Today we drove about 5 hours from the Northeast corner of Colorado to Wind Cave National Park in Southwest South Dakota. On the way we stopped to pay homage to carhenge in Alliance, Nebraska. We saw a few buffalo on the way into the park but wonder what it must have been like when there were thousands of them filling the wide open spaces.
We stopped twice for gas. The first time we had no issues but the second time we had the same old problem. The engine recovered pretty quickly – a minute or so – and the noise was kept to a minimum because I have replaced the exhaust manifold gasket. I guess we will have to learn to live with it. I did check the distributor and the advance is still moving freely – don’t know if the spring post is still OK or not but at least the advance is not stuck on any more.
We are camping at Wind Cave National Park and it is beautiful. Very serene. Camping is only $9 per night – no hookups of course but that’s why it is so quiet and peaceful here. The ranger told us the camping area has never been filled. I guess lots of people don’t like dry camping but we love it (short term of course). When we drove into the park, we saw the small herd of buffalo pictured above and then later saw one resting near the road. Tomorrow is the big buffalo roundup in Rapid City and we will miss seeing it so glad that we got to see these guys today.
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