Sunday August 3rd, Travel and arrive Sturgis, South Dakota

We left Oshkosh about 7:15 PM after packing up after the air show and headed west....with 800ish mile s to cover we wanted to get some of it in on Saturday.

We drove until around midnight which got us to Rochester, MN where we pulled into a truck stop and slept until about 5AM, got back on the road and drove I90 across MN and SD, which is pretty boring until you hit the black hills on the west side of SD.

We arrived at Sturgis about 4PM (Mountain Time) and my friend John was here waiting for us. 

We are staying at the Hog Heaven Campground, the people are very nice and is is basically find a place to park and call it camp, much like the EAA campground except less organized (maybe even cleaner tho, the campground – not the airstrip).

We also called June's niece Jennifer and husband Joe, they live about 30 mins from Sturgis and they jumped on their Harley and came to meet us. We had driven all day but were itching to ride the ½ ton machine we just hauled 2000 miles, so we decided we would ride out to Deadwood, a rather famous town from the old days. It was a short enough ride and had some appeal including “The Midnight Star” a casino/restaurant bought by Kevin Costner in 1991, Saloon number 10 where Wild Bill Hickock was shot and some other neat bars. 

It was good to get out and see Jennifer and Joe.

 It was a good start to our Sturgis visit, tomorrow we expect to ride to Joe and Jenn's house and then take a ride south from there up towards Rushmore.