tower. We decided to bypass the others today. They are close to where we are camping and could hike them on another day. We needed to pace ourselves to hike at Devils Tower. Barry drove us into Wyoming, what a difference of scenery. I thought I would bring you with us on part of our drive.Check out the climbers.A Climber videoAnd, wild life.We walked 12,060 steps today and 17 flights of steps. And, Barry and I survived.It is hard to leave places like this.

Look up the Indian Legend about the Tower.

So, very grateful to be here.Back to South Dakota, we go, collecting lots of bugs on our drives. We saw this huge rocking chair.

We ended the day with a relaxing fire, and we are getting smoked out!! Hope you are having a great night too!