Of sorts. We took the bikes to Custer State Park and the Wildlife Loop... with the hopes of seeing some buffalo today.
A nice ride down the length of Iron Mountain Road (no, I didn't shoot any photos or video) to get to the park. A lovely day: blue sky, puffy white clouds, and not hot.
Spoiler Alert: Yeah, we saw buffalo!
After we got into the park, we stopped so I could put the camera on my bike. Onto the Wildlife Loop...
Not too far into the loop, the first of our "trifecta"...
Antelope! Yeah, right on the road.
We rode a while without seeing much, but the road is nice...
Then, some stopped traffic ahead of us... the begging burros...
We went quite a while after that, seeing no traffic coming at us. That is actually a good sign: it means that traffic ahead is stopped somewhere, and they are probably stopped to see some wildlife.
Yep - buffalo...
Lots of buffalo - I'm guessing a couple hundred, in two groups...
A successful outing! And a nice stop for a picnic lunch at the Blue Belle Lodge area. Then, a bunch more twisty roads, ending up riding by Mt Rushmore, an ice cream stop in Keystone, then Hwy 16 back to our home away from home.
A fine day of riding. Yes, I shot some video - I will be working on that this evening and tomorrow.
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