{"id":396,"date":"2022-06-27T14:09:08","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T14:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/?p=396"},"modified":"2022-06-27T14:09:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T14:09:09","slug":"rapid-city-trip-day-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/?p=396","title":{"rendered":"Rapid City trip, day six"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It was a cooler day, unlike the temps back home. We started with a stop at a Black Hills gold jewelry factory. Since it was Sunday there was no tour of the factory floor, just a video and a stroll around the factory outlet store. We saw some nice things, but nothing caught Leila\u2019s fancy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nothing like a giant miner to make you want to buy jewelry!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Then it was on to really interesting Lutheran chapel. A local banker had it built as an exact replica of one in Norway, right down to the hand carved figures and roof tiles. We enjoyed the history, the architecture, and the prayer walk they had designed in the woods behind the chapel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The view from the rear of the chapel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Carvings on the roof<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We then took a drive through Sturgis. We were told that between 500,000 and 550,000 riders show up here for the biker event in August; considering this is a small town and that the total population of SD is around 900,000 that is remarkable!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From there we went to Deadwood\u2026lots of history, outlaws, and motorcycles. We had a nice lunch in an old saloon that, while it\u2019s moved across the street, is one of the oldest in town and in its old location is where Wild Bill Hickcox was killed. No gun play during lunch, thankfully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Great looking old bar, complete with sawdust on the floor; lunch was upstairs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Fun old town, and motorcycles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Finally, we had a cowboy chuckwagon dinner, complete with a show after dinner. The brisket was excellent, and the band was great\u2026they were funny, and they were excellent musically. The dinner grounds also had some displays of old western life, including the property owner making rope (out of toilet paper, bringing new life to the thought that two or three cords are stronger together)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Leila getting her bronco riding skills up to speed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The complex had buildings that had been used in the filming of \u201cDances with Wolves.\u201d The film was done 17 miles east of here, and the buildings trucked to this location<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Tomorrow will be a shorter day; we\u2019ll head into Keystone and take a steam train ride to Hill City. More then\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was a cooler day, unlike the temps back home. We started with a stop at a Black Hills gold jewelry factory. Since it was Sunday there was no tour of the factory floor, just a video and a stroll around the factory outlet store. We saw some nice things, but nothing caught Leila\u2019s fancy. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rapid-city-june-2022"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}