Missed the buffalo roundup; but as it turns out, they don’t attempt to round up the adult bulls, too difficult to manage, so they are scattered all around the park and show up in the most interesting places. We found one guarding the restroom at one of the trailheads. Seems no one was in a hurry to “budge” that line.
Lots of wild life: Deer, prong horn antelope, bighorn sheep, pheasant, turkey. While hiking Lynn scared a small (2ft) light brown snake (prairie rattler? We were both moving too fast to know for sure!) off into the taller grass.
The black hills are beautiful. Lots of pines with a smattering of birch that are just changing to a bright yellow.
LAUNDRY! Not quite as terrible as I remembered the Laundromat experience….of course it helped that it is actually at the state park campground so I could sit outside in the bright sun with a great view while I waited. Still, not my favorite task but I guess I will survive.
We will be staying a couple more days.

More time at Custer
We had some great lawn ornaments today. 13 bighorn sheep and a couple lambs spent all day in camp. Sometimes outside the fence. Sometimes inside the fence. They hopped over it like it wasn’t even there. Great fun to watch.
Kent got a workout driving curly roads again. We took the Miata on a drive with lots of switchbacks and fun steep grades through wild craggy granite formations and wonderful smelling pines. Fall colors are getting more vivid everyday. At the end was Sylvan Lake with huge boulders along the shore. Reminiscent of the shorelines at Rock Lake in Canada.
We had s’mores for dessert tonight! Yummmmmmmm