What is RV Work Camping Like?? // RV Life Errands, Work and Fun in Custer State Park

with the first couple of days under our belt and with the blessings of the Buffalo this week leads into my birthday and the start of a new job plus I'm not going to waste any time doing two of my favorite things in kuster State Park well Lindsay doesn't know it yet but it's her birthday what it's my birthday hbt hbd happy birthday happy happy birthday Lindsay thank you how old are you live in a zoo you do live in a zoo I do y we live in a zoo 28 years old good for you I'm 42 oh you robbing the cradle yeah want a Leonardo DiCaprio here today is Lindsay's birthday if you don't know anything about Lindsay and her birthday she doesn't just get a birthday she gets a birthday month and it usually starts the last week or so of June and goes through the middle of July a little bit beyond she always gets fireworks for her birthday because her birthday is July 3rd um so there's bound to be fireworks tonight um but it's great and Lindsay told you how old she is I don't know how old she is I just know she's younger than me she doesn't have gray in her her beard like I do I have gray in my hair so I ain't showing it so today I do work I was able to switch a shift around so I'm working in the morning which is not my favorite shift so far um but what that does allow me to do is to be home from a baby girl so I'm going to go to work and then we're going to go find something fun to do for her birthday yay what are we going to do for my birthday I have no idea we're going to find some food yep food eat food we're going to Forge Forge we're going to forge in the local communities yeah sounds good okay so that's the plan of the day of course you're coming along with us because that's what we do we bring you along in our life and uh this is exciting we left Florida one week ago today which is crazy we we've like life has changed so much in just a week but that's how life on the road Works um things will slow down for us a little bit once we start getting used to being here but in the meantime going to carry on with the new um schedule and the new routines and that includes getting my poor sweet dogs outside so they can go Pate all dressed up and nowhere to go don't always get pred up but when I do I wear my linen pants and a t-shirt I wear my linen pants too I don't know why I'm talking all Southern linen pants woohoo where's yours wo birthday girl going on birthday dinner yep I found a place in Hill City um that looks really good it's Asian it's new opened last year so I'm go try it out it's got great reviews sounds good you like your tii I do I love Thai food so we're going to try to find Thai food there yep spicy no not spicy Tha spicy thae hot that's what I'm getting thae hot okay you can get I'm I'm going to cry I want my brain to drip out of my nose I don't I don't know if they do all that I mean it's Asian fusion okay so it's also in South Dakota yeah this is South Dakota so all right let's go check it out one of the nice things maybe not so nice things about living in the woods is our neighborhood is about a 20-minute drive to get to anywhere and it's a beautiful 20-minute Drive which is why it's great but it can also be a little bit of an inconvenience so where we're going to Hill city is about 45 minutes away we're going to take the scenic route but to get to the scenic route we got to do that 20 minutes of uh neighborhood driving it's pretty cool when you drive through the neighborhood you might see bison deer elk what else oh CH chippy monk chippy chippies chippy monks call we call them chippies um or chippy chips cu the dogs all excited cuz the dogs yeah they get all spooled up so we have to spell things out sometimes with the dogs they're too smart but uh this drive is just absolutely beautiful to get through the neighborhood and uh yeah that's where we're headed so we are taking the scenic route to Hill City and by scenic route I mean we are taking the very famous Needles Highway um to get up to Hill City basically you just take half of it it's would call it a shortcut cuz it is a Scenic crowd it's it's a longer way but it's the prettiest way and um recently a storm just blew through it missed us thank goodness but there is hail like piles of hail all over the side of the road like so much of it that it looks like snow but we learned from last year we had um a hail storm come through where it just brain down small like you know very small pieces of hail but tons of it where it it just piles up on the side of the road and it's so thick that it looks like snow and we're like oh there's snow on the the side of the road but we're like no there's no way and then you go and you pick it up and and it's just little pieces of ice and it's all over um the side of the let remind everybody what what day this is and what month it is oh it's my birthday yeah which is July 3rd okay so there's this is July big chunks of hail it looks like snow on the ground it looks like snow and it's 61° right now yeah in July in July which is one part of the reason why why we like this place is temperatures are great