Mt Rushmore / Crazy horse / Custer State Park - South Dakota Custer State Park was next on our planned route, but the sods wanted to charge us $15 to enter, plus all the campsites were full (just bad karma all round) so we decided to push on through the park and found the perfect camp site near the town of Custer. We found ourselves quite nicely positioned to cover some major attractions. Woke up at normal time, and headed for the 4 old dudes on a rock. Aga...

Badlands National Park - South Dakota The drive was a little too long to do in one day so we spent one night on Lake Vermillion, near Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Up early the next morning, we drove and drove until we saw the Badlands sign. Not to forget the stops along the way though, enter The corn palace - WTF? Oakes built a palace using dried corn cobs… and 1880 town which was very sweet - most of the stuff we saw in the town was used as props for the m...