We arrived in Sturgis, SD on Saturday, Jul 26th. We are here for the famous Sturgis motorcycle rally. They expect 500,000 bikers this year. We are staying at No Name City RV park, our third visit here now. It's a very nice quiet campground about 2 miles from downtown Sturgis. We no sooner got here and found out from our friends, Val and Ryan that there was a retirement party in honor of Dean the meat cutter at Mier's Grocery at Dean's house. We quickly got situated, walked the dogs and made the party! It was good to see Val and Ryan again, as well as Dean and his wife, Mary. We met them last year at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and they took us under their wings and showed us all the fun places to go to in town and of course introduced us to Gunner's, our favorite biker bar, as well as a lot of their friends. Sunday we took a day of much needed rest and fun in the sun by the pool. Monday, Jim and I went to get our concert tickets for later in the week. We went to the Buffalo Chip to get tickets for Kelly Pickler and Kid Rock. Sen. McCain will also be here as a tribute to veterans. We also got tickets at the Rock N Rally Glenco Campground for Kenny Chesney. Both of these campgrounds are know for their rowdiness and anything goes atmosphere. Well as we were leaving Glenco, we passed by this old man who had just set up his pop-up camper and was resting in a chair totally nude. He was sitting in a chair facing the road with all his glory hanging loose and just a grinning and waving. He had a bunch of beads hanging off the fence in front of him - I don't know if he was collecting beads from passer-bys or giving out beads to anyone who flashed him! Tuesday, Jim and I rode to Deadwood (2nd pic) for lunch and to try our luck at Blackjack. Deadwood is an old western mining town which was established in 1876 when gold was discovered here. The town's saloons are much the same as they were back in the 1800's. It's pretty neat. We ate at this restaurant called the #10 Saloon. It is the saloon where Wild Bill Hickhock was killed. They did a little skit where this guy playing Wild Bill gave a little history of his life, then they did a re-enactment of his fatal day. Jim got asked to play the saloon owner, who was one of the card players that day. In the pic above, it looks like Jim has no pants on but he did have shorts on but it was hilarious to see his hairy legs sticking out of his jacket! Tomorrow, Jim and I are going for a bike ride to Moonshine Gulch. We are trying to find places to go that we didn't see last year and Moonshine Gulch is one of them.
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