Tuesday, July 10 – We moved the motorhome over to Rapid City, SD, this morning, a short one-hour drive. Where's the rapids? We imagined the city having rapids much like Spokane, WA. Now someone tell us, how did Rapid City get its name?
We are staying at the Rapid City Elks Lodge. There are ten sites with electric and water. We will need to use the Flying J dump station when we leave. It is only a short drive from the Lodge and we need fuel in the motorhome anyway. The sites are a bit tight but will be fine for our two-day stay.
Site 5
Looking right.
Looking left.
We walked all over the historic district of town, taking pictures of many of the bronze president statues on every street corner. Some of the statues were very well done, but others were a bit iffy to us. Marsha just loves stuff like this.
So you think you know your presidents. (We are referring to our USA followers.) Here is little quiz. We will start you off very easy and then get much more difficult. The answers are way down at the bottom of the blog. No cheating. Remember, you click on any picture to make it larger.
Now for some fun.
It's a very nice historic downtown with most of the old building on about six city blocks of the historical district are still intact and thriving as unique shops and, of course, neat taverns. Marsha even found a place to get her hair done!
In Memorial Park there are two 12 ft. segments of the original Berlin Wall.
Main Street Square is a fun-filled public space that features special events, arts and culture, live concerts, seasonal ice skating and interactive fountains.
Main Street Square.
Downtown features an entire alley to any and all who you like to leave their artistic mark.
Painter's Alley.
1919 Original Elks Lodge and Opera House.
1889 Buell Building.
Left: 1915 Rapid City Fire Department Building. Right: 1886 Clower Building
While Marsha was getting her hair done, Paul was home trouble shooting a satellite TV problem. Upon arriving here, we could not get our Winegard Traveler automatic satellite dish to lock on the satellites. Paul called Direct TV. They said it was an alignment problem, and the automatic dish would have to be adjusted. Paul then called Bill Adams, the gentleman who originally installed the dish over two-years ago, to get his input. After some tests and trouble shooting from Bill, and a couple trips up on the roof to switch some wires, Paul was able to get the satellite up and running. The fix solved the problem, and it should not reoccur.
We then drove out to the Chapel in the Hills. We will post more on that stop in the next blog.
Correct answers to the Presidents.
How did you do? We did not get a photo of every president, but if you would like to see some of the other presidents, please click here.
Thanks for stopping by. Hope to see y'all back real soon. Have a great day!
Great post. Loved your quiz on the presidents - that was fun. I enjoyed looking at all your pres photos. There is some neat architecture there. Is it really hot?
ReplyDeleteGlad you got the dish fixed. That's no fun climbing up and down off the roof like that. At least you didn't have to stand up there and hold it in various positions while Marsha evaluated the picture quality on the t.v. :)) LOL
ReplyDeleteWe just have to visit Rapid City next time we're in the area. You've really piqued our interest with today's entry! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI'm reading the blog for enjoyment. Don't make me exercise my brain too much. Loved the pictures, as always.
ReplyDeletedidn't do very well on your president quiz!..being Canadian and all..got a few of them though :)
ReplyDeleteI didn't do very well on the quiz and I'm an American. Guess I need to go back to history class. We've never spent much time in Rapid City. There's a creek that runs through the town that was called Rapid Creek. Therefore, Rapid City.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed seeing parts of Rapid City that we missed when we were there. There's so much to see and do in that area!
ReplyDeleteThis Canadian got all of the easy ones and three of the harder ones. Now maybe I will do it with Prime Ministers of Canada :)
ReplyDeleteYou're lucky you got a site with only 10 available. I would think that place would have been overflowing this time of year. Great blog but I agree with Shoeless Joe ... at this time of the night my brain doesn't exercise.
ReplyDeletei moved there the year after Rapid City had a devastating flood in 1972, a lot of rebuilding has made it what it is today.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing you experience in Rapid City! We are so glad you enjoyed yourself. Your pictures are great! Feel free to share some on our Facebook page for our other fans to see. Hope you come visit again soon- have a great day!
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I may need sometime in the future to ask you what you did on the dish since we have the same dish.
ReplyDeleteI regret not having time to peruse the Presidential Statues when we were in Rapid City. . .I may hafta return and correct that. . .thanks for sharing. . .love it!
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