Today Judy and I explored more of the Black Hills looking for quilt shops, antique stores, etc. We had a wonderful drive about the country and had lunch at a wonderful coffee cafe in Spearfish, SD. The guys, Jim, Mason and Ed went looking for RV parts, hardware stores and also found a great little local bar called Gunners in Sturgis. Judy and I stopped off to meet up with the guys and they (the guys) had quite a party going on in the bar. It seems earlier in the day, Ed met a woman (Val) who owned the local grocery store the day before and struck up a conversation and when the guys got to the bar, Val and her husband (Mark) were at Gunners, so they all struck up quite the conversation learning all about who's who in Sturgis. Then the owner of the bar (Gary) came in and turns out he is originally from West Virginia, so don't you know the group got cozier. Gary told us overnight the town will go from 6,000 to 500,000 people. It's like they drop in out of the sky. We are starting to see lots of bikers arriving now; in fact our campground is just about full. Anyway, we had a great time with them and we ended up inviting them out for a cookout at our RV campground for Friday. We then took Ed down to Deadwood so he could see the western town and we all had dinner at the Buffalo Steakhouse, where they had Entertainment while we ate. After dinner we walked out onto the street and they were reinacting the capture of the man who killed Wild Bill Hitchkock. Ed really got a kick out of that. The picture above is of all of us standing in front of Kevin Cosner's bar with a Bill Cody reenactor. Judy and I found our spots at a favorite slot machines and the guys sat out on bench watching the biker babes. Hope everyone is doing well. The temperature here is now a comfortable 80 degrees. Until next time.......
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