Tuesday August 5th - Spearfish Canyon - Rain Gear....

Today when we got up the weather looked a bit grim, so we decided to try to get a ride in early in hopes to beat the rain.

We road up what is called Spearfish Canyon, it was a beautiful ride, the canyon walls go vertical on both sides and the road is a set of very nice turns that just flow. We stopped at Bridal falls for a photo.

We completed the canyon ride to Deadwood for ice cream...John stuck his neck out and said it was very good..we were not disappointed. It was a great ride and we did not get wet.

We wanted to experience the downtown in the daytime and do some shopping so we stopped in Sturgis after the ride and planned to maybe do a ride after that.

There is much to see downtown and we probably spent more time than we planned browsing, then it started to rain. John and I looked at the radar and headed for the Harley store, June and I were clearly going to need rain gear. So we bit the bullet and both got gear at Harley pricing minus 10% such a deal.

Sturgis is all about Harley Davidson, but Indian was really making their presence known with large displays and a dealer in town. John and I registered to win a new Scout like the one I am sitting on, may the odds be in our favor.





We decided to have an early dinner and hope the rain passed....it did not. By the time we finished dinner it was pouring and we rode back to camp in a down pour, the rain gear did its job but our poor bikes where a mess since there is about a mile of dirt road to get to camp. We hunkered down for the evening in the camper since the wind came up and it rained for a few hours. Overall it was another good day despite the rain.