An Orca sighting!

A lovely day, another scooter ride.

Out the usual twisties...

We had a loose plan: stop and walk around Keystone; maybe have lunch; ride some more.  Yeah, that's about as detailed as we get.  We parked the scoots in Keystone and set out for a walk-about...

No trinkets or t-shirts that we needed, but Joan did point out: "Look - an Orca!"

Yep, a beaded Orca in the window of one of the tourist shops.  In the Black Hills.  Somewhere on the far side of 1,000 miles from the nearest Orca.  Not sure if there would be a big demand for that here.  We picked a place for lunch and started walking back there; one side of the street has a covered boardwalk (see a few photos above)... these people were sitting at an open air bar under that covered walk...

I haven't seen bar stools like those since we were in Terlingua, near Big Bend National Park.

Lunch was OK, but we were ready for more riding.  The obvious choice from here: Iron Mountain Road.  I wanted to experiment with my small, but very nice Lumix camera on the mount I usually use for the action cam.  That turned out to be a really bad idea...

It is painful to watch due to the camera shake - it makes me really appreciate just how effective the stabilization is on that inexpensive Akaso camera.  Just warning you that the video above isn't suited for any age viewer.  Really, it is that bad.  The Lumix has a Leica lens, which is a nice piece of glass... just not the right tool for this job.

I used the same camera for the stills in this post.  They are OK, but not up to the standards of the Nikon DSLR.

When used at anything other than wide angle, there is some "movement", even on stills.  Leaving the Black Hills National Forest lands...

Onto Playhouse Road, a county road...

It doesn't get the PR of Iron Mountain Road, but the riding is still nice... and almost no traffic.  More curvy roads on the way back to the coach...

As usual, we take turns taking the lead.  I think we have been able to do more riding these past two months than we have done in the past couple years... and truly enjoying it!