Day 13: Mount Rushmore We left around 9:30 am to do a quick visit of Mount Rushmore before getting on the road for our long drive (about 6 hours) to De Smet, South Dakota. We were lucky that it wasn't too crowded. It only cost our entire RV $5 to get in to Mount Rushmore because my parents are seniors. I didn't expect if to be so inexpensive. When we walked in, there was a woman next to a map of the world who asked us to write our name on a little sticker and...

Day 12: Custer and Crazy Horse We were pretty tired when we woke up. The tent was very cold and the cold kept waking me up. We decided to drive to Custer State Park to drive the wildlife loop, which we were told would take about an hour. It took a bit longer than that because we stopped a couple of times and the road was not that easy for an RV. In fact, at one point there was a very sharp turn on a very steep decline and it was pretty scary. My dad had to ba...

Day 11: Bar Nunn, Wyoming to Custer, South Dakota As usual we intended to leave around 9 and actually left around 10:30. Today's reason was because the bathroom started leaking. The water was coming from somewhere near the bottom of the toilet and running out the door and down the floor. It was also leaking out of the RV onto the ground. My dad asked for help from the RV park owner but he couldn't tell what was wrong, My dad also called the RV rental place but ...

Day 3: Mitchell, SD to Hill City, SD We woke up pretty early and ate cereal and some good chocolate chip coffee cake the that my mom brought along. If any of you know my mom, you will know that she is one of the most prepared people in the entire world. She spent a lot of time making sure that we had everything we would need. I know this trip is a little hard for all of us because we are in such close quarters and there is so much driving but I think we are han...

Day 2: Minnesota to Mitchell, South Dakota Ellie made us some great eggs and the boys played FIFA on my brother's Xbox. We hit the road around 11:30, only an hour after we actually hoped to leave. The drive was pretty uneventful. My dad did a great job driving and my mom did a mostly great job navigating except when she somehow kept closing the Google Maps app and kept opening that other iPhone map app that doesn't work as well, causing a great deal of confus...