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| Road Trip 2004 - links to images and words on the road to see Rush:
Monday July 5, 2004 Devils Tower Wyoming - Looming and Towering over the
bucolic pastureland.
Wouldn't you know it - a fairly hard rain is falling as we arrive to Devils Tower.
So, we hightailed it to Deadwood, SD. There are casinos here, we stayed at The Mint casino which has a collection of movie memorabilia.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Monday July 5, 2004 Monday found us back on the road, rain following us. We headed to Deadwood, SD via Devil's Tower. By the time we hit Devil's Tower it was raining pretty hard. We stopped at the visitor's center, but the weather just wasn't cooperating for a walk on the trails around the base of the tower. We left and rolled into Deadwood around 6pm CST. Deadwood is the place where Wild Bill Hickok was shot. Once a wild rough-and-tumble western town, now it hosts many casinos. We stayed at The Mint Casino; actually we were in a kind of apartment across the street. Not a bad deal, $120 for a two-bedroom suite with a kitchen and living room of sorts. I made $5 on the slots; Karen did OK at the blackjack tables. There were mostly slots there, and poker and blackjack in some of the casinos. No craps or other table games, odd for a gambling town. We had a very nice dinner in a restaurant above one of the casinos. We had to leave via the back door, as there are pretty strict laws about having minors on the casino floors after 9pm and Matt certainly didn't qualify as someone allowed to gamble. Karen and I stumbled back to the room a little after midnight, as most of the places closed up at 11pm.
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