Bridal Veil Falls, Spearfish Canyon, SD

Whitewood, SD

Any easy drive brought us to the town of Winterwood to visit Mary and Steve Tebben. We passed a flock of wild turkeys and a herd of deer both in their neighborhood.

They took us down in to Deadwood, SD for happy hour at the Marble Palace and dinner at the Deadwood Social Club.

Road Trip to SD

Sid and I left Texas Monday morning to drive to South Dakota. We plowed through TX, OK, and KS stopping in Broken Bow, NB for the night in a great little hotel, the Arrow Hotel.

Foundation wall

They are building a new farm house, the first two story structure is roughed out but we spent the day building the foundation wall out of rocks and then helping pour the concrete and placing a pillar for the roof.

Livestock

We have half a dozen, free-range chickens and roosters to make sure we wake up early. There are four pigs and a farm dog, Estrellita. Estrellita has freaky, pretty white eyes.

La Finca Villa Luna

We've gone up in the highlands to stay on a Eco-agriculture farm. We've been tending the coffee plants which are interspersed with banana, sugar cane, passion fruit and a variety of other things including yucca (which we cooked for dinner).

The Charles Darwin Research Station

We spent the morning wandering around the research station. It takes about four hours but was incredibly interesting. They are breeding a few different species of the giant tortoises and releasing them back to their appropriate islands. Of the 15 original species only 11 remain but the breeding programs are making good headway.