I know these are out of order, but I wanted to keep you informed on our last trip in July. Gary had two days of vacation after a mistake on the store's part. When we went to Deadwood in June with the HOG Chapter, the store didn't credit him his two days of vacation, he got no pay. So he took his two days the last weekend in July.
We decided to go to Deadwood for some gambling fun, Jackpot is too far to drive for just a weekend, but Deadwood is just down the road. This time we stayed at the KOA in a cabin. It was half the cost of a motel room and with the Day's of 76 Rodeo going on, prices were high.
After the stress of Mom's 3/4 of a Century Celebration over it was time for me to just relax. We left Hardin on Thursday morning and got into Deadwood around 3:00 in the afternoon. We stopped in Gillette for a bit and then at the rest stop just as we got into South Dakota. Got checked in and things loaded out of the truck and in the cabin. The cabin was nice, the ones here have small flat screen tv in them.
The KOA in Deadwood is nice with camping tiered in the hillside. Our cabin was off to the side a bit and at first we had a hard time finding it, things are not clearly marked. There is an old yellow house just off to the side and that is where the cabin area is. It looks like somebody's property the way things are set up. This KOA has a shuttle that will run you into town and leaves on the hour from 11am-10pm. We took the shuttle into town several times.
The shuttle drops you off at the Silverado and you just walk down main street. Deadwood does have parking meters in their parking lots, but only charge from 8am-8pm, so the free shuttle was great. After 8 pm we got in the pickup and found great parking.
It was fun just playing tourist, we took the Original Deadwood Tour which gave us the history of Deadwood and took us to Moriah Cemetary where we saw the final resting places of Wild Bill Hickock and Calamity Jane. The tour guide made it fun, he reminded me to our tour guide Bernie in Ireland. It was very informative. The tour is just over an hour and it cost us $8 per person because we were both over 50. Don't tell them I lied. In fact they didn't even ask how old I was, Gary just paid $16. We got coupons for the Morning Star Casino which is owned by Kevin Costner, so we ate lunch with our coupons.
We tried to get done before the parade started but that didn't happen, so we ended up watching the parade. When we first got into town, we stopped at a visitor center to see what was happening and the people were excited to tell us about the western parade. We didn't really want to watch a western parade as we have seen plenty of those. This parade had only two floats and the rest horses. To our surprise Al Sargent from Hardin had his Belgian horses and wagon in the parade.
We had fun gambling in the different casinos and we both got players cards for two of them. Ate good food, had some free drinks and we came home with some money. Didn't win big, but still came home with a little bit more than when we left.
It was a nice get away.
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