You'll never guess where we went today......

It all started with dinner.  The mashed potatoes started to look like the postcards we had just picked up.  With each scrape of her fork, Denna made them look more and more like something else.  It was the infamous Devil's Tower and we felt obligated to go to the real thing - and we did :)

Here are the pictures to prove it!

Amazingly, this chunk of rock looks different from every angle and we had a chance to see it all the way around.

Tomorrow we hit the road again and we're headed from the Black Hills to the Badlands (obviously not the original names the Indians gave the areas).  We are travelling through Belle Fourche, Spearfish, Deadwood and should hit Hill City, South Dakota, late in the afternoon.

Oh, we forgot to say that we have an extra passenger with us for the trip.  He was a gift from my folks for my retirement (cause he looked like he was already retired!) and we promised him that he'd see the world with us.  His name is Gnorman and he's a gnome - a travelling gnome.  We thought we'd share some of the places he visited.

Gnorman the Gnome

He had a busy day today. We'd like to show some of the pictures we've taken of him along the way and give you an idea of how retirement is treating him.