in summer too what the heck is all this hail doing just chilling out literally it's it'll be there for a day maybe even more probably especially in the shade the menu at lemongrass it's an Asian fusion style they have a bunch of different things from dumplings and Sates to uh burgers and steak sandwiches but we were really craving some really good Asian food so we were undecided between the chicken curry which I heard was really good the chicken Sates with a peanut butter sauce and the steak fried rice and we ended up going with the chicken Sate and the steak fried rice and it was delicious the steak and the fried rice was cooked perfectly and I would say the chicken saes were my favorite um the peanut butter sauce was so good and we also ordered the chicken and lemongrass dumplings which were also wonderful as well and it came with the dipping a dipping sauce very delicious while we're at one restaurant we just called another because we know where the best desserts are in Hill City that's at the Alpine end and Lindsay loves her Tera massu that she gets there I think it's because I just read it's got alcohol on it oh yeah so we're going to head over there after this I'm freezing Mr Bigglesworth it's freaking freezing Mr fre freezing it's freaking freezing Mr Bigglesworth that's the L not I'm freezing it's cold it's 55° right now oh my gosh and windy we left 100° Florida and we and we went to Winter and we went to Winter yeah okay so we are back home and it was cold so we got the heater going see we got our little space heater going sorry our floor is uh is a mess and um about to open up this goodie bag of desserts I got sitting on the the stove here I am excited to eat that I got tasu and Chris got a chocolate peanut butter cup ice cream pie it was like a mouthful um it looked that one looked really good but I think it's all going to be hopefully it's not melted oh it melted sorry babe it's melted good thing it didn't leak out but it's melted not terrible but I don't have the freezer space to you sure okay I can move I move some cake around we got we got a freezer full of carrot cake if we bought dessert but that's what I've been eating it's my birthday and I wanted terisu I love teramis especially the one from the Alpine in look at this it might be upside down oh wow I melted B time look at that I'm going to get to work m M this is the best the best so good let's take a look at Chris's melted mess it looked way better when we got it but it took like over 30 minutes to get home and then we had to stop and get gas so but I'm sure it's still yummy yeah isn't it it's amazing it's really good huh yeah it's not on my diet at all I I could smell was peanut butter cuz it was melting on the way here oh yeah it's right here though will be better I got a little bit too much chocolate look at [Music] that so good happy birthday to me all right we are going to finish our desserts watch the little TV and um call it a night no fireworks yeah I don't know I don't know about fireworks it's going to be cold and we did fireworks last year and they literally didn't go off until like 11:00 p.m. cuz it doesn't get dark here until like after 9:00 and yeah and it was cold and rainy and kind of want to do that again I'd rather be warm than in my RV so and the dogs don't like fireworks so I mean Everest doesn't like fireworks at all she's terrified of them and the heater's not working in the car and the heater we figured out today is we're freezing our butts off that the heater is not working on our car but I think it's just a switch um I'm going to take a look at it tomorrow during the day when it's warmer oh and I start work tomorrow I I start training to drive the Chuck Wagon that's going to be fun yeah so probably do that tomorrow do a little online work try to piix Cedar in the car won't be doing fireworks even though I will be done with the Chuck Wagon um before the fireworks go off in town but I don't know he'll probably just skip it I'm not going so you're going to be working he's going to be working at the restaurant so Huckleberry you're going to have to be okay being by yourself but bu yeah so we're going to call it a night now that I got the car fixed very quickly much quicker than I expected uh pretty awesome fixed it for free hopefully it doesn't act up again but now I know that all I have to do is just tap on it with the hammer screwdriver unplug the cords plug it back in and it works fine and it's easy to get to so got the car fix and today is um an exciting day for me because I will be training to drive the check wagon um tonight starting at 4: so at 4:00 um I will go over to the lodge and meet with my or meet with a driver that's going to be training me his name is Allan um he's been a Chuck Wagon driver here for several years uh I don't know him really well but I know him I know him well enough from the past last two summers I worked here really nice guy it'll be fun hanging out with him for for a couple of hours and and learning the ropes and then I think I drive um tomorrow night and I'm either going to have him or someone else in the truck with me or I might be alone