From Colorado across Wyoming to South Dakota

On Friday evening I landed safe and sound in Denver Colorado, with the song “Rocky Mountain High” in my ears. Then on Saturday evening I met up with my travel tour group, organized by Intrepid. Our tour guide Darin gave us some important information about the upcoming trip and then we headed out to dinner.

Sunday morning we started our trip from Colorado, and went on the road across the wide open spaces of Wyoming.

This is how we have lunch pretty much every day.

Then finally we arrived at our first that day, at the museum The Mammoth Site of Hot Springs, South Dakota. In 1974, right at this place, where now stands the museum, mammoth bones were found. They set bones of already 61 mammoths free. These giants must have been drowned there in a sinkhole myriads of thousands of years ago. The archeologists are still digging and finding new bones. It was quite interesting to learn more about that era, where mammoths where still alive.

A mammoth skeleton.

After our visit at the museum we were on our way to our hotel the Bavarian Inn in Custer.

We checked in and headed out for dinner at the State Game Lodge built in 1920. We had fun, talking and getting to know each other better.