Whew, finally back home! We took a trip to Wyoming and South Dakota. Such a wonderful time. We hiked Devil’s Tower. That was an adventure. The nice part is that is it totally accessible so my husband was able to join us on the hike.

In SD we took a jeep tour to tour Custer State Park. It did the animal trail and took us into parts of the Park you can’t go on your own. I was in heaven. All those buffawhoa! as I call them, lol. Bison. I did some research and they really aren’t buffalos. They are bison. There is actually a difference. It is the shape and size of the heads. Horns are different and the bison can get up to 3000 pounds! Whoa is right!

And the bison are female centric. The males are in the herd until between 2 1/2 and 3 years old. Depends on their assholery, lol. The matriarch will kick them out when they are sick of them. Then they are only allowed to be near them when it is mating season.

This is mainly a herd of females. There were a couple of males, but they are heading into mating season so they were tolerated.

This dude was on his own, lol. Just outside of our campsite.

We also visited Mount Rushmore and I finally got to hike the presidential trail. Stopped in and saw the carving studio along the trail. The hubby was only able to go .2 of a mile, because that is when the trail is no longer accessible. It’s all stairs the rest of the way. A beautiful hike despite all the stairs.

At the campground we saw bison, big horn sheep (I thought they were goats!) deer, a momma and baby buffalo (so cute!) turtles, fish and donkeys! It was awesome. The campgrounds only have electric if you go in a motorhome or travel trailer. There are tent spots and they rent one room cabins that do have air conditioning.

Since it was over a 100 degrees when we got there, it bears mentioning!

Big horn sheep. I still think they look like goats!

The donkeys were hilarious. I was cracking up. They have no shame and will eat just about anything you give them, even if they shouldn’t have it. And good luck getting rid of them!

Now, with a new school year starting, I’m back to girl scouts, babysitting and sitting my butt at the computer to get words down – and not just on my blog!

Have a good weekend. I’m off to hike at a local state park with the girl scout troop.