I might be doing it by myself I'm not 100% positive but tonight I will be riding along and learning the ropes and I will uh try and take the camera along with me I probably will not have it um like in 's face or anything me and Chris are very kind of uh we don't like to do that that much but I'll take the camera with me and I'll catch some things uh while I'm while I'm learning and while I'm training uh the Chuck Wagon is a lot of fun it is a very busy event that the Blue Bell Lodge does they do it every night every day of the week it is a lot of fun the Chuck Wagon it's a hay ride it's pulled by a truck and we drive along down down uh the wildlife for a tiny bit and then we go off on a dirt Gravel Road um that has a lot of great views sometimes we see bison sometimes we see big horn sheep um we always see prairie dogs and we stop and and um give basically like a tour I will just be driving um the Chuck Wagon will actually have a Entertainer on board that plays the guitar and sing songs and he does a little uh tour basically like a tour guide like he tells some facts and some history of the park and different things and it's just a really fun event um and then we take them after we do the little Scenic Loop we take them down into a really pretty private Valley no one else in the park is allowed to go there um so it's it's a very uh neat experience because you get to see a side of the park that you would not see if you were to just um drive around and and do it yourself so we take them down there in that Valley I have a really awesome cookout with entertainment all the basically all the entertainers get together and they sing as a group and they sing songs and they they'll do some requests and there's some dancing um lots of fun for kids and families and also adults sometimes I mean you might think oh it might be like a little corny and just a family thing but it is a lot of fun even if you're just an adult it's just you and your spouse or you and a friend or girls night or guys night or whatever it's a lot of fun for every every one um great food get a choice between a steak or a burger or if you're a vegetarian a veggie burger um and all the fixings go with it um just a really good time it is almost 4:00 I just finished getting ready for work and now I am driving the car down to where the Chuck Wagons are and I'm going to learn how to Hitch up the trucks and the wagons and then pull it over to the lodge well we got the wagons all hitched up and we fluffed up the hay that's in the back of the wagons dusted off the seats made sure all the lights worked and the wheels were tight and um we drove them over to the lodge so I pulled the wagon over there um by myself over to the lodge easy peasy and um now we are just waiting for all the guests to arrive um it's just after 5:00 a.m. and we take off at 5:30 it is Saturday we have now officially been here one whole week and gotten settled in and um we've had some uh things Chang that we will uh we'll talk on later but today I am going to go horseback riding it has been literally since October been month sou Dakota yes lots of horses and I have a friend that I made last year uh she's awesome and um she has this Arabian mayor that I absolutely fell in love with last year can't believe I've ever said I fell in love with a mayor but I love this may uh she's pretty amazing tell everybody what a m is a m is a female horse I think I would think most people would know that but guess I guess there probably are some that don't but that is a female horse um and she's literally one of the best trail horses if not the best trail horse I've ever read ridden and uh so I'm going to go ride with my friend Shannon today she's got a new horse and last year she had a second horse but he wasn't really a trail horse so now she's got another a second Trail horse so now we can really officially go riding together so I'm really excited and I've got more time off this year that I can go see her on the weekends when she has more time available to ride so going to head out that way right now so excited to be here like I said earlier I haven't ridden in like eight months since the last time I was here at the end of October and uh yeah can't wait have to go find the horses out in this huge Paddock behind me um and Shannon should be here in a few minutes she's got um some new horses and joy who's the Arabian mayor that I ride and she's got some llamas this is Mr T that's pacing back behind me he wants me to come say hi to him so so I'll go do that right now hopefully he doesn't uh try and spit on me he never has so they're pretty friendly so let's go say hi to him hi hi hi Mr hello hello yes you're a handsome boy yes you are handsome yes you are no no pets no pets Shannon has a female llama over here that is literally she is so sweet oh and here she is she looks a lot like Mr T I forgot her name though I feel bad but she is a sweetheart I'm not she's got a lot of sheep and goats too here turn the camera around hi pretty girl hi hi oh don't you saying hi or you going to spit huh yeah hi goats hi goats hello [Music] hi little baby goat little the baby