Today is cold but sunny day. I scheduled going to the Mount Rushmore National Memorial.
I puttered around doing errands like mailing postcards, filling the water, going to the supermarket, and dumping the toilet canister.
I drove to Mount Rushmore. It is an impressive entrance. It is a lovely place to see the carved presidents and learn the history.
After the tour and museum, I did the Presidents Trail which is a hike around the grounds giving you different views of the presidents.
After this I wanted to go on a hike so I went to the Black Hills National Park and hiked Hippie Hole South. It seemed like an easy hike but boy was I wrong. The hike started out easy but very quickly started to descend for very sharply down to a stream. I passed some girls on the way down and they said it’s all good until you have to come back. Well they were right. It was very strenuous and difficult to hike back up the rocky hill. I didn’t go the entire way because I looked down and saw a tick on my pant leg. That was all I needed.
Later that evening I was watching TV on my iPad when I looked down and there was a tick on my iPad screen. I quickly removed the tick and put him outside. I then became very paranoid that there were other ticks in the bed. I have done a very thorough search and took a shower when I got home from the hike so I was surprised to see the tick.
Until tomorrow…
