another state ..another long day.

We spent last night in Cody at a old days Inn ,now called "kings Inn" not sure if it was comforting or not to have lots of dead African animals all over in the lobby. But, hey, we'll never forget where we stayed.
 We slept good and headed out for along day of driving.   We did see our first ever antelope, but at 70+ miles an hour no pic's. We may also have seen some wild horses not sure. Bighorn national forest had some nice scenery, but the rest was mostly alot of sagebrush, rolling hills, a few homesteads, horses,cows, oil, coal, and gas mines. Then all the hay fields!

   We did go to "Devils Tower" which was a nice break in the day. On the way up we say a whole field full of prairie dogs. Like 100 or more of them all over.

The  monument was pretty cool. We saw a guy trying to climb it.

  Pulled into Rapid city, South Dakota( our 5th state) around 7ish. Found our hotel and then  headed to the 'Golden Corral" for some very good grub.

  Now for the room report. just in case you were wondering, It was the #2 rated hotel for Rapid city by "tripadvisor"  And so far so good. Actually better than I was expecting. Has an awesome view of Rapid city as it sits on a hill. Room was clean and not as dated as I expected. Really looks like an average hotel room. So far owners have been everything the reports said. I'll let you know how I sleep tomorrow.

Looking forward to tomorrow. we can take our time and really do what we want.