So what’s there to do in Las Vegas, if you aren’t a gambler (which we aren’t)? Well, fans of the weird and wonderful owe it to themselves to take a walk through the surreal landscape that is Vegas. Wander up and down the Strip, in and out of the big casinos, and marvel (or roll [...]
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The historic part of downtown Rapid City is home to one obvious sight, and two you’ll have to go looking for. As soon as you enter downtown, with its strip of antique stores and coffee shops lining Main and St. Joseph streets, you’ll see the “City of Presidents” exhibit, or at least some of it. Life-size [...] The twin cities of Deadwood and Lead (pronounced like the verb, not the element) are about seventy miles from Custer. Deadwood has a rowdy history (you’ve seen the HBO series, right?), and these days it’s heavy on the casino-and-tourist-trap side. This surprisingly small city is tucked away in the Black Hills, and if you blink [...] Our first stop was the big one, of course: Mt. Rushmore. Rushmore is one of those tourist attractions that somehow doesn’t seem real, because it’s so frequently featured in movies. It’s got the same sense of quiet unreality that visiting, say, the Death Star might have. We kept having to tap ourselves on the shoulder [...] Just over the border into Utah (Baker is less than ten miles from the edge of Nevada) we found some fascinating dried lakebeds, perfect for shooting pretty pictures. Before Lexie arrived, I went snowshoeing with the Silver Jack’s proprietor Terry. Snowshoeing? Never tried it before; why not? |
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