Our trip today was a drive north to Deadwood in the north Black Hills. Deadwood was a rip roaring gold town that featured in a TV series which I believe Gordon Ramsey used to watch to practice his limited vocabulary. The main street is a mass of saloons and casinos just like it was in its heyday. We checked out the cemetery where Wild Bill Hickcock and Clamity Jane are the prime tourist attraction. People leave presents of coins, cigarettes and whiskey. There is a charge to enter the cemetery and a tour bus gives all the details of they lived and died in Deadwood.

Leaving Deadwood we took the Spearfish Canyon Scenic Byway which has specacular scenery.

Entering Wyoming we took a side trip to the Devils Tower National Monument - a popular climbing tower 800 feet high.

Tomorrow we finish our first western leg of the trip at Yellowstone. After that we head south.