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31st Stop - Hot Springs (SD)

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Blog Post #41 Stay: July 21, 2025 We only stayed in Hot Springs, SD for one night, but it was one of our favorite stays! When we arrived at the Harvest Host farm (Black Hills Farm Life / TuTara Farm and Ranch), their electrical connection was showing as "not grounded" on our surge protector / analyzer, so we didn't connect to power, which means no AC. It was over 90 degrees, so we had zero desire to stay cooped up in the trailer for the afternoon. I looked on Google Maps for nearby water and found Cascade Springs and Cascade Falls just a couple miles up the road! We threw our swimsuits in the truck and booked it up the mountain.  We love finding hidden gems that usually only locals go enjoy, and these were definitely sweet little hidden gems! We had the springs all to ourselves when we arrived. Then another family arrived and the kids all enjoyed catching the little fish with our nets.  It was interesting to hear from this other couple that they had lived here originally,...
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30th Stop - Badlands (SD)

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Blog Post #40 - Written November 2, 2025 Stay: July 19-20, 2025 We learned a lesson about Google Maps and big national parks at this stay. We picked a campground that appeared close to the Badlands National Park on the map, only to find when we got here that it was about 45 minutes away from an entrance, and then of course you have to drive all the way through the park, which is probably another hour or so (at least) of driving. Good thing we're getting used to driving and learning to love it!  ;) We stayed at the SOBOS Campground, southwest of the park. It was a nice enough campground and the kids made some more grandparent-friends haha. The star-gazing probably would've been pretty good, but for the awesome lightning storm! We like storms, and this one was pretty neat. Unfortunately, our phone cameras aren't cool enough to capture all the lightning in all its glory, but here's a video .  Our first morning, we went for a little walk down in the valley, beneath our camp...
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