goat it's the baby goat huh they're all so friendly oh you got a twin I hear you sheeps all the sheeps hello [Music] hello hello what a fun ride and I've totally got helmet head I wear a helmet when I ride and uh it made my bangs all sort of crazy cuz it got hot it got hot today um but man what a nice ride Shannon got a new horse this year and he is gorgeous he's almost jet black he's like a really really really dark Bay or dark brown almost black and uh he did really well I mean he's mostly used to he's a carriage horse he's an ex omish Carriage horse and that's what he's really used to he is broke to a saddle as well um and he did really good he wanted he wanted to ride in the road mostly I think because that's what he did that's what he grew up doing was pulling a carriage on a road and so he preferred to be on the road and I was trying to get him used to walking in the grass but but when we were on the trails he did amazing like he did really good the only time he ever spooked was we were on the side of the road and a Truck came flying by and I thought he was going to be fine with traffic because he's an ex Carriage horse you know that's what they do they're around traffic but when you're pulling a carriage they all you also the horses wear blinders so they can't see what's behind them and what comes up next to them so we're out riding you know no blinders and this truck comes out of nowhere you know hauling but up the road and it and it kind of spooked them he you know his spook was not bad at all and I can handle that that's not a big deal it's only horses that blow up that I don't want to be on and he never he never felt like he was going to do that at all so I think he's a really good horse I think he's a keeper I'm going to be so sore and I just found out that I have to drive the Chuck Wagon again tonight so I got to go um go home to the Arby shower really quick I'm going to throw a hat on cuz I don't have time to do anything with my hair um and get ready for the Chuck Wagon I'm going to be tired I'm going to be exhausted tomorrow I'm going to be so sore cuz I haven't ridden in 8 months and we did a lot God we probably rode at least five or six miles I would say I didn't I didn't track it but we rode for a while for a few hours so a lot of fun this is my first night driving uh the Chuck Wagon um by myself without training having a lot of fun um we have Lily the Entertainer she is great she's hilarious um really nice really nice girl uh and um it's been a great day got to go horseback riding earlier now I'm driving the Chuck Wagon I'm exhausted but I uh brought some coffee with me and uh ready to have a steak for dinner CU I have not I've hardly eaten all day um I've snacked and uh but man this has been an awesome day it just uh makes me happy that we came we came here here to South Dakota and I'm really really enjoying doing the Chuck Wagon the people are awesome I love driving the park and spotting the animals we just saw an antalope unfortunately the Bison um are not on this end of the park right now and they're at the Northern end um but that's okay you know it's still so so much Beauty to see and the chck wagon is so much fun you have a great Entertainer when you're on the wagon again um you know and then you get to have a great dinner afterwards uh it's just it's just a really good time and and I'm really really enjoying doing it one of the things that we were really questioning when we came back out here um because we had the lights come on and the dashboard and then we had the uh the hail storm and then we get here and I wasn't really making a whole lot of money as a server um things that were just doubts that we were having um one of the things that we we really missed about home was our church community and we I think Lindsay's talked about that in Past Times about how we went to church so as much as we could and just really good to be there well there's a chapel here where they usually use things it's an outdoor Chapel where um it's usually just weddings and that's how it's been the last two years there's not been anything other than weddings there and we show up and this year there's actually uh a mission group that's there that has Sunday morning service so it's kind of cool that one of the things that that we were really worried about leaving behind was waiting for us as soon as we got here so we're going to go to church right now Y and take the dogs we could take the dogs to church yeah all right hey y'all so I just finished my online work for today and I don't have to drive the Chug wagon tonight so me and the dogs we are going to go for a ride nice little ride around Park we're going to do one of my favorite Loops I don't remember the uh the names of the roads but there is a road off the wildlife Loop um that basically starts in kuster state park and then ends up in windcave National Park and it makes this big loop it's a dirt Gravel Road makes this big loop and it goes through Wind Cave and then it turns into I believe it turns into to um gosh one of the National Park Road number five or something like that and it's where I usually see the most uh Wildlife I usually see coyotes buring owls I see Badgers sometimes i' I've seen elk out there um lots of uh I I see mostly I don't see white tailed deer but I'll see the mule deer out there um so yeah so we're going to go explore a little bit we always see prairie dogs like gets the dogs all excited when they see the prairie dogs um so we're going to go do that [Music] so I just parked at the spot that um the really the only spot that I found burrowing owls at last year um and I remember the hole they were in they were right in this general area so I'm going to wait and see if one uh pops its head out I don't really know I don't think they winter here I'm pretty sure they they um go south in the winter and then they come back here in the summer spring and summer um I don't know if they go back to the exact same hole but they take over basically they take over abandoned prairie dog holes that's what they do and they usually just sit right at the top of the hole and they peek their head out sometimes they'll stand on top you know on the top of the mound um and look around and a lot of times you'll see birds flying in an out and you'll see the birds laying on the ground and that's usually a burrowing owl um haven't seen any yet but I'm looking pretty much in the exact spot that I remember seeing them last year so going to wait be patient and hopefully they came back here [Music] camera take this lens off and put this bad boy on Zooms in zooms out and Zooms in much further this will help me um basically act like binoculars and uh see if I see any birds out here any owls Ty of gas it's not a burrowing Outlet no there is a bird there there is something sitting there I was right there is a bird sitting on that mound there's something there I see something but it's not still too far away my eyes might be fulling me it might be a rock which happens to me a lot yeah it's just a rock got my hopes up let me zoom in on some of these other holes just can't do it with my glasses on no just prairie dogs I don't un fortunately I don't have a lot of patience it's one of my downfalls with Wildlife photography there's just like so much to see you know so many different places to go there's something running there's a coyote literally there's a coyote let's go check him out hold on he's running right over here I usually see coyotes out of here he's on a mission he is gone he took off yeah he's gone there's another car pulled up but uh that coyote took off prairie dogs aren't even afraid of them they're still out of their Burrows but yeah he's still it's like my dream on my bucket list not my dream but on my bucket list to find a badger and a coyote working together to get a prairie dog cuz they do that they will they will they will team up and um I want to see that I think that would be so cool he's still hanging out over there he kind of slowed down but he's way out there so can't really won't show up on camera but cool that I saw that still no signs of vowels there used to be one over on this side of the road too last year that I saw but like I said I don't know if they return to the same Hall every year no signs of growing owls um here right now um so we're going to continue on um I would like to do the loop into the W um into back into kuster State Park and we're kind of starting to lose daylight here um so let's get going it lit literally just takes my breath away every time I see it this drive never gets old absolutely probably one of my favorite drives in this area area it's NPS National Park Service Road 5 to National Park Service Road 6 and Wind Cave and oh my gosh it's just it's a must you can do it basically in any vehicle the roads are in you know they're in really nice gravel dirt roads that are maintained for the most part there was there was a couple big potholes but other than that um easy very easy to do in my CRV you could do it in a car sedan you know whatever you have um must do it if you're out here must beautiful anope Buck right over here there's also a bison I'll be on this hill did not think this was going to happen I just found elk pretty wild so so cool look at this and I'm pretty sure it's three or four bucks this is awesome they're looking at me right out there little dots CU I can't zoom in very far on this camera but definitely definitely elk rare find a rare find that's pretty awesome they're looking at me they're a little worried let's see if I can get a get a picture yep just as I suspected big bull elk big set of antlers on them still growing um it won't be riding season until September so so still got a little bit to go to grow but uh there's about four about four bull elk I'll pull them up on my camera here well pretty sure I found a buring owl he's in uh the kuster state park side I just crossed the fence a minute ago and um saw a bird flying bigger than a normal metal l or Robin and he landed on a hole on a prairie dog hole but he's way out there way out there but he's definitely pretty positive it's burrowing out but I'm not going to be able to show it on camera and I'm not going to be able to hike out there I mean I might be able to one day but not with the dogs in the car and I mean he's way out there I I'm looking at him right now definitely looks like an owl H we'll have to to come back well it has definitely been fun driving around the night saw a lot um saw more than what I expected to see and saw less than what I wanted to see surprise saw elk um didn't see the growing owls where I wanted to see them but I did find one so that's exciting I know where to look now or I know where to come back to um but the sun is starting to set and it's going to get dark soon and I really don't I don't like driving in the dark so it is time to head back so how about it dogs do you have fun did you have fun yeah it's time to time to head home Chris will be home soon he gets off or the lodge closes at 8 it's almost 8:00 now and uh he'll be home hopefully soon after that well today is Thursday and it's one of Chris's days off he has Thursdays and Sundays off I have most stays off um except for the nights that I drive the Chuck Wagon um which is usually on the weekends um I think I'm going to be driving mostly Friday and Monday and possibly some Wednesdays some Saturdays so just depends on how busy it is and what drivers we have but today is our official day off together and we need to run into Rapid City we are going to run to Walmart there are two Walmart in Rapid City um and we are going to do our basically our probably every two week maybe every week but I think every two week grocery run and stock up on some things um and uh just basically stuff that is cheaper there than it is in town here in kuster we took you to the local grocery store well now we're going to take you to boring Wally world but also Rapid City um and we also have our appointment made to um get the hail damage checked out on our car so we're going to find out today hopefully today maybe and maybe we'll find out tomorrow but we're going to have the adjuster look at the car and um see if it might be totaled or get the estimate on what it's going to cost to get that fixed um and yeah and see if the car gets total if it gets total we most likely we are going to most likely buy the car back obviously we're going to keep the car the damage isn't that bad it's mostly cosmetic or it is cosmetic it's not mostly it's all cosmetic um so and we either you know just keep the money and keep the damage you know just keep the damage and not get it fixed or we get it fixed we'll see how that turns out but we will take you along with us so the best way or our favorite way to get uh Rapid City and the quickest way to get to Rapid City is to drive through um basically the northern part of Custer park or or I guess maybe not Northern because we don't take um Needles Highway that would probably be considered the Northern end of the park but but we take basically we drive through the middle of the park we go past two more of The Lodges um the next closest Lodge to where we are at Bluebell is Legion L and then we get to drive past the really historic Lodge um which is State Game Lodge the State Game Lodge is actually where president kage um would vacation um uh way back uh years ago so lot of history there um really beautiful Lodge beautiful area um it's also a great place um to see big horn sheep a lot of times in the morning or in the evening um you will see them uh like a herd of females and their babies out on out on the road um they like to lick the salt and the minerals off the um basically off the road so yes so if you want to see big horn sheep I highly suggest driving to the State Game Lodge area um probably in the morning most mostly in the morning is when I see them um not super early but you know early to midm morning great time to see the big horn sheep uh can almost always almost always see them on or near the road then it's also the place to go to if you want to do the Jeep rides in the park um State game Lodge and the Creekside Lodge which is a smaller Lodge next door to State game um I actually consider it as part of State game but they call it Creekside Creekside Lodge they do the Jeep rides through the park so much fun they know where the bison are so you're basically almost guaranteed to see bison um when you book those Jeep rods they know pretty much where they are and where most of the good animal sightings are so great thing to do in the park I think there's different trips you can do you can do early morning um rides or you can book The Last Ride of the day and that will take you um to the Bluebell Chuckwagon cookout so that's a lot of fun I think that costs a little extra to have that dinner included um but it's great time me and Chris have done it and uh yeah I look forward to it this year look forward yeah yeah we will be doing that this year um lots of fun there especially along with the blue Bill check wagon as well um but yeah beautiful area and that's the way that's to us the best way to get to Rapid City like I said earlier in the video it takes us about takes us about an hour to get to Rapid City mostly because we have to drive through the park but it's beautiful drive I don't I love it honestly probably the best hour drive to get to Walmart anywhere anywhere in the US oh you saying a half hour now no the second half hour is boring we're about the second yeah sorry it does so once we get out of the park and we get on Highway 79 it gets really flat and a prairie like and temperatures are always hotter it's very 10 15 hotter so yeah so Rapid City is basically it's north it's north of us and it's in it's in what you would call The Plains or the we call it the plains so it's not in the mountains so it's very flat not a lot to see there um and yes because of that because it's not in the mountains it can it's hot um so it can't get really hot in Rapid City whereas in kuster it stays much cooler um cuz we're higher elevation and uh yeah so pretty much the nicest prettiest half hour drive to get to Wally world in [Music] America I think so anyways we just finished shopping at Walmart and I didn't take the camera in because it's Walmart everyone has seen a Walmart has been inside of Walmart and wow Was it crazy busy in there my goodness yeah it took a longer longer trip than expected and now we have our appointment at 2:00 um to get the car looked at for the hail damage um it is 10 till 2 right now so we're waiting to get um a propane tank and I think Chris might be waiting for a while because this place is just it's slammed it's so busy it's is insane um but hopefully he gets that figured out in less than 10 minutes thankfully the hail repair place is not far from here um it's just a quick little 8 Minute 5 to 8 minute drive away um so yeah we uh we are on our way there next we just finished up all of our task in town in Rapid City craid city Chris is calling it craid City traffic was terrible today and we almost lady almost backed into us at the parking lot and uh yeah anyways got news on the car don't know if we want to share it quite yet well we don't yeah the guy looked at it the said it look pretty bad so we have an idea but he's he's not the insurance company so until the insurance company gets his report correct so we have a couple of days Progressive's going to look over what he wrote down um and what his estimate was and then tell us you know what's going on so got that all done and now we are taking the scenic grout back home the Custer State Park one of our favorite drives so scenic grout this is 16 right so it's part of um this is part of Iron Mountain Road yeah it feeds into it feeds into Iron Mountain Road so and this is when we Daydream and think about life and if we we had money life in the Black Hills this is where we would find a piece of property piece of property seasonally we could only do maybe mayun SE we would not want to do winter here we made it till the end of October last season and that was pushing it and that was a warm October right um we definitely wouldn't do winter but it would be a wonderful wonderful seasonal place to be here the end of spring all summer the first part of fall and this is really the are as nice as the park is um and there are some some pieces of property that b up right next to Custer s Park yeah this is more of like area we just we D dream like a lot of people are if we work hard and things go our way sometimes and God wills it then maybe one day maybe one day so I I enjoy this drive just uh just a drink day dream turn the music up roll the windows down yeah it's a rare thing that we talking to the camera on this road yeah yeah so well we have made it home and on the way out of craid City we picked up some delicious Thai food from my favorite Thai restaurant in town actually the only Thai restaurant in town but it's really good um really good Thai food there and uh I love Thai haven't had it in a while or I guess since Florida and then before that there's literally no Thai food can be found in Baja if there is a place somewhere I don't know of it um but yeah so love me some Thai so we picked up Thai food for dinner now we're going to go let the dogs out we did not take them with us today just because we had the um the hail appointment and because it was 97° and you know don't want to leave the dogs in the car when it's that hot definitely don't so they had to saay put in RV today about to let him out now you ready for crazy Wait no that's not going to happen crazy boy go potty buddy crazy Bo go go go potty got to go potty come on let's go potty that's a good boy he went potty hey come here your mama come here this is what he does sits on my feet well now it's time we're going to uh end this video right here we are we're going to take our delicious Thai food inside and just chill for the rest of the day it's been kind of a long day we got a lot done lots of groceries to unpack um because we you know we stocked up because hopefully we don't have to go back into town until August that's what we're hoping for so yeah you know got to unpack all that and then eat our food and watch some TV and just chill out for the rest of the day thanks for coming along with us an action-packed week brought us delicious food lots of wildlife beautiful drives and a fun new job there is no doubt that this is one of our favorite places to live and work if we have to