If you said, "Yogi Bear, from the Hanna-Barbera cartoons," you get 20 bonus points.
After getting our furry boy settled in after lunch, we went out on the scoots. Joan packed us a picnic lunch, and we headed south for Custer State Park. Nothing we haven't seen in the park, but the riding is good and we know we can find a picnic table.
Along the way, we stopped at the Iron Mountain Road Store for one last t-shirt each to enhance our wardrobe... we wound up picking the same shirt. Joan said, "I'll let you know when I'm going to wear mine so you can pick out something else." Good idea.
Leaving the store (above), we continued south on Iron Mountain Road...
Using the 360 camera for stills, I figured I'd toss in one of those "tiny planet" shots (above). Insta360 changed their firmware on their One R camera: the still photos are now rendered in HDR which takes a contrasty scene and makes multiple exposures to try for detail in the highs and lows... in the process, they eliminated the different fields of view on stills... so, what you get is pretty much a very wide angle view. You can crop in Photoshop or something similar after the fact, but it isn't the same. To me, this "upgrade" eliminated one of the things I liked about using the camera for stills. Progress.
Back to the ride...
I like images of the road view (above); probably why I enjoy shooting video. Coming into the east gate at Custer State Park...
We talked about stopping for our picnic near the State Game Lodge, then Joan saw a couple picnic tables at the entrance to the campground there - nice, a picnic spot with a view...
Lunch was nice. Wanting to get back to check on Rufus, we knew this wouldn't be a lengthy ride. After we ate, we decided to retrace some of our route...
Not long, and we got stopped behind some traffic...
If you look to the left of the motorhome, there are several mountain goats.
Rolling again...
Oh, and that motorhome I mentioned above - they turned off the main road... onto Iron Mountain Road. Yes, there are signs telling about narrow and low tunnels ahead. Shouldn't be a surprise. We did get stuck behind them while they tried to keep their rig between the yellow and white lines on this twisty road. They went right on by several pull-outs, even though traffic was building up behind them. I flashed my lights to get their attention, so maybe they'd look behind them to see what was stacking up...
Only took about 3 more pull-out passes when they finally got the hint. We were first in line behind them, so we had some pretty decent, uncrowded road ahead of us; finally.
I shot some video beyond that point, so maybe I'll do something with that another time.
The only other "wildlife" we encountered on the way back was a herd of cattle on both sides, and in the middle, of the road...
Easy cruising the rest of the way back...
Since you may want to know: Rufus seems to be better; good apatite and no sign of the drippity shits (medical terminology).
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