The Badlands? Well it must have Bad Men? Why else have such a name? So keen to find about these bad men in the Badlands we set off on the start of our 550km easterly drive cross country on Interstate 90. On reaching the town of Wall we missed the exit to the Badlands National Park and had to drive an extra 6km to the next exit turn around. What a stroke of luck! By missing the Wall exit we stumbled upon a sign to the Minuteman Missile Historic Site. Greg, bei...

Take me back to the Black Hills, the Black Hills of Dakota. This line from a song from the movie 'Calamity Jane' has been ringing in our ears for the last few days. In 2009 we spent three months touring the USA on our Triumph Sprint ST motorcycle. One of the most memorable parts of that trip was a visit to the Black Hills Motorcycle Rally at Sturgis. We spent a week in the area around Rapid City. The roads on that visit were clogged with riders no matter